{"id":550890,"date":"2026-03-19T16:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T16:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/550890\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T16:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T16:16:08","slug":"detroit-pistons-star-cade-cunningham-to-miss-extended-time-with-collapsed-lung-detroit-pistons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/550890\/","title":{"rendered":"Detroit Pistons star Cade Cunningham to miss extended time with collapsed lung | Detroit Pistons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">All-Star guard Cade Cunningham of the Eastern Conference-leading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/detroit-pistons\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Detroit Pistons<\/a> has a collapsed lung and is expected to miss at least two weeks and possibly more, a person with knowledge of the situation told the Associated Press on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The exact timeline for a return to play is still unknown, the person said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The regular season ends in less than four weeks. The Pistons \u2013 who listed Cunningham as out for Thursday\u2019s game in Washington with a back contusion \u2013 wouldn\u2019t start their playoff run until 18 or 19 April.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">ESPN <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/48248405\/sources-pistons-cade-cunningham-collapsed-lung\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">first reported<\/a> the details of the injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Cunningham was hurt in Tuesday\u2019s win over Washington, leaving midway through the opening quarter with back spasms. He dove for a loose ball and collided into Wizards guard Tre Johnson, then seemed to be laboring until he checked out a minute later later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Cunningham is averaging 24.5 points and 9.9 assists for the Pistons, who are on pace for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/mar\/13\/detroit-pistons-new-bad-boys-cade-cunningham-defense-resurgence\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">their best season in nearly two decades<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Detroit entered Thursday 49-19, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/standings\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">three and a half games ahead of Boston<\/a> for the top spot in the East with 14 games remaining. Cunningham has played in 61 games this season, so an extended absence could also mean he doesn\u2019t reach the 65-game threshold for eligibility for awards like the All-NBA team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All-Star guard Cade Cunningham of the Eastern Conference-leading Detroit Pistons has a collapsed lung and is expected to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":550891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-550890","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\/550890","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=550890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/550891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}