LeBron James of the Cleveland Cavaliers takes a shot against the Dallas Mavericks at American Airlines Center in Dallas on Tuesday.

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LeBron James received the help, and the Cleveland Cavaliers left the Dallas Mavericks helpless.
James led a balanced scoring attack with 27 points, Kyrie Irving added 22 Tuesday and the Cavaliers clobbered the Mavericks 127-94 in the opener of a four-game road trip.
“We starting off the road trip exactly like we wanted,” said James, who added eight assists to pass Mark Price as the franchise all-time assist leader with 4,208.
“We played a 48-minute game and that was good to see. We were in attack mode from the beginning until the end.”
Kevin Love had 21 points with 14 rebounds. J.R. Smith also netted 21 while Timofey Mozgov finished with 17 for Central Division-leading Cleveland (41-25) which shot 51 per cent from the field and 15-of-32 on triples en route to an eighth win in the last 11 games.
“Our pace was great,” Love said. “We were playing inside and outside making them pick their poison. When we play with a good pace we’re tough to guard.”
Chandler Parsons scored 18, Monta Ellis had 17 for Dallas (41-25), which committed 16 turnovers leading to 23 points in its most-lopsided loss of the season.
“You can’t go out and perform the way we did for the last three quarters,” said Mavs coach Rick Carlisle, whose club was outscored 101-63 in the final 36 minutes. “Tonight it’s on me. I need to look at the film and ask some hard questions of where we’re at.
“Our guys know this is not who we are and how we’re going to play. We have to circle the wagons and get ready to play Friday.”
Trailing by five after one, Cleveland used a 41-22 second-quarter blitz to take a 67-53 halftime cushion behind 17 points from James while Irving and Smith added 16 apiece.
The onslaught continued as the lead swelled to 99-76 entering the final frame, and the Cavs ended a four-game slide in Dallas, with their third largest road victory in franchise history.
The Cavs look to carry the momentum into Thursday’s showdown at San Antonio against the defending NBA Champ Spurs, where they have lost 10 straight.
“It looks like the great San Antonio team we’re all familiar with,” Cavs coach David Blatt said. “We have to continue to do what we’ve been doing.”
Elsewhere: San Antonio Spurs 117, Toronto Raptors 107: Kawhi Leonard had 24 points and 11 rebounds, Frenchman Tony Parker added 23 with nine assists, and the surging Spurs (40-23) beat the visiting Raptors for their sixth straight win after leading by as many as 26.
Kyle Lowry scored 32 and DeMar DeRozen added 21 for tumbling Toronto (38-26) losers of five in a row.
•Indiana Pacers 118, Orlando Magic 86: Rodney Stuckey scored a season-high 34 points, including six of Indiana’s franchise-record-tying 17 triples, and the Pacers (29-34) pounded the visiting the Magic for their sixth straight win to move into seventh place in the Eastern Conference playoff race.
 Tobias Harris had 22 points in Orlando’s (21-44)fifth loss in the last seven outings.
•New Orleans Pelicans 111, Brooklyn Nets 91: Alexis Ajinca and Quincy Pondexter netted 17 points apiece, and visiting Pelicans (36-29) dominated the Nets (25-37), 55-34 in the middle two quarters, to pull percentage points of the eighth spot in the Western Conference playoff chase.
•Utah Jazz 87, New York Knicks 82: Derrick Favors had 29 points with 12 rebounds, reserve Rodney Hood netted 17 and the Jazz (27-36) - without its top scorer Gordon Hayward (lower back strain) - escaped the visiting Knicks for a season-high third straight victory.
 Alexey Shved led league-worst New York (12-51) with 21 points and a career-high 10 rebounds.
•LA Lakers 93, Detroit Pistons 85: Jordan Hill scored 16 points, including a key jumper with 49 seconds left to trigger a game-ending 8-3 run and the Lakers beat the visiting Pistons to stop a five-game slide.
Despite the victory, the Lakers (17-46) were officially eliminated from the playoff race when New Orleans beat Brooklyn.
Greg Monroe scored 24 points while Andre Drummond added 14 and 21 rebounds in Detroit’s (23-40) seventh straight loss.