{"id":452779,"date":"2026-02-02T02:37:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T02:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/452779\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T02:37:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T02:37:09","slug":"pistons-set-franchise-record-in-53-point-rout-of-nets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/452779\/","title":{"rendered":"Pistons set franchise record in 53-point rout of Nets"},"content":{"rendered":"

DETROIT — Jalen Duren<\/a> had 21 points and 10 rebounds after being added to the All-Star Game on Sunday night as an Eastern Conference reserve, and the Detroit Pistons<\/a> routed the Brooklyn Nets<\/a> 130-77<\/a> in the most-lopsided victory in franchise history.<\/p>\n

The 53-point margin topped the mark of 52 set in a 118-66 victory at Boston on Jan 31, 2003. The Nets had a 54-point loss — 120-66 — on Jan. 21 against New York.<\/p>\n

Cade Cunningham<\/a>, the Detroit star who was earlier selected an East All-Star starter, added 18 points, 12 assists and 4 steals. The Eastern Conference-leading Pistons improved to 36-12 with their second straight victory. They beat Golden State on Friday night to finish 2-1 on a three-game trip.<\/p>\n

Cunningham had 13 points, 10 assists and 4 steals in the first half as the Pistons raced to a 67-44 lead. Ausar Thompson<\/a> hit a half-court shot<\/a> at the halftime buzzer.<\/p>\n

Detroit outscored Brooklyn 33-18 in the third quarter to push it to 100-62. The Pistons’ largest lead was 55 points.<\/p>\n

Cam Thomas<\/a> and Drake Powell<\/a> each had 12 points for Brooklyn. The Nets are 13-35.<\/p>\n

Egor Demin<\/a> was 0-for-4 from 3-point range, ending his NBA rookie record of at least one 3 in 34 straight games. He broke the record Friday night in Utah.<\/p>\n

Nets scoring leader Michael Porter Jr<\/a>. sat out because of personal reasons.<\/p>\n

The Associated Press contributed to this report. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DETROIT — Jalen Duren had 21 points and 10 rebounds after being added to the All-Star Game on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":452780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-452779","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452779","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=452779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}