Behind King James 24 points, 14 rebounds and 9 assists, the Cleveland Cavs improved to 2-2 with a 108-104 win over the Golden State Warriors. The loss dropped the Warriors to 0-4 overall. With the game tied at 54 heading into halftime, the Cavs were outscored 27-26 in the third quarter, but then beat the Warriors 28-23 in the fourth quarter to come away with the win. Big man Z. Ilgauskas scored 22, along with Daniel Gibson adding 22.

For the Warriors, Baron Davis dropped 29 in a losing cause.

The Cavs will now take on Utah tonight, where DeRon Williams and the Jazz will NOT be easy hosts!

No Amare Stoudemire, no problem for the Phoenix Suns.

Steve Nash scored 30 points and had 10 assists and the Suns — playing without the injured Stoudemire — rallied from a 12-point second-quarter deficit and beat the Cleveland Cavaliers 103-92 on Sunday night.

Stoudemire, the Suns’ All-Star center, was sidelined because of soreness in his right knee. He had arthroscopic surgery on the knee Oct. 2. Coach Mike D’Antoni said Stoudemire was day to day.

Despite Stoudemire’s absence, the resilient Suns were able to overcome the Cavs and LeBron James.

“I feel like the first three games, we haven’t had good rhythm, we haven’t had cohesion,” Nash said. “Tonight we scrapped a little tougher in the second half. We have to work together and find the rhythm that we’ve been successful with.”

Shawn Marion had 23 points and 12 rebounds for the Suns. Leandro Barbosa scored 14 points, and Boris Diaw, who started in place of Stoudemire, scored 16. Nash had 22 points in the second half.

“We got more lively in the second half,” Marion said. “We got out of the sand dune. … We’re playing good defense, but we can play better defense. The perception is we don’t play defense, but we do.”

In other NBA games Sunday, it was: Boston 98, Toronto 95 in overtime; the Los Angeles Clippers 115, Seattle 101; New York 97, Minnesota 93; Charlotte 90, Miami 88; Detroit 92, Atlanta 91; New Orleans 93, Denver 88; and the Los Angeles Lakers 119, Utah 109.

James led Cleveland with 27 points — 21 the second half — while Zydrunas Ilgauskas and Drew Gooden each scored 22. Gooden had 14 rebounds and Ilgauskas 13.

Mike D’Antoni, who became the fastest Phoenix coach to 200 victories, wasn’t ecstatic with the win, but he was satisfied.

“It wasn’t pretty, but it was effective,” he said. “We’re not there yet, but we’ll get there. In the second half, we scored 65 points and still didn’t shoot very well, so that’s encouraging.”

The 7-foot-3 Ilgauskas, who was being guarded by the 6-8 Diaw or 6-9 Brian Skinner, dominated the first half, scoring 14 points and grabbing eight rebounds en route to the 150th double-double of his career.

Gooden, also enjoying a 2-inch height advantage over Grant Hill, chipped in with 12 points and 10 rebounds, helping the Cavaliers to a 45-38 halftime advantage. At one point, the Cavaliers led 39-27.

While Ilgauskas and Gooden were manhandling the short-handed and ailing Suns, James didn’t join in the fun much. Coming off a 45-point effort against the New York Knicks on Friday night, he was held to six points on 3-of-12 shooting in the half.

Marion was the only bright spot for the Suns, scoring 13 points, including Phoenix’s only two 3-pointers.

The Cavaliers had 22 turnovers, leading to 21 Phoenix points, and that dismayed James.

“We had a few careless mistakes …” he said. “We had some unforced ones that were uncharacteristic of us.”

Cleveland coach Mike Brown also was unhappy with his team’s play.

“For some reason, we did not drive the ball,” Brown said. “We swung it, swung it, swung it and then settled for a jump shot. If we play that way, we’ll get beat in a lot of games.”

The season started poorly for the Cleveland Cavs, and LeBron James.

On Halloween, the Cavs were blown out at home by the Western Conference power, Dallas Mavericks, 92-74. LeBron was cold to start the year, going 2-11 from the field, and only scoring 10 points in 36 minutes. Dallas’ Jason Terry scored a team high 24 points to lead the Mavericks to a 1-0 record.

On Friday, the Cavs got themselves a home win, 110-106 over the New York Knicks. The win moved the Cavs to 1-1, and the Knicks to 0-1. LeBron played 44 minutes, hitting 13 of 28 shots from the field, including 3 of 5 from three point, and 16 of 22 from the free throw line. He also added 7 rebounds, 7 assists, and 3 steals to go with his team high 45 points.

For the Knicks Zach Randolph scored 21 points, and Jamaal Crawford added 25.

This week- the Cavs will be busy with games in Phoenix(Sunday), Golden State(Tuesday), Utah(Wednesday) and Sacramento(Friday). Let’s hope the Cavs can win on the road!