{"id":648969,"date":"2026-05-04T12:09:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T12:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/648969\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T12:09:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T12:09:09","slug":"nba-play-offs-detroit-pistons-and-cleveland-cavaliers-advance-to-eastern-conference-semi-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/648969\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA play-offs: Detroit Pistons and Cleveland Cavaliers advance to Eastern Conference semi-finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Detroit Pistons fought back from a 3-1 deficit to beat the Orlando Magic in the NBA play-offs and advance to the Eastern Conference semi-finals. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Pistons won the final match of their best-of-seven series 116-94, their first play-off series win since 2008.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They are the 15th team in NBA history to come back from 3-1 down, and the second in the space of two days after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/basketball\/articles\/cqxp88zxq8vo\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Philadelphia 76ers beat the Boston Celtics.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cade Cunