{"id":548165,"date":"2026-03-18T10:49:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T10:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/548165\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T10:49:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T10:49:23","slug":"pistons-guard-cade-cunningham-leaves-game-with-back-spasms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/548165\/","title":{"rendered":"Pistons guard Cade Cunningham leaves game with back spasms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2110440\" class=\"wp-image-2110440 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/cunningham-injured-1920-2267119777.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2110440\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cade Cunningham is averaging 25 points, 10 assists and 5.6 rebounds this season.<\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Detroit Pistons guard Cade Cunningham, a two-time All-Star who is among the leaders in the NBA MVP race, left Tuesday night\u2019s game against the Washington Wizards with back spasms.<\/p>\n<p>The Detroit News reported that Cunningham was injured early in the first quarter while diving for a loose ball. He played for a few more minutes before being taken out at the 6:40 mark.<\/p>\n<p>The team said during the second quarter he would not return.<\/p>\n<p>Cunningham is averaging 25 points, 10 assists and 5.6 rebounds this season. He had six points and two rebounds in 5 minutes, 20 seconds on Tuesday night before leaving the game.<\/p>\n<p>Cunningham has played in 61 games this season. A player must appear in 65 games to qualify for major postseason awards like MVP and All-NBA teams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cade Cunningham is averaging 25 points, 10 assists and 5.6 rebounds this season. WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Detroit Pistons&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":548166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,271235,85],"class_list":["post-548165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-cunningham-leaves-game-with-back-spasms","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548165","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=548165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}