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Cleveland vs. phoenix Tipoff: 7:00

pm, Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2011

Tonight, the Cleveland Cavaliers and Phoenix Suns will play each other for the second and last time this season. In their first meeting just 10 days ago, Manny Harris (27 points, eight rebounds), J.J. Hickson (23 points, 17 rebounds) and Antawn Jamison (23 points, seven rebounds) all gave strong efforts, but the Suns shot 13-28 from deep and outscored the Cavs 27-19 in the fourth quarter to win 108-100 at US Airways Center. Cleveland trails the all-time series 58-38, but has won four of the last five meetings against Phoenix.

The Cavaliers had a season-high seven players score in double figures against Denver on Saturday. Against the Nuggets, Ramon Sessions had a near double-double with team highs of 21 points and nine assists. The first-year Cavalier has put up solid numbers over his last 10 games, averaging 14.5 points on .521 shooting, 3.7 rebounds and 5.8 assists in 27.9 minutes per game. He is also shooting 45-51 (.882) from the free throw line over that span. After tonight, the Cavs will host Central Division rival Milwaukee on Friday before embarking on a three-game road trip with stops in Chicago, New Jersey and Boston.

Cavaliers guard Ramon Sessions is averaging 14.5 points and 5.8 assists in 27.9 minutes over his last 10 games.

The Suns are one of the best offensive teams in the NBA, averaging 106.8 points (3rd in NBA) while shooting .473 from the field (2nd in league). Their leading scorer is Vince Carter, who is averaging 18.9 points and shooting .441 from long distance in 10 games with the Suns. Phoenix also has the NBA’s second-highest assists leader in Steve Nash, who is averaging a double-double on the year with 17.2 points on .520 shooting and 10.8 assists per game.

2010-2011 team statistics Team Comparison Cleveland Phoenix

W L 8 32 18 21

Stats as of January 18, 2011

Standings Home Fifth, Central 5-12 Second, Pacific 11-9

Stat Comparison PPG FG% Cleveland 93.6 .425 phoenix 106.8 .473

Opp. PPG Opp. FG% 104.9 .481 109.3 .484

Road Div 3-20 1-6 7-12 4-4

Conf Last 10 7-18 0-10 11-14 5-5

FT% RPG APG SPG BPG .739 39.8 21.1 6.8 3.6 .760 39.2 23.0 6.5 3.9

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2010-11 cleveland cavaliers No Player Pos Hgt 8 Christian Eyenga G-F 6-5 33 Alonzo Gee G-F 6-6 1 Daniel Gibson G 6-2 12 Joey Graham F-G 6-7 6 Manny Harris G 6-5 21 J.J. Hickson F 6-9 5 Ryan Hollins C 7-0 4 Antawn Jamison F 6-9 15 Jamario Moon F 6-8 18 Anthony Parker G-F 6-6 44 Leon Powe F 6-8 24 Samardo Samuels F 6-9 3 Ramon Sessions G 6-3 17 Anderson Varejao F-C 6-11 2 Mo Williams G 6-1

Wgt 210 219 200 230 185 242 240 235 205 210 240 260 190 260 195

Birthdate From/College 06/22/1989 Kinshasa, Congo 5/29/1987 Alabama 02/27/1986 Texas 06/11/1982 Oklahoma State 09/21/1989 Michigan 09/04/1988 North Carolina State 10/10/1984 UCLA 06/12/1976 North Carolina 06/13/1980 Meridian CC (MS) 06/19/1975 Bradley 01/22/1984 California 01/09/1989 Louisville 04/11/1986 Nevada-Reno 09/28/1982 Santa Teresa, Brazil 12/19/1982 Alabama

Yrs R 1 4 5 R 2 4 12 3 7 4 R 3 6 7

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2010-2011 player statistics No Player Gms 8 Eyenga 5 33 Gee 25 1 Gibson 32 12 Graham 16 6 Harris 20 21 Hickson 38 5 Hollins 31 4 Jamison 37 15 Moon 30 18 Parker 34 44 Powe 14 24 Samuels 9 3 Sessions 39 17 Varejao 31 2 M. Williams 33

