Antetokounmpo leads way past Cavs

Giannis Antetokounmpo had 24 points and 11 rebounds, Jrue Holiday scored 20 and the Bucks beat the Cavaliers for the second time in two days, 124-99, on Feb. 6.

Khris Middleton added 20 points and Bryn Forbes had 18 points on 6-of-6 shooting from 3-point territory for the Bucks, who broke the game open with a 42-18 run spanning the third and fourth quarters and won their fourth in a row.

Milwaukee began its six-game road trip Friday, when Antetokounmpo had 33 points and 12 boards in a 123-105 victory at Cleveland. The Bucks didn’t arrive in Northeast Ohio until the afternoon due to mechanical issues on their team plane.

Andre Drummond paced the Cavaliers with 28 points and 11 rebounds. Cleveland completed a stretch of four home games in six days, winning once, and has lost seven of its nine overall.

Milwaukee went ahead for good late in the first and took its largest lead at 122-92 on a floater by Jaylen Adams with 3:16 left in the fourth. Holiday finished with eight assists and Antetokounmpo had five.

Collin Sexton scored 17 points and Darius Garland had 17 points and nine assists for Cleveland. Drummond

made 12 of 17 shots and was 4 of 5 from the foul line, while Taurean Prince had 12 points off the bench.

Milwaukee held a 5954 advantage at halftime thanks to 14 points and six assists from Holiday. Drummond and Sexton each scored 13 points for Cleveland as the teams combined to shoot 54.3%.

Cavaliers power forward Larry Nance Jr. had four points after missing three games with a sprained right

wrist.

Off the mark

Drummond owns a career-low .477 field goal percentage and had gone five games without making more than half his shots. Cavaliers coach J.B. Bickerstaff accepted some blame for Drummond’s inefficiency. “We have to diversify his package and make him more difficult for defenses to find,” Bickerstaff said. Drummond also has fallen to second in the NBA in rebounding behind Atlanta’s Clint Capela during his offensive slump.

Tip-ins

CAVALIERS » Sexton has 55 consecutive double-figure scoring games, the ninth-longest active streak in the NBA. … Rookie F Isaac Okoro played 14 minutes in the first half without recording a statistic. … F Kevin Love (right calf strain) missed his 22nd straight game, but worked out on the court before the arena gates opened. The five-time All-Star last played on Dec. 27 against Philadelphia.

Up next

CAVALIERS » At Phoenix on Feb. 8. Cleveland begins a five-game trip and won’t return to Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse until Feb. 17 against San Antonio.

Box score

TONY DEJAK — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Bucks’ Giannis Antetokounmpo drives against Taurean Prince on Feb. 6at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse.