{"id":368589,"date":"2025-12-24T09:44:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T09:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/368589\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T09:44:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T09:44:07","slug":"pistons-136-127-kings-24-dec-2025-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/368589\/","title":{"rendered":"Pistons 136-127 Kings (24 Dec, 2025) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SACRAMENTO, Calif. &#8212; \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4432166\/cade-cunningham\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cade Cunningham<\/a> had 23 points and 14 assists, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4433621\/jalen-duren\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jalen Duren<\/a> had 23 points and 12 rebounds, and the Eastern Conference-leading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/det\/detroit-pistons\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Detroit Pistons<\/a> beat the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/sac\/sacramento-kings\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sacramento Kings<\/a> 136-127 on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>              <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/6440\/tobias-harris\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tobias Harris<\/a> scored 24 points for the Pistons, who have won nine of 11.<\/p>\n<p>              Duren&#8217;s double-double was his fourth straight and 17th of the season. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4684742\/ausar-thompson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ausar Thompson<\/a> had 19 points for Detroit, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4432810\/isaiah-stewart\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Isaiah Stewart<\/a> added 16 points off the bench.<\/p>\n<p>              <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3978\/demar-derozan\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">DeMar DeRozan<\/a> scored 37 points and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3468\/russell-westbrook\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Russell Westbrook<\/a> had 27 for the Kings, who have lost 10 of 12.<\/p>\n<p>              Westbrook had four assists to reach 10,140 for his career, one short of Magic Johnson for seventh in NBA history.<\/p>\n<p>              The Pistons, who lead the NBA in points in the paint at 58.1 per game, had 70 points inside to the Kings&#8217; 48.<\/p>\n<p>              Detroit led 75-58 at halftime and 115-97 after three quarters. Sacramento closed within eight in the final period but got no closer.<\/p>\n<p>              Up next&#13;<\/p>\n<p>              Pistons: At Utah on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>              Kings: Host Dallas on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>              &#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>              AP NBA: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SACRAMENTO, Calif. &#8212; \u2014 Cade Cunningham had 23 points and 14 assists, Jalen Duren had 23 points and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-368589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368589","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=368589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}