Knicks vs Cavaliers game notes November 7, 2026, Digi Mart USA News (Cleveland, Ohio): The New York Knicks travel to face the Cleveland Cavaliers on November 7, 2026, at 7:30 PM ET at Rocket Arena in Cleveland, Ohio. The game is Game 9 of the season and Game 4 of the Knicks’ road schedule.
The Knicks have a history with the date. On November 7, 1946, the team made its first radio broadcast, with Marty Glickman and Sarah Palfrey Cook calling a 68-63 win at St.
Louis on WHN. On November 7, 2003, Allan Houston scored 39 points and Keith Van Horn added 20 in a come-from-behind 114-111 victory over Sacramento at Madison Square Garden, with New York scoring 71 second-half points to fuel the comeback.
The teams last met in Cleveland on February 24, 2026, when the Cavaliers defeated the Knicks 109-94. Mitchell Robinson led New York with 11 points on 83.3 percent shooting, 16 rebounds, two blocks and one assist off the bench.
Mikal Bridges scored 18 points, and Karl-Anthony Towns added 14 points on 100.0 percent shooting with seven rebounds.
For Cleveland, Donovan Mitchell led all scorers with 23 points, five rebounds, four assists and three steals. Jarrett Allen contributed 19 points on 87.5 percent shooting and 10 rebounds, while Dean Wade recorded 11 points, eight rebounds, three assists, three steals and two blocks.
The notes also highlight several connections between the two rosters and benches. Knicks head coach Mike Brown previously coached the Cavaliers for five consecutive seasons from 2005 to 2010 and returned for the 2013-14 season.
Cavaliers head coach Kenny Atkinson was an assistant coach for the Knicks from 2008 to 2012, and Cavaliers associate head coach Johnnie Bryant served as the Knicks’ associate head coach from 2020 to 2024.
Several players have shared history as well. Knicks announcer Walt “Clyde” Frazier played three seasons with Cleveland from 1977 to 1980.
Donovan Mitchell and Jordan Clarkson were teammates on the Utah Jazz for three seasons from 2019 to 2022, and Clarkson also played for Cleveland in 2018-19. Landry Shamet and James Harden played together on the Brooklyn Nets in 2020-21, and Andre Drummond played for the Cavaliers from 2019 to 2021.
In the Knicks’ most recent game, a 135-105 win over the Chicago Bulls on November 4, Jalen Brunson scored 33 points on 58.8 percent shooting. Karl-Anthony Towns recorded 17 points and 12 rebounds for his eighth consecutive double-double to start the season, and OG Anunoby added 18 points, five rebounds, two assists and three steals.
Several individual milestones came from that game. Brunson’s 33 points marked his 103rd game with 30 or more points as a Knick, third in franchise history.
Jordan Clarkson surpassed Thurl Bailey for seventh place all-time in bench points since the 1968-69 season, with 8,699 career points off the bench. Miles McBride recorded his 41st career game with two or more steals off the bench, passing Rod Strickland and Chris Childs for ninth in franchise history.
The Knicks also set a franchise mark for scoring, with 40-plus points in both the first and second quarters for the first time. They posted 84 first-half points, tying their franchise record set at Philadelphia on November 18, 1988.
The team has recorded 14 wins by at least 30 points since the start of last season, the most in the NBA.
