{"id":350902,"date":"2025-12-16T03:36:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T03:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/350902\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T03:36:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T03:36:08","slug":"pistons-112-105-celtics-16-dec-2025-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/350902\/","title":{"rendered":"Pistons 112-105 Celtics (16 Dec, 2025) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

BOSTON — \u2014 Cade Cunningham<\/a> had 32 points and 10 rebounds to help the Detroit Pistons<\/a> beat the Boston Celtics<\/a> 112-105 on Monday night.<\/p>\n

Caris LeVert<\/a> and Tobias Harris<\/a> each added 13 points for the Eastern Conference-leading Pistons, who won their fourth straight. Detroit also got even for a frustrating loss in Boston late last month.<\/p>\n

Jaylen Brown<\/a> had 34 points, eight rebounds and seven assists to lead the Celtics. Derrick White<\/a> scored 31 points as Boston lost its second straight after a five-game winning streak.<\/p>\n

When the teams met three weeks ago, Boston ended Detroit\u2019s franchise record-tying 13-game winning streak<\/a> despite 42 points from Cunningham, who missed a tying free throw in the closing seconds.<\/p>\n

Detroit opened the final quarter with a four-point edge and pushed it to 103-93 on Javonte Green\u2019s steal and breakaway dunk with just under six minutes left.<\/p>\n

Boston had cut it to 96-93 on White\u2019s three-point play that sent Cunningham to the bench with his fifth foul, but Green had a corner 3 and followed that with his jam that pushed the Pistons up by 10.<\/p>\n

The Celtics made one more charge, closing to 104-102 on White\u2019s baseline jumper with 2:47 left, but Cunningham had a couple of key jumpers in the final two minutes. <\/p>\n

In the clubs\u2019 first meeting of the season, the Pistons edged Boston, overcoming Brown\u2019s 41 points in their home opener.<\/a><\/p>\n

From the end of the first quarter until early in the fourth, Boston missed 20 of 21 3-point attempts. The Celtics finished just 10 for 39 on 3s; while Detroit was 13 for 36.<\/p>\n

Up next <\/p>\n

Pistons: At Dallas on Thursday night.<\/p>\n

Celtics: Host Miami on Friday night.<\/p>\n

——<\/a> <\/p>\n

AP NBA: https:\/\/www.apnews.com\/hub\/NBA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BOSTON — \u2014 Cade Cunningham had 32 points and 10 rebounds to help the Detroit Pistons beat the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350903,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-350902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}