On Monday, the NBA announced that Cleveland Cavaliers guard Darius Garland has been named the Eastern Conference Player of the Week for Week 3 (games played Monday, November 4, through Sunday, November 10).
This is Garland’s second career player of the week honor (once in 2021-22), making him the seventh player in Cavaliers history to win the award multiple times, and the second consecutive week a Cavalier has earned player of the week, following Donovan Mitchell’s win in Week 2.
Garland led the Cavaliers to a perfect 4-0 record this past week, extending the team’s overall record to an NBA-best and franchise-record 11-0 start to the season. Cleveland became just the 12th team in league history to win their first 11 games of a season and the first since the 2015-16 Golden State Warriors. During the week, Garland averaged a team-high 25.0 points, 7.3 assists and 1.3 steals in 31.8 minutes while shooting a remarkable .617 from the field, .576 from three-point range, and .875 from the foul line.
In 11 games this season, Garland is averaging 20.5 points (.538 FG%, .475 3FG%, .950 FT%), 6.6 assists and 1.18 steals in just 29.5 minutes per contest. He is the only player in the NBA averaging at least 20.0 points while shooting .500 from the field, .400 from three-point range and .900 from the foul line.
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