Heading into a matchup between the NBA's top teams, the Cavs and Thunder are both dealing with injuries to key players.

Oklahoma City aims to continue its six-game home win streak with a victory against Cleveland. Thursday's meeting is the first of the season for the two teams.

No team has exposed Chet Holmgren’s absence more so than Cleveland and its supersized frontcourt of Evan Mobley and Jarrett Allen.

Week 13 of the fantasy basketball schedule has some critical injuries for fantasy managers to consider when approaching the waiver wire. Evan Mobley and Jalen Williams are among the fantasy standouts dealing with injuries, and Philadelphia's injury list remains loaded. Here are some player statuses that will impact Week 13 in fantasy basketball.

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MINNEAPOLIS — The Cavs finally had their entire 11-man rotation healthy and available Thursday night in Oklahoma City.

The Cleveland Cavaliers are in the midst of a stretch that qualifies as their second worst of the season entering the finale of a three-game road trip against the Minnesota Timberwolves on Saturday in Minneapolis.

The Cavaliers won a thrilling back-and-forth matchup, covering the 3-point home chalk in the process. The game showed how close and exciting of a matchup this can be. But the Cavs clearly had one big advantage over the Thunder, and that was down low.

The Cleveland Cavaliers are running away with the 1-seed in the East thanks in large part to the best offense in the league.

NBA legend Shaquille O'Neal demonstrated that he is all in on the Cleveland Cavaliers. On "NBA on TNT", the hall-of-fame big man made the bold prediction of saying that he's taking the Cavaliers over the reigning champion Boston Celtics.

Cleveland Cavaliers guard Darius Garland is all-praise when it comes to big man Evan Mobley. This season, Mobley has been one of the biggest contributing factors to the Cavaliers' success.