{"id":590247,"date":"2026-04-07T01:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T01:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/590247\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T01:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T01:17:08","slug":"pistons-cade-cunningham-nearing-return-from-collapsed-lung","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/590247\/","title":{"rendered":"Pistons&#8217; Cade Cunningham nearing return from collapsed lung"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-player-guid=\"c28c6569-86f0-3c1e-bcab-b946fbc06ff6\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4432166\/cade-cunningham\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cade Cunningham<\/a> was upgraded to doubtful to play in Monday night&#8217;s game against the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"74c23102-8c27-c8e6-ec1b-8a8fd4d42554\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/orl\/orlando-magic\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Orlando Magic<\/a> before being ruled out, signaling the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"4e096981-dc02-51d0-3dcd-2468fcc1e22d\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/det\/detroit-pistons\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Detroit Pistons<\/a>&#8216; All-Star point guard could be nearing a return with the playoffs fast approaching.<\/p>\n<p>Cunningham has been out since March 19 while recovering from a collapsed left lung but has entered a return to play protocol, according to ESPN&#8217;s Shams Charania.<\/p>\n<p>Including Monday&#8217;s game, the Pistons have four remaining in the regular season. There is optimism Cunningham will be back potentially before the playoffs begin, according to Charania.<\/p>\n<p>The Pistons have thrived despite Cunningham&#8217;s absence, clinching the No. 1 overall seed in the Eastern Conference with a win over the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"ca1685ed-b799-53e4-7924-e58ea6eb8f3a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/phi\/philadelphia-76ers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia 76ers<\/a> on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Before the injury, Cunningham was in MVP talks after averaging 24.5 points and 9.9 assists for the most dominant team in the East.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cade Cunningham was upgraded to doubtful to play in Monday night&#8217;s game against the Orlando Magic before being&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590248,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-590247","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590247","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=590247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}