The 27-year-old had taken a Clarke MacArthur wrist shot on the side of his left knee

CLEVELAND -- Roy Hibbert scored 18 points and Lance Stephenson added a season-high 16 to lead the Indiana Pacers to a 99-89 win over the Cleveland Cavaliers, who lost their sixth straight game Friday night. coach outlet . Hibbert didnt have to deal with injured Cavs centre Anderson Varejao, the NBAs leading rebounder. Varejao missed his second game in a row with a bruised right knee. David West added 15 points and 10 rebounds and Gerald Green had 14 points -- with a ferocious dunk -- as the Pacers won for the fifth time in six games. Kyrie Irving scored 17 points on just 5-of-16 shooting for the Cavs, who are 1-11 in their last 12 games. Tristan Thompson of Toronto had 12 points and 13 rebounds for Cleveland, 3-21 in its past 24. With Varejao on the bench in street clothes, the Pacers enjoyed a size advantage inside and they outrebounded the Cavaliers 44-35. Hibbert spent the last 5 minutes on the bench after picking up his fifth foul, but by then Indiana led by double digits and rolled to a relatively easy win. Stephenson went 7 of 8 from the floor and added seven assists. With the Pacers leading by nine early in the fourth quarter, Green, the leagues slam dunk champion in 2007, delivered a jam certain to make highlight reels for the next few days. Driving the left side, he soared in the lane and hammered the ball in over Clevelands Samardo Samuels, who could do nothing to stop it. Green stared at Samuels and was given a technical foul, but the damage was done. Indianas Paul George, scoreless at halftime, had eight points and four steals in the third quarter, when the Pacers outscored the Cavaliers 33-22 to take a 10-point lead into the fourth. During an 18-5 run by the Pacers, George stole a lazy pass by rookie Tyler Zeller, drove for a layup and was fouled. He missed his free throw, but George poked the ball away from an unsuspecting Zeller and threw down a two-handed dunk to give the Pacers a 69-55 lead. Cavs coach Byron Scott decided to rest Varejao for the second straight game rather than risk losing him for several more. The 6-foot-11 Brazilian will also probably sit out Saturdays game in Milwaukee, giving him additional time to heal before the Cavs play again on Dec. 26. Varejao, who is averaging 14.4 rebounds and playing at an All-Star level, bruised his knee on Tuesday night against Toronto. Irving had a puzzling first half and a disappointing game. He scored just five points on 1-of-4 shooting and had four turnovers by halftime. On one of them, he drove the lane and badly overthrew the 7-foot Zeller but then showed some outward disappointment toward his teammate, who would have needed a step ladder to catch Irvings pass. Other than an eight-point flurry in the third quarter, Irving never found his groove on offence and settled for jump shots instead of driving to the basket. Sparked by a 3-pointer from Green, the Pacers used a 12-2 run in the second quarter to open a 41-36 lead. Notes: Not long after his big dunk, Green left with a sprained left ankle. ... Indiana has won four in a row over Cleveland. ... Scott is looking forward to having three practices next week. Because of Clevelands brutal schedule and injuries, the Cavs have been reduced to one practice the past three weeks. ... Zeller made his second start for Varejao and finished with 12 points. He scored 20 on Wednesday at Boston in his first career start. ... Indianas Tyler and Ben Hansbrough are the fourth pair of brothers in NBA history to play on the same team, joining Dick and Tom Van Arsdale, Dominque and Gerald Wilkins and Mark and Brent Price. coach handbags outlet . The two-time Olympic medallist was named as Canadas Olympic flag bearer in a press conference Thursday morning. "It was a huge thrill for me to receive the call from my Olympic hero, Mark Tewksbury, asking me to be Canadas flag-bearer," said the veteran from Victoria, B. coach outlet online . The Canadians insist theyre not paranoid, but recent revelations that teammate Olivier Jeans skate was sabotaged by a competitor has opened the uncomfortable possibility of tampering in their world.TORONTO – Rock bottom only seems to grow deeper. "Its adversity at its worst right now," Cody Franson said hopelessly. Game 82 is the only obvious end in sight as the losses continue to mount in stunning fashion for the Leafs, now an unthinkable 20 in the last 25 games (5-17-3). Thursday night offered yet another disastrous decision at the Air Canada Centre – their 11th straight defeat on home-ice – a 7-1 thumping at the hands of the