Betting Results:
Head to Head: Cavaliers, odds 1.19
Line: Cavaliers (-10.5), odds 1.929
Total Points: Over (215.5), odds 1.913

Pre-game Prediction:
Cavaliers, 80.8%
Nets, 19.2%

Evan Mobley scores 21 to lead the Cavaliers over the Nets 130-101

By PAT PICKENS AP Sports Writer The Associated Press NEW YORK

NEW YORK (AP) — Evan Mobley scored 21 points, Caris LeVert added 19 and the Cleveland Cavaliers rolled to a 130-101 win over the Brooklyn Nets on Monday night.

Donovan Mitchell had 18 points and five assists, and Georges Niang had 17 points and nine rebounds for Cleveland (23-4), which won its second straight and for the sixth time in seven games.

Cameron Johnson led Brooklyn with 22 points and five assists, and Day’Ron Sharpe had 15 points and seven rebounds. The Nets (10-16) lost their third straight and fell for the sixth time in seven games.

Kenny Atkinson returned as a head coach to Brooklyn with the Cavaliers. The 57-year-old led the Nets for four seasons.

Takeaways

Cavaliers: Cleveland, which entered play ranking first in the NBA in field-goal percentage (50.3) and 3-point field-goal percentage (39.9), shot 53.1% from the field. They had 33 assists on 43 made baskets.

Nets: Playing their first game since point guard Dennis Schroder was traded to Golden State, the Nets shot just 42% from the field and scored a season-low 40 first-half points. Brooklyn scored nearly as many points in the third quarter (37) as it did in the first 24 minutes.

Key moment

Brooklyn scored the game’s first seven points, but the Cavaliers closed the first quarter with a 32-5 run and led by 20.

Key stat

The Cavaliers have scored at least 130 points in seven games, which already is a single-season franchise record.

This is how we previewed the game...

The season's best team make the relatively short hop over to Brooklyn for a one-off game, which perhaps surprisingly is not part of any mini series. The Cavs have a 22-4 record, the Nets a 10-15 record.

We've taken a look at some of the best tipping sites on the web to bring you their predictions and headlines.

Dimers - forecasting a 113-105 win for Cleveland, with a lean towards a Nets +9.5 bet.
Clutch Points - Cavaliers to cover the spread in an easy win.
Pickswise - tbc
Sportskeeda - tbc
Betting Odds - predicting a 113-105 win for the Cavs, tipping Nets +9.5, and Under 218.5 game total.
Sportsline - simulated a 117-110 score in favour of Cleveland, and an Under 218.5 bet. Interestingly, also tipping a bet on Nets on the moneyline at 4.61, citing the implied probability (from the odds) being 21.7%, but their models predicting Nets would win 34% of the games in this exact situation.

Like Sportsline, we think the Nets are over priced for this game, you only have to look back a few weeks when they went 3-0 beating the Kings, Warriors and most impressively the Suns in a 4-day period, to see that they have that potential. Our boffins estimate that Brooklyn should be winning 30% of the time in this game, and with the odds setting that probability at just over 20%, that is a value bet worth having.

We recommend a 1-point bet - it'll probably lose, but we're priced in here,

Our tip lost, but that was expected, we still did the right thing by looking for the value where we saw it.

Our Player Pro tip is further down this page