Wine & Gold Win Ugly, Take Fifth Straight

Wrap-Up -- Over the course of an 82-game season, sometimes a team has to take an ugly win when they get one.

Aside from LeBron James, the Cavaliers didn’t have their A-game – trailing the Lottery-bound Nets at intermission – but still had enough in the tank to close out a stubborn Brooklyn squad and earn their fifth straight victory, 121-114, on Sunday afternoon at Barclays Center.

With nine games to play in the season, the Wine & Gold are still trying to get healthy, but that was still not the case on Sunday – with Jeff Green missing the contest with the flu and Kyle Korver still away after the death of his younger brother. Even without two of their steadiest veterans, Cleveland topped the…