Cavaliers’ Shumpert will miss one week

Cleveland Cavaliers guard Iman Shumpert will miss a week with a left knee injury, the latest setback for a Cleveland point guard.

With Derrick Rose and Isaiah Thomas out with injuries, Shumpert has been starting for the Cavaliers, who won their fourth in a row Friday night, 118-113, in overtime.

Shumpert started in the win over the Los Angeles Clippers but left in the second quarter with a sore knee and didn’t return. The team said Saturday that imaging tests revealed swelling in Shumpert’s knee and he will have treatment for a week.

Veteran Jose Calderon came off the bench and played for the first time since Nov. 1, and coach Tyronn Lue used LeBron James and Dwyane Wade at the point. Wade finished with 23 points in 37 minutes.

Shumpert is averaging just 5.2 points and 3.3 rebounds, but he’s been invaluable while filling in for Rose and Thomas.

With Shumpert out, the Cavaliers are expected to recall John Holland from their Canton GLeague affiliate. He scored 43 points in a game for the Charge earlier this season.

Lakers

For the third time in three games between Los Angeles and Phoenix, a skirmish broke out between the players. This time it came Friday night, in tandem with a scuffle in the stands that saw two fans removed by security.

With 3:17 left in the game, Kentavious Caldwell-Pope tangled with Suns point guard Tyler Ulis. Suns rookie Josh Jackson stormed into the fray a few seconds later. All three were assessed technical fouls.

“I think because of the fact that we played three times in such a short amount of time,” Los Angeles coach Luke Walton said.

“It’s like a playoff series. By Game 3, 4, 5, it starts to get chippy. I think all those play into it a little bit, why the games have been like that.”

Nuggets

Denver’s 146 points Friday night in a 146-114 rout of the New Orleans Pelicans was amazing in its own right. It was even more so considering that they had scored just 82 in their previous game — a 99-82 loss to Portland. The scoring difference also put Elias Sports Bureau to work. It had been more than nine years since a team increased its point total from one game to the next by at least 64 points. On April 13, 2008, the Bulls lost to the Magic, 104-84. The next day, Chicago scored 151 in a victory against the Bucks.