Philadelphia Flyers. "Its snowballing," Franson continued. "No matter what we try to do to get in the way of the snowball and stop it, we get ran over with it." The Leafs can seemingly do no right, the life completely drained from a group almost resigned to its devastating fate. Spiraling all the way down to 26th in the overall standings – the lottery drawing near – with only four games to go, there is little that can brighten the dark of the past two months in Toronto. "Were just not playing well," Phil Kessel said quietly before delving deeper into his teams woes. "I dont know what our record is here in the last how many games, [but] were just not playing a good game. Were not creating chances, were not playing good defence, were not doing little things to win hockey games. I mean how many shots did we have tonight? When you play like that and they have 35-40, how do you win a game? Were just not doing anything right. Its disappointing for us. We expect better ourselves. Hopefully in the last four games we can prove that were better than this because its not what we want to be." "Its embarrassing," Franson concluded of the latest one-sided result. "It doesnt get much more embarrassing than that." Five Points 1. Perhaps most disappointing to Randy Carlyle was his teams fight in front of a rookie goaltender thrust into the starters role. 24-year-old rookie Jussi Rynnas – who has bounced between the Marlies and Reading Royals of the ECHL this season – was forced into his first NHL start when Jonas Gustavsson went down with a left knee injury in the pre-game warm-up. Rynnas was all but hung out to dry on a number of occasions, yielding seven goals. "I wouldve expected more from our group from a protection standpoint against the hockey club that we played tonight in the Flyers," Carlyle said. "I was anticipating more of a pushback from that standpoint, make sure that Jussi had an opportunity to shine." 2. Rynnas took over for Gustavsson in his first NHL game on Tuesday, left on an island several times in his first start two days later. "You never want to give up seven goals," he said after facing 30 shots. coach factory outlet. "Im not happy about that, but I just try to get good things with me and leave the rest of it behind." Nicknamed "The Bus" (six-foot-five, 205 pounds), Rynnas knew the moment Gustavsson went sprawling to the ice in warm-ups that he would be starting that night. "I was ready to play," he said. "It doesnt matter when it happens, I was ready." 3. It was a scary scene just minutes before puck-drop, Gustavsson laying face down on the ice for several moments before being helped off by teammates and trainers. The 27-year-old had taken a Clarke MacArthur wrist shot on the side of his left knee, a stinger that hit bone. "He was walking and hopefully with some treatment hell be able to practice [Friday]," Carlyle said, indicating no firm plans had a further injury happened to Rynnas. Gustavsson arrived on the bench as the back-up in the second period, but its doubtful he would have been fit to play. "I was looking at a couple of coaches that could possibly put the gear on," Carlyle said, managing a smile. 4. Much like his predecessor, the new Leaf head coach has been left scratching his head with a winding road of futility. "Theres not a lot we can say," Carlyle said of his message to the group. "Weve said everything we can say. Youre really looking to the inner self of the individuals to say Hey how can we continue to allow this to happen?" He later added, "In my history and my coaching career and playing career, it always went back to that if you can defend usually you give yourself a chance. If your specialty teams can give you a chance in the games and win that special teams game within the game usually you have a chance to win the hockey game. Those are the things that turn the game or turn the tide of the game in your favour, but we didnt give ourselves a chance with the number of turnovers we committed in the hockey game. Its unacceptable." The Leafs managed just 17 shots on Sergei Bobrosky, the fifth time in the last seven games theyve mustered 20 or fewer. Thursday also marked the 13th time in the 25-game slide that the club has allowed four or more against. 5. Its been nearly two months since the Leafs last won on home-ice (February 6 vs. Edmonton). Jeers of "Lets Go Blue Jays" thundered down from a sour ACC crowd. "Were not playing well so what do you expect?" Kessel said. "I dont remember the last time we won a game in this building." The Leafs have been outscored 43-19 during the eleven-game winless skid in Toronto. ' ' '