Cavaliers center Tyler Zeller was given a technical foul in the third quarter for shoving Nuggets center JaValeMcGee while Faried and Cleveland forward Tristan Thompson got tangled up on a couple of occasions.
Bryant needed 23 shots to score his 29 points and he often found those shots getting swatted away by JaValeMcGee, including one that led to a basket by Lawson as the Nuggets took a 67-54 halftime lead.