Cavaliers’ cap off record-breaking night with first NBA Cup victory

The Cleveland Cavaliers are rewriting their franchise record books this season, and we’re only 14 games into the year. The Wine and Gold defeated the Chicago Bulls 144-126 on Friday night, and there were plenty of implications after this single victory.

First, the Cavaliers extended their winning streak to 14 games and remain the only undefeated team in the NBA entering this season.

This win extends Cleveland’s best start to a season in its history and snaps a new all-time winning streak to 14 straight games. The Cavaliers’ longest winning streak was 13 games during the 2017-18, 2009-10 and 2008-09 seasons. The common denominator of all these teams is LeBron James, who led them.

With the Cavaliers’ 14-0 record, Kenny Atkinson now has the most consecutive wins to start a season in NBA history.

The Cavs too broke another franchise record in the first 12 minutes of the game with their 49 points in the first quarter. This ties for the highest scoring quarter in franchise history, and somehow it still felt like they could have scored more.

All this, and we haven’t even gotten to the implications of the NBA Cup.

This was the Cavaliers’ first NBA Cup game and they are now 1-0 in their bracket. Cleveland never took its foot off the gas pedal and continued to run up the score in the game’s final possession to finish with an 18-point lead when the final buzzer sounded.

The final score does matter because the points difference is one of the main deciding factors when two teams in the same group finish with the same record.

The only question that remains after this win is: how long can this winning streak last?