Cavs dominate Sixers
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What happened in the Cavs vs. Sixers game?
Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily presented by Amazon Prime for January 15th, 2026. I'm Dave DeFore here with Zena Kata coming up. The Cavs win big. The Kings win their third straight. Got to break them up. And we talked to Tony Jones about the Sixers side of that Cavs game and Embiid's future.
Good morning, everybody. Good morning, Zena. How are you?
I'm wonderful. Another lovely night of hoops.
You know, OK, some of the games were good. Some of them were bad. I will. I want to tip the cap to my guy, Bryce Zenzibar. Forty three points off the bench. Absurd shooting performance for the for the Utah Jazz in what was a perfect tank loss. to the Chicago Bulls, right?
How did the Kings achieve their third straight win?
I mean, it was just they were competitive. They were all in there. Their young guy, Keontae George, misses a big shot at the end. Bryce Sensabaugh was ridiculous and also only two assists. That's a real Hooper stat line right there. 43 points, two assists. I love that. Speaking of Hoopers, the Cavs absolutely were hooping all over the Sixers last night. And we're going to talk the Sixers side of the loss after the break with Tony Jones and some of the bigger picture stuff with the Sixers. But we got to hit the Cavs because we've been hammering the Cavs for looking soft and for being low energy themselves like the Sixers were last night. And frankly, they came out and they looked so good. They really, I thought, put on a clinic with the way that they played.
not only defended, but the way that they were getting into the paint and scoring against the Sixers. This is more of what we expected this season from them. And I need to note that Darius Garland had a really nice game, 20 points, seven assists. They were plus 10 in his 23 minutes. He left the game with a foot injury. So as we're praising the Cavs, they're finally starting to get their pieces together. Down goes Darius Garland again. And that's a whole nother conversation.
Yeah, the Cleveland Cavaliers came out and made this a track meet immediately. And Philadelphia was just not ready at the line. They didn't hear the gun go off. They were groggy and slow to start. And you saw a little bit of not only Cleveland's offense running so well, it was... Truly, Philly's defense just didn't match. So I don't know how much it was a factor of whether the offense was so much spectacular from the Cavs versus just the physicality not being met by the Sixers. But we're going to have to break that down with Tony Jones.
Yeah, they also went 20 of 46, the Cavs, 20 of 46 from three. You're not going to lose a ton of games shooting like that.
That's a theme we're going to get into for tonight. Because the games that were won, threes were a major factor.
Yeah, they kind of got hot. Speaking of threes, the Kings have now won three straight. And they're not beating bums, Zena. They beat the Rockets. They beat the Lakers. And last night, they beat the Knicks. Now, a lot of people are going to point and they're going to say, Jalen Brunson left this game with an ankle injury. We'll get an update on that, I'm assuming, sometime today. He only played five minutes, Zena. But to me, I say, well, OG Ananobi, Carl Anthony Towns, Josh Hart, Mikael Bridges, that's not enough to beat the Kings?
Right. That's a tough question. And we're starting to... Put a spotlight on Cat because this is now the second kind of like empty calorie game, right? Have you ever heard of those where it's just like you burned a lot of minutes, you played 22 minutes, and you get 13 points, four rebounds, one assist. That's a workout. It's not a basketball game, right? And we know what he's capable of. when Jalen Brunson is out but we didn't see him step up we didn't see him take on that gravity and you saw the complete opposite on the other side of the ball from his former teammate was like you didn't want me bro y'all didn't want me The Knicks didn't want me. Don't worry. I'll put up the 20 points that you expect, which is what Cat typically averages, 21 points.
But I mentioned two games now we've seen. He did this against Detroit.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What happened in the Cavs vs. Sixers game?
0:08–0:59
2
How did the Kings achieve their third straight win?
0:59–4:27
3
What are the implications of the Nuggets' success without Nikola Jokić?
4:27–4:42
4
What insights does Tony Jones provide on the Sixers' performance?
4:42–10:01
5
How did Joel Embiid perform against the Cavs?
10:01–26:37