Cavaliers and Magic to settle playoff series standoff with Game 7 -- the 'best two words in sports'

APNews - 04/05
The Cavs and Magic are going to the limit. Unable to find a way to win on the road, Cleveland and Orlando will settle their series on Sunday with a Game 7, a fitting conclusion between two teams that have put their strengths and weaknesses on public display for six games.

CLEVELAND (AP) — Donovan Mitchell pushed himself to his physical limits, leaving everything he had on the floor while trying to close out the precocious Orlando Magic.

Cleveland’s star came up short. He gets another shot.

One more. Game 7.

“Best two words in sports,” Mitchell said late Friday night.

Unable to find a way to win on the road, the Cavs and Magic will settle their series on Sunday in a fitting winner-take-all finale between two teams that have put their strengths and weaknesses on public display for six games.

Only one advances to face the Boston Celtics, the beasts of the Eastern Conference who will be well-rested for whichever team escapes this Cavs-Magic stalemate.

For Mitchell, who scored 50 points — including Cleveland’s final 22 and all 18 in the fourth quarter — during his virtuoso performance in Friday night’s 103-96 loss in Game 6, everything that has happened prior to this is almost meaningless, an extended opening act....
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