Preview: Golden State Warriors vs. Cleveland Cavaliers - prediction, team news, form guide

The Golden State Warriors and the Cleveland Cavaliers are successful enactment for the past clip successful 2024 erstwhile they spell caput to caput astatine the Chase Center connected Tuesday. 

Having mislaid each of the past 3 regular-season meetings betwixt the 2 teams, the Warriors volition caput into the midweek clash looking to get 1 implicit the visitors and adjacent retired the twelvemonth connected a affirmative note. 

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The Golden State Warriors returned to winning to ways connected Saturday greeting erstwhile they dug heavy successful the 4th fourth to unafraid a 109-105 triumph implicit the Phoenix Suns astatine the Chase Center. 

Having dropped a season-high 34 points against the Los Angeles Clippers conscionable 24 hours earlier, Jonathan Kuminga led the Warriors successful scoring with 34 erstwhile again portion Stephen Curry tallied 22 points connected 9-of-22 shooting. 

This was a much-needed effect for the Golden State Warriors, who had suffered 3 defeats from their erstwhile 3 outings, losing against the Indiana Pacers, the Los Angeles Lakers and the Clippers,

Despite the effect against the Suns, it has been a mostly dissapointing adjacent to the twelvemonth for Steve Kerr's men, who are connected a 4-16 tally since November 24, having picked up 12 wins from the 15 matches to commencement the campaign.  

This mediocre tally of results has seen the Golden State Warriors plunge to a 16-15 grounds from their 31 matches to beryllium 10th successful the Western Conference standings, conscionable supra the Suns extracurricular the play-in qualifying places. 

While the Warriors volition look to unafraid back-to-back victories for the archetypal clip successful implicit 5 weeks, they volition person to beryllium astatine their champion against an opposing broadside who person won each of the past 3 regular-season meetings the teams since a 120-114 decision successful January 2023. 

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Elsewhere, high-flying  Cleveland Cavaliers turned successful a ascendant violative show connected Saturday greeting erstwhile they stormed to a 149-135 triumph implicit the Denver Nuggets astatine the Ball Arena. 

The Cavs knocked down a season-high 23 3-pointers arsenic 4 of their 5 starters finished with astatine slightest 20 points, led by level wide Donovan Mitchell's 33, portion Jarrett Allen tallied a 22-point 10-rebound double-double to descend the Nuggets. 

With the triumph astatine the Ball Arena, Cleveland person present recorded 5 games successful which 4 players scored 20+ points this season, the highest tally successful the NBA, arsenic first-year caput manager Kenny Atkinson continues to stamp his sanction successful the league. 

The Cavaliers caput into Tuesday's clash connected a sizzling six-game winning streak and person won 10 of their astir caller 11 matches since suffering 2 back-to-back defeats against the Atlanta Hawks successful November's double-header. 

Atkinson's men pb the league successful tract extremity percent (50.6) and are the second-highest scoring broadside per crippled this play (122.7) arsenic they beryllium apical of the Eastern Conference array with a 27-4 grounds from their 31 matches.

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Team News

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The Golden State Warriors stay without the services of Gary Payton, who considered day-to-day and volition assessed adjacent week aft sustaining a eft calf strain against the Lakers connected Boxing Day. 

Moses Moody missed the triumph implicit the Suns astatine the play done a genu wounded and is simply a uncertainty for Tuesday's matchup portion Brandin Podziemski has been sidelined with a little abdominal strain. 

Kuminga has been a agleam spark for the Warriors successful caller weeks, averaging 27 points crossed the past 4 games, and the 22-year-old volition beryllium looking to marque his people erstwhile again. 

On the wounded front, the Cavs stay without Isaac Okoro, who has missed each of the past 4 matches since sustaining a enarthrosis wounded against the Brooklyn Nets connected December 17. 

Dean Wade shook disconnected a close genu soreness arsenic helium dropped 11 points successful 26 minutes of enactment against the Nuggets and the 28-year-old should diagnostic astatine the Chase Arena.  

Golden State Warriors imaginable starting 5:
Schroder, Curry, Jackson-Davis, Green, Wiggins

Cleveland Cavaliers imaginable starting 5:
Garland, Mitchell, Allen, Wade, 

We say: Cleveland Cavaliers to triumph by 5+ points.

A batch has changed since the Warriors' clash against Cleveland backmost successful a November, erstwhile they went into that clash with a 7-1 grounds earlier suffering a 136-117 defeat. The Cavs are presently firing connected each cylinders and we are backing them to marque it 4 consecutive regular-season victories against the Warriors. 

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