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Don't be surprised if ... Ty Jerome is a top-50 player the final weeks
The Cavaliers entered Wednesday with an eight-game lead in the East with 21 games left, and with every right to give their star players more than the occasional day off in March and April. Evan Mobley, perhaps the league's pending winner of the Defensive Player of the Year award now that Victor Wembanyama is ineligible, rested Tuesday, even though nothing is wrong with him. Donovan Mitchell sat out a weekend game. Darius Garland missed a pair of games a week before with a hip contusion, but he could have played.
Jerome, the spunky Virginia product enjoying a breakout season off the bench at 27, isn't missing games. Watch him play and it is clear he wants to be out there for every minute he can, and he has scored more than 20 points in three of the past five.