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HEAD TO HEAD

Regular season

13 regular-season meetings listed since 2019-20

Showing: Regular season

Record from 13 regular-season finals. Playoff meetings are never added in.

5–8RECORD
111.8PTS FOR
113.2PTS AGAINST
-1.4MARGIN
13FINALS

Home and road

  • HomeCLE home games · from 6 regular-season finals3–3120.3–113.0 PTS
  • Roadat LAL · from 7 regular-season finals2–5104.6–113.4 PTS

Biggest wins

Cleveland Cavaliers against the Los Angeles Lakers, regular-season meetings by season
SeasonRecordPTS forPTS againstMargin
2025-261–1121.0113.0+8.0
2024-252–0128.0110.0+18.0
2023-240–2106.0118.5-12.5
2022-232–0115.0101.0+14.0
2021-220–2110.5122.0-11.5
2020-210–297.0107.5-10.5
2019-200–199.0128.0-29.0
POSTSEASON

Playoffs

None since 2019-20

Showing: Playoffs

No playoff meeting since 2019-20. Regular-season meetings are never counted here.

No playoff meetings

None between the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Los Angeles Lakers since 2019-20. Missing meetings are not inferred.

LAST 5

Latest meetings

Newest first · regular-season games only

Mar 31, 2026Away · RS · Final · Lost
CLE113—127LAL
Box score
Jan 28, 2026Home · RS · Final · Won
LAL99—129CLE
Box score
Dec 31, 2024Away · RS · Final · Won
CLE122—110LAL
Box score
Oct 30, 2024Home · RS · Final · Won
LAL110—134CLE
Box score
Apr 6, 2024Away · RS · Final · Lost
CLE97—116LAL
Box score
NEXT

Next meeting

The 2026-27 schedule held

None scheduled yet

The 2026-27 NBA schedule Sport Data Service holds lists games through Nov 6, 2026, and no Cavaliers–Lakers meeting still to play.

EVERY MEETING

Results

13 meetings

2025-26

Mar 31, 2026Away · RS · Final · Lost
CLE113—127LAL
Box score
Jan 28, 2026Home · RS · Final · Won
LAL99—129CLE
Box score

2024-25

Dec 31, 2024Away · RS · Final · Won
CLE122—110LAL
Box score
Oct 30, 2024Home · RS · Final · Won
LAL110—134CLE
Box score

2023-24

Apr 6, 2024Away · RS · Final · Lost
CLE97—116LAL
Box score
Nov 25, 2023Home · RS · Final · Lost
LAL121—115CLE
Box score

2022-23

Dec 6, 2022Home · RS · Final · Won
LAL102—116CLE
Box score
Nov 6, 2022Away · RS · Final · Won
CLE114—100LAL
Box score

2021-22

Mar 21, 2022Home · RS · Final · Lost
LAL131—120CLE
Box score
Oct 29, 2021Away · RS · Final · Lost
CLE101—113LAL
Box score

2020-21

Mar 26, 2021Away · RS · Final · Lost
CLE86—100LAL
Box score
Jan 25, 2021Home · RS · Final · Lost
LAL115—108CLE
Box score

2019-20

Jan 13, 2020Away · RS · Final · Lost
CLE99—128LAL
Box score
MATCHUP COVERAGEMeetings since 2019-20

Meetings since 2019-20 (NBA), from each held season's schedule as Sport Data Service holds it. Not an all-time head-to-head.

Records count finals more than 6 hours old, the regular season and the playoffs apart; a fresher final is listed as provisional and a final whose score is not verified is listed, never counted. Preseason and Cup final meetings are listed, tagged, never counted.

Sport Data Service does not hold NBA play-in games or NBA Cup finals (observed 2026-10-19), so no such meeting is listed or counted here.

It also lacks some single games, such as neutral-site and Cup games (8 dates; each date's games page names them): if these two teams met on one of them, that meeting is missing here.

2019-20: box scores incomplete.

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Meetings since 2019-20 only. This page is not an all-time head-to-head record.