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Darius Garland led Cleveland with 17 points, while Evan Mobley added 15 points and 11 rebounds. The Cavaliers recorded their 11th game of scoring over 110 points this season. With a perfect 12-0 start, they have achieved their best beginning to a season since the 2015-16 Golden State Warriors, who famously started 24-0. Despite this incredible start, the Warriors finished the season with a record-breaking 73-9 record, but ultimately were defeated in the NBA Finals by... the Cavaliers.

Donovan Mitchell and Isaac Okoro celebrate as Cleveland make their way to victory over the Chicago Bulls.

Photograph: Melissa Tamez/AP

“It’s great to be part of history,” said Mitchell. “I never want to take those things for granted along the road when we’re doing it in various ways. We’re doing it in ways where we are blowing out teams. We’re winning from behind. We’re winning close games. And it’s somebody different every night leading the charge. It’s always a group effort.”

Garland rolled in a layup with 24 seconds left, and Mitchell made two free throws to help close it out.

Zach LaVine scored 26 points for Chicago, who lost for the fifth time in six games. Coby White and Nicola Vucevic each had 20 points. The Bulls opened a nine-point lead with 4:26 left in the third quarter before Cleveland bounced back late for a second straight game.

Five of the other seven teams who have started a season 12-0 have gone on to play in the NBA finals.

“This group is locked in,” Cavs coach Kenny Atkinson said. “I do think there’s [been] questions about this group, whether they can get to the next level, can they make the next step? So, I think when you have that, you have that chip [on your shoulder], you focus even more. There’s another level of concentration, another level of focus, another level of detail that these guys use to carry us to 12-0 so far.”

Atkinson is in his first season with Cleveland and Mobley gave him credit for the changes he has made to a team who lost 4-1 to the Boston Celtics in last season’s Eastern Conference semifinals.

“Kenny did a great job of infusing everybody,” Mobley said after the game. “We knew the defensive system coming in, and he had an offense scheme for us that he wanted to work out. And he mended that very well, and I feel like everyone just bought in right away. Since then, we’ve just been going up from there.”