Jodie Meeks scores career-high 31 points, leads 76ers past Cavs

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    As Rod Thorn waited outside Cleveland's locker room for coach Byron Scott to finish addressing his team, the Sixers general manager had a good idea what was being said in the postgame speech: How could the Cavs let recently benched Sixers guard Jodie Meeks get a career-high 31 points?

    "I don't think anyone in the building expected Jodie to go for 31," Thorn said. "But he played great tonight, didn't he? Darned near broke the game open himself. But I tell you what -- we'll take that every night the rest of the way.

    "Every night."

    In a division race as tight as the Atlantic, they might need it.

    Meeks scored a career-high 31 points and Jrue Holiday had 19 to lead the Philadelphia 76ers to a 103-85 victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers on Tuesday night.

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