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Wizards Down New-Look Cavs, Sealed with a Kiss

Oubre blew a kiss to the Cavs bench pic.twitter.com/nGb5dJOsg9

— Rudy Gersten (@DCBarno) February 23, 2018

It was a long All-Star break, especially for the “new-look” Cleveland Cavaliers, winners of four straight following a dramatic series of trades that revamped the team’s supporting cast. And the Cavs took the Wizards to the mat in the early going of last night’s eventual Wizards victory. Building a double-digit lead that floated between 10 and 11 points (once stretching to 12), it was mostly the long-time Cavs, rather than the newcomers, that punished the Wizards: LeBron James shot 72 percent for the game, J.