Brooklyn Nets (13-34, 13th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Detroit Pistons (34-12, first in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
Detroit; Sunday, 6 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Cade Cunningham and the Detroit Pistons host Nic Claxton and the Brooklyn Nets.<\/p>\n
The Pistons are 22-6 in conference games. Detroit is second in the Eastern Conference in team defense, allowing only 110.1 points while holding opponents to 44.3% shooting.<\/p>\n
The Nets are 9-19 in Eastern Conference play. Brooklyn ranks last in the league with 40.2 rebounds per game led by Claxton averaging 7.5.<\/p>\n
The Pistons score 116.8 points per game, 2.4 more points than the 114.4 the Nets give up. The Nets average 14.0 made 3-pointers per game this season, 1.4 more made shots on average than the 12.6 per game the Pistons give up.<\/p>\n
The teams play for the second time this season. In the last matchup on Nov. 8 the Pistons won 125-107 led by 34 points from Cunningham, while Michael Porter Jr. scored 28 points for the Nets.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Cunningham is averaging 25.3 points, 5.7 rebounds, 9.7 assists and 1.5 steals for the Pistons. Duncan Robinson is averaging 3.2 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Day’Ron Sharpe is scoring 8.0 points per game and averaging 6.4 rebounds for the Nets. Egor Demin is averaging 2.5 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Pistons: 7-3, averaging 109.3 points, 43.5 rebounds, 26.6 assists, 11.6 steals and 6.5 blocks per game while shooting 46.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 102.9 points per game.<\/p>\n
Nets: 2-8, averaging 103.9 points, 40.8 rebounds, 25.4 assists, 6.4 steals and 4.1 blocks per game while shooting 43.6% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 116.3 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Pistons: Caris LeVert: day to day (illness).<\/p>\n
Nets: Haywood Highsmith: out (knee), Michael Porter Jr.: day to day (personal), Ziaire Williams: day to day (calf), Noah Clowney: day to day (back).<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brooklyn Nets (13-34, 13th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Detroit Pistons (34-12, first in the Eastern Conference) Detroit;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[232511,4225,64,63,590,31647,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-449421","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-232511","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-au","11":"tag-australia","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-nba-basketball","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449421","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=449421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}