The Cleveland Cavaliers dominated the Washington Wizards 130-117 in the regular season finale for both teams on Sunday night.
Nae’Qwan Tomlin led the Cavs with a career-high 26 points, while Jaylon Tyson had an almost triple-double of 22 points, 11 rebounds, and eight assists.
The Cavaliers rested most of their key players because they were locked into the fourth seed in the Eastern Conference.
Cleveland will face Toronto in the first round, having won 11 of its last 14 games and is 35-14 since Dec. 29.
On the other hand, Jamir Watkins led the Wizards with a career-high 24 points, while Sharife Cooper and Bub Carrington scored 20 apiece.
Carrington is the first NBA player since Karl-Anthony Towns in 2016-17 to appear in all 82 games in each of his first two seasons.
They have 15 straight wins over Washington, the second-longest winning streak against any team in franchise history.
Meanwhile, the NBA-worst Wizards (17-65) ended the season on a 10-game losing streak and dropped 26 of their last 27. T
The Cavaliers scored a season-high 43 points in the first quarter. Tomlin’s 3-pointer put the Cavaliers up 55-31 with 6:41 remaining in the second quarter before the Wizards started rallying back.
They went on a 16-5 run over the last four minutes of the first half to get within 65-55 at halftime.
Washington rallied within 99-97 early in the fourth quarter on a driving layup by Cooper, but still fell short.
Cleveland will look forward to the first round of the playoffs next week against the Raptors.
