{"id":41138,"date":"2025-05-10T07:55:17","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T07:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/10\/nba-playoffs-cavs-take-now-or-never-game-3-from-pacers-as-injured-stars-return\/"},"modified":"2025-05-10T07:55:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T07:55:17","slug":"nba-playoffs-cavs-take-now-or-never-game-3-from-pacers-as-injured-stars-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/10\/nba-playoffs-cavs-take-now-or-never-game-3-from-pacers-as-injured-stars-return\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA playoffs: Cavs take \u2018now or never\u2019 Game 3 from Pacers as injured stars return"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Cavaliers beat Indiana 126-104 in Game 3 of East semis<\/li>\n<li>Thunder defeat Nuggets 113-104 in overtime thriller<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Donovan Mitchell had 43 points and nine rebounds, and the finally full-strength Cleveland Cavaliers beat Indiana 126-104 on Friday night to cut the Pacers\u2019 lead to 2-1 in the Eastern Conference semi-finals.<\/p>\n<p>The road team has won all three games in the series, and the Pacers will have another chance to break that trend Sunday in Game 4.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/may\/10\/nba-playoffs-scores-friday-night-games\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cavaliers beat Indiana 126-104 in Game 3 of East semis Thunder defeat Nuggets 113-104 in overtime thriller Donovan Mitchell had 43 points and nine rebounds, and the finally full-strength Cleveland Cavaliers beat Indiana 126-104 on Friday night to cut the Pacers\u2019 lead to 2-1 in the Eastern Conference semi-finals. The road team has won all &#8230; <a title=\"NBA playoffs: Cavs take \u2018now or never\u2019 Game 3 from Pacers as injured stars return\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/10\/nba-playoffs-cavs-take-now-or-never-game-3-from-pacers-as-injured-stars-return\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about NBA playoffs: Cavs take \u2018now or never\u2019 Game 3 from Pacers as injured stars return\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}