CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The new Cavaliers' honeymoon was spoiled by the All-Star break and the Washington Wizards.

The Cavs lost for the first time since they traded six players and received four new ones, falling 110-103 to the Wizards Thursday night. They had won four straight headed into the All-Star break, with the last three coming after general manager Koby Altman's Feb. 8 trade bonanza.

To sum it all up -- one of the new Cavs making his Q debut, Rodney Hood, threw a wide-open 3-point attempt off the side of the backboard with 2:41 left and Cleveland trailing by 7. The Cavs were 8-of-35 from 3-point range.

With the loss, the Cavs' lead over Washington for third in the East is trimmed to a half-game.

"We missed some open 3s," Coach Tyronn Lue said. "I mean, shooting 8-for-35 it's going to be tough to beat a lot of teams. We had some good looks and good shots, they just didn't fall for us."

LeBron James scored 32 points and became the seventh player in NBA history with 11,000 career field goals. He scored the last 14 points of the game for Cleveland over the final 5:54. His two missed free throws 17.3 seconds remaining and the Cavs down by five basically sealed the Cavs' fate.

James was 13-of-18 shooting with nine rebounds and eight assists.

JR Smith scored nine of his 15 points in the first quarter. Tristan Thompson added 12 points and nine boards.

George Hill, making his first start for the Cavs in Cleveland, struggled to shoot (2-of-10) and finished with six points. Jordan Clarkson finished with nine points; Hood added eight; and Larry Nance Jr. finished with six points.

"Like I told you guys, it's still a work in progress with us," James said. "It's not going to be overnight, no matter the excitement before the break. We got a lot of things to work on, implement what we need to do. Tonight we still played to our game, just didn't make a lot of shots."

The Cavs committed 13 turnovers (which only cost them four points) and shot 11-of-19 from the foul line.

Bradley Beal led the Wizards with 18 points. His layup with 28 seconds left put the Wizards ahead 108-103. Tomas Santoransky, playing for the injured John Wall, scored 17 points with eight assists. Kelly Oubre Jr. added 17 points off the bench and Otto Porter Jr. added 15 points and eight rebounds.

The energy at The Q was palpable when play began and the Cavs led 31-22 after one quarter. James raced out to seven points, six assists and five boards; Thompson piled up six points and five rebounds and Smith scored nine points on 4-of-7 shooting. Over the last six games, Smith is 21-of-25 from the field in the first quarter and 14-of-16 from 3-point range (he was 1-of-3 Thursday).

At the first timeout -- with 8:05 left in the quarter and Cleveland ahead 13-6 -- the Cavs welcomed their four new players with a video tribute. As you may have guessed, the crowd was pleased by this and responded accordingly.

Same season, new attitude, yes?

Call them old, bad habits from the past Cavs iteration, or a product of the unfamiliarity with the current team, but familiar mistakes plagued Cleveland in the second period. Namely, the Wizards shot a bunch of wide-open 3s and made them.

Washington took a 12-point deficit and turned it into a 57-54 halftime advantage, thanks in no small part to six 3s. The Wizards also had 17 assists on 24 buckets, so the ball was moving.

"They went small and put (Marcus) Morris (nine points, eight rebounds) at the 5 and it really gave us problems," Lue said. "I thought it really had us in scramble mode."

Cleveland trailed 82-79 heading into the fourth. Kyle Korver's 3-pointer with 9:42 to go put the Cavs up 89-88, before the Wizards ran off nine consecutive points.

NEXT: The Cavs play at the Memphis Grizzlies at 8 p.m. Friday.