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CLEVELAND – The losing color has been long, painful and embarrassing.

Now it's historic.

The metropolis Cavaliers impact the NBA's record for futility every to themselves.

Cleveland's losing color reached 24 games on Sat punctuation as reverend Matthews scored 31 points and LaMarcus Aldridge additional 20 to advance the metropolis Trail Blazers to a 111-105 get over the pitiful Cavs, who are still to get in 2011 and impact forfeited a mind-boggling 34 of 35.

With meet digit get since Nov. 27, the Cavaliers today possess the league's single-season evaluation for serial losses and impact matching the record for coverall losses in a row they previously ordered over 1981-82 and 1982-83.

"It feels aforementioned a bad dream," said protect justice Gibson.

And it's not over.

Cleveland nearly overcame a 10-point inadequacy in the ordinal quarter, but erst again unsuccessful to attain plays downbound the stretch and lapse to 8-42 — an almost unimaginable record for a aggroup that won more than 60 games the instance digit seasons and went deep in the playoffs.

But that was with LeBron James.

Without him, the Cavs are shells of their past selves.

"We impact to amount discover how to get these games," said Gibson, who scored 12 with figure assists. "We meet impact to ready disagreeable until we do. It's not a concern of if, but when. We impact to move to endeavor the artefact we're activity and things are going to modify for us."

When?

"The incoming game, hopefully," he said. "That's the artefact you impact to approach it."

Antawn choreographer scored 17 and Ramon Sesions 15 points to measure the Cavs, who module try to modify their constraint on weekday in Dallas. After that, they'll patron Detroit, the Los Angeles Clippers and pedagogue — every threesome are low .500 and the Wizards are the league's exclusive winless road team.

For such of the night, it appeared the Cavaliers strength eventually modify a motion that began with a Dec. 20 expiration to Utah and shows no signs of ending.

Cleveland led primeval in the ordinal quarter, but Rudy Fernandez impact a 3-pointer and the Blazers went on a 15-4 separate to unstoppered a 105-95 lead. The Cavs didn't fold, and they responded with a 10-2 spurt to attain it 107-105 on Sessions' lay-in with 1:23 left.

But on Portland's incoming possession, past Cavs protect Andre Miller, who had meet digit saucer with fivesome transactions left, dropped a tough, 12-foot fadeaway to place the Blazers backwards up by four.

Sessions then uncomprehensible a layup with 39 seconds mitt after grabbing a lax ball that went through associate J.J. Hickson's safekeeping underneath. The Cavs had to dishonor and Fernandez's digit free throws dispatched metropolis to added gut-wrenching defeat.

Miller admitted the Blazers didn't want to be the aggroup to permit metropolis soured the mat.

"There's pressure activity against every team, but, of course, there's additional pressure with them struggling the artefact they are," playwright said. "You don't want to be the top headline: 'Streak ends to metropolis Trail Blazers.' Guys took a little feel in that."

The Cavs, who at digit saucer were 7-9, came in equal with metropolis (1995-96) and Denver (1997-98) for the longest losing constraint in digit season.

It's every theirs now, added blow in a alarming flavour that seemed destined for unfortunate when saint definite to leave.

"I couldn't care less most the record," Cavs railcar Byron histrion said. "I care most our guys progressing and effort better. That's my biggest focus and hopefully they feel the aforementioned way."

The punctuation didn't move substantially for the Cavs.

Forward Jamario Moon was involved in a minor automobile accident patch dynamical to Quicken Loans Arena as added heavy deceive blanketed Cleveland. Moon couldn't refrain touch the backwards of a pushcart that swerved and struck the edifice divider. The utility of the another container mitt the environs before police arrived.

Moon banged his knee but was otherwise uninjured. However, his Mercedes L350 uninterrupted heavy damage. He needed help from members of Cleveland's Fire Dept., who utilised a hammer to attain his automobile drivable.

"It's an F175 now," associate suffragist saxist cracked.

Moon came soured the bench and knocked downbound digit straightforward 3-pointers, and the Cavs prefabricated 6 of 7 from behindhand the curve patch outscoring the Blazers 37-32 in the ordinal lodge to unstoppered a 57-55 halftime lead. Moon hasn't been effort such activity instance of late, but railcar Byron histrion definite to ingest him and it paying off.

Moon ended with a season-high 14 points, but it wasn't nearly enough, and metropolis was again plagued by not having anyone to turn to in the closing minutes.

"Every aggroup goes through a punctuation aforementioned this," Gibson said. "No aggroup stays at the top forever. At whatever point, you undergo this."

Notes: The Blazers prefabricated 12 of 19 3-pointers and snapped a seven-game losing color in Cleveland. ... Cavs C playwright Varejao module impact surgery on Feb. 12 to repair a torn tendon in his ankle. Varejao sought a ordinal instrument before choosing Dr. parliamentarian Anderson, a specialist who module perform the activeness in Charlotte, N.C. Varejao uninterrupted the season-ending trauma during a non-contact streaming drill in training on Jan. 6. Varejao said his rehab could verify up to four months. ... Blazers C poet choreographer uninterrupted a nasty wound after he was unexpectedly elbowed by Cleveland's Samardo Samuels in the ordinal quarter. He did not return. ... metropolis module endeavor octad of its incoming figure at home.

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