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LeBron James, Kyrie Irving lead Cavaliers past Magic, 99-90
CLEVELAND -- LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers got a late scare, but their winning streak over the Orlando Magic remained intact.

James scored 21 points, Kyrie Irving added 19 and Cleveland beat Orlando for the 15th straight time, 99-90 on Saturday night.

Cleveland brought a nine point lead into the fourth quarter, but the Magic got as close as four in the final minutes.

Then Irving took over, hitting two straight 3-pointers and scoring 10 points in the quarter as the NBA champion Cavaliers improved to 3-0. They haven't lost to the Magic since Nov. 23, 2012, in Orlando.

Cleveland coach Tyronn Lue was unhappy the Cavaliers didn't put the game away earlier against an 0-3 team.

"I thought we let our guard down because of their record, and not playing them as a good team," he said. "They're struggling right now but they have a good team and we didn't respect that."

"Kyrie was able to knock a few down in the fourth quarter when we needed it the most," James said.

"We leave Kyrie Irving open, and he's the only person you can't leave open out there," Orlando center Bismack Biyombo said.

Kevin Love came up one rebound shy of his third straight double-double but still scored 18 points with 9 rebounds, Tristan Thompson grabbed 14 boards and Iman Shumpert chipped in with 10 points of the Cavs bench.

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Orlando Magic (0-3) at Cleveland Cavaliers (3-0)
Oct 29, 2016 1 2 3 4 Final Orlando 25 16 23 26 90 Cleveland 20 21 32 26 99 Top Performers Orlando Magic Evan Fournier - 26 pts, 3 ast, 4 stl Nikola Vucevic - 16 pts, 15 reb, 3 blk Cleveland Cavaliers LeBron James - 21 pts, 8 reb, 7 ast, 3 stl, 2 blk Kevin Love - 18 pts, 9 reb	Team Stats Comparison ORL CLE FG Made-Att 34-86 36-84 3PT Made-Att 7-25 10-30 FT Made-Att 15-21 17-20 Rebounds 52 49 Assists 26 24 Turnovers 11 11 Steals 9 6 Blocks 6 4
Orlando Magic STARTERS MIN FG 3PT FT REB AST STL BLK TO PTS Serge Ibaka, PF 35 4-11 2-3 0-0 6 0 1 0 1 10 Aaron Gordon, SF 30 4-8 0-1 0-0 8 7 2 2 1 8 Nikola Vucevic, C 29 4-9 0-0 8-11 15 1 1 3 2 16 Evan Fournier, SG 32 10-24 4-11 2-2 1 3 4 0 0 26 Elfrid Payton, PG 29 3-7 0-0 0-2 3 7 0 0 2 6 BENCH MIN FG 3PT FT REB AST STL BLK TO PTS Jodie Meeks, SG 16 4-12 1-5 1-1 1 0 0 0 1 10 Bismack Biyombo, C 23 3-6 0-0 3-4 10 3 1 0 1 9 C.J. Watson, PG 12 1-3 0-2 1-1 2 1 0 0 1 3 Jeff Green, SF 18 1-4 0-2 0-0 4 1 0 1 0 2 Steven Zimmerman, C 1 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 D.J. Augustin, PG 15 0-2 0-1 0-0 2 3 0 0 2 0 C.J. Wilcox, SG D N P Mario Hezonja, SF D N P
Cleveland Cavaliers STARTERS MIN FG 3PT FT REB AST STL BLK TO PTS Kevin Love, PF 33 8-13 2-4 0-0 9 2 1 0 0 18 LeBron James, SF 35 8-18 0-2 5-6 8 7 3 2 6 21 Tristan Thompson, C 32 2-3 0-0 0-1 14 1 2 0 2 4 J.R. Smith, SG 25 3-8 0-5 1-1 3 2 0 0 0 7 Kyrie Irving, PG 38 6-17 3-8 4-5 2 5 0 0 2 19 BENCH MIN FG 3PT FT REB AST STL BLK TO PTS Iman Shumpert, SG 23 3-7 2-4 2-2 3 4 0 2 1 10 Channing Frye, C 16 3-7 2-3 0-0 5 1 0 0 0 8 Kay Felder, PG 11 2-2 1-1 1-1 1 1 0 0 0 6 Mike Dunleavy, SF 14 1-6 0-3 2-2 0 0 0 0 0 0 Richard Jefferson, SF 13 0-3 0-0 2-2 4 1 0 0 0 2 DeAndre Liggins, SG D N P James Jones, SF D N P Jordan McRae, SG D N P