MPG 21.0 15.6 29.3 19.3 18.5 23.8 13.2 30.8 18.7 30.6 13.4 14.3 22.9 32.1 30.4

FG% .486 .405 .412 .459 .372 .437 .562 .433 .385 .383 .492 .444 .444 .528 .387

3P% FT% RPG APG .083 1.000 3.0 0.6 .308 .719 2.5 0.7 .440 .832 3.3 3.1 .286 .826 2.5 0.4 .368 .788 2.9 1.6 .000 .654 5.8 0.7 .000 .698 2.4 0.4 .339 .694 6.1 1.5 .232 1.000 2.9 1.1 .388 .764 3.2 2.7 .000 .462 2.7 0.1 .000 .600 3.7 0.0 .000 .816 2.8 4.3 .000 .667 9.7 1.5 .266 .825 2.8 7.1

SPG 0.4 0.9 0.8 0.1 0.8 0.6 0.2 0.8 0.6 0.9 0.5 0.4 0.6 0.9 0.9

BPG PPG 1.0 7.2 0.2 3.6 0.2 13.7 0.1 7.1 0.2 6.2 0.4 11.1 0.5 4.6 0.5 16.4 0.4 4.4 0.1 9.1 0.2 5.0 0.4 4.6 0.0 10.6 1.2 9.1 0.3 13.6

Stats as of January 18, 2011

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2010-11 phoenix suns No Player Pos Hgt 25 Vince Carter G 6-6 1 Josh Childress F-G 6-8 22 Zabian Dowdell G 6-3 2 Goran Dragic G 6-3 3 Jared Dudley G-F 6-7 8 Channing Frye C-F 6-11 4 Marcin Gortat C-F 6-11 33 Grant Hill F 6-8 31 Gani Lawal F 6-9 15 Robin Lopez C 7-0 13 Steve Nash G 6-3 12 Mickael Pietrus G-F 6-6 20 Garret Siler C 6-11 21 Hakim Warrick F 6-9

Wgt 220 209 191 190 225 245 240 225 234 255 178 215 305 219

Birthdate From/College 01/26/1977 North Carolina 06/20/1983 Stanford 09/10/1984 Virginia Tech 05/06/1986 Ljubljana, Slovenia 07/10/1985 Boston College 05/17/1983 Arizona 02/17/1984 Lodz, Poland 10/05/1972 Duke 11/07/1988 Georgia Tech 04/01/1988 Stanford 02/07/1974 Santa Clara 02/07/1982 Les Abymes, Guadeloupe 10/25/1986 Augusta State 07/08/1982 Syracuse

Yrs 12 4 R 2 3 5 3 15 R 2 14 7 R 5

HEAD COACH: Alvin Gentry ASST. COACHES: Bill Cartwright, Dan Majerle, Igor Kokoskov, Noel Gillespie

2010-2011 player statistics No Player 25 Carter 1 Childress 22 Dowdell 2 Dragic 3 Dudley 8 Frye 4 Gortat 33 Hill 31 Lawal 15 Lopez 13 Nash 12 Pietrus 20 Siler 21 Warrick

Gms 32 31 2 39 39 39 37 37 1 25 37 29 7 37

MPG 31.0 17.2 6.5 18.8 23.9 31.3 18.3 30.2 2.0 18.3 32.7 21.5 5.9 20.3

FG% .467 .544 .143 .410 .460 .427 .536 .514 .000 .538 .520 .390 .444 .532

3P% FT% RPG APG .387 .744 4.4 2.6 .000 .560 3.2 0.8 .000 1.000 0.5 1.5 .300 .621 2.0 3.2 .400 .752 3.5 1.0 .366 .815 6.0 1.2 .000 .643 5.0 0.8 .385 .828 4.9 2.4 .000 .000 0.0 0.0 .000 .816 3.7 0.2 .394 .913 3.7 10.8 .366 .667 2.4 0.6 .000 .400 1.7 0.3 .000 .734 4.1 0.6

SPG 0.8 0.5 1.0 0.7 1.0 0.7 0.3 0.7 0.0 0.2 0.7 0.5 0.1 0.4

BPG PPG 0.2 16.3 0.4 5.3 0.0 2.0 0.1 7.8 0.2 9.5 1.1 11.1 0.9 5.2 0.4 14.6 0.0 0.0 0.8 7.5 0.0 17.2 0.2 7.1 0.4 1.4 0.2 10.0

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