This isn’t the first season when Jarrett Allen and Evan Mobley have played together for the Cleveland Cavaliers, but it’s easily their best year yet. They have become a monstrous, sometimes unstoppable pair that anchors the team’s frontcourt and helps them achieve so much success.

The Cleveland Cavaliers just won their biggest game of the season. They knew how much the narrative about them would change if they lost at home to the Oklahoma City Thunder, so they approached it as a playoff game.

Cavaliers 129, Thunder 122 Jarrett Allen and Evan Mobley combine for 46 points, 22 rebounds and 13 assists on 17-for-23 shooting to power the Cavaliers to an 11th straight

Jarrett Allen scored 25 points, Evan Mobley added 21 and the Cleveland Cavaliers ended Oklahoma City’s 15-game winning streak by beating the Thunder 129-122 in a marquee meeting between the NBA’s top two teams.

The Oklahoma City Thunder have been the hottest team in the NBA over the past month or so; they strung together a 15-game winning streak that included huge wins over the New York Knicks and Boston Celtics — flexing their historically-great defense in the process.