Cavs take opener vs. Magic

Donovan Mitchell scored 30 points, Jarrett Allen posted a 16-point, 18-rebound double-double, and the No. 4 seed Cleveland Cavaliers led wire-to-wire to take Game 1 of their first-round Eastern Conference playoff series at home against the Orlando Magic, 97-83, on Saturday afternoon.

Cleveland scored Game 1’s first six points and jumped to an 11-point lead early, with Evan Mobley scoring eight of his 16 points on the day less than six minutes in. The Cavaliers never looked back after their initial start, pushing their advantage to as many as 20 points.

After falling behind by 14 points coming out of halftime, however, Orlando stormed back to pull within four points. Paolo Banchero, who scored a team-high 24 points, hit a three-pointer to cap a 12-2 run. Jalen Suggs scored six of his 13 points during the surge.

Game 2 is Monday night in Cleveland.

Elsewhere: Brandon

A

Ingram recorded 24 points, six rebounds and six assists and the New Orleans Pelicans clinched the Western Conference’s final playoff berth with a solid 105-98 victory over the visiting Sacramento Kings late Friday night. The Pelicans will face the top-seeded Oklahoma

City Thunder in their first-round series, which starts Sunday.

ETC.

Tennis: Third-seeded A

Casper Ruud will meet fifth-seeded Stefanos Tsitsipas in the finals on Sunday of the Barcelona Open Ban Sabadell in Spain. It’s a rematch of the finals last week, won by Tsitsipas for his third Rolex Monte Carlo Masters in four years and 11th career victory on tour. In the Tiriac Open, Hungary’s Marton Fucsovics ousted the highest-remaining seed, No. 4 Alejandro Tabilo of Chile, 6-4, 6-4 in the semifinals in Bucharest, Romania . ... In the BMW Open, Germany’s

Jan-Lennard Struff cruised into the finals, where he will face third-seeded Taylor Fritz of the United States after both won in straight sets in the semifinals in Munich. Struff dispatched Denmark’s Holger Rune, 6-2, 6-0. Fritz defeated unseeded Cristian Garin of Chile, 6-3, 6-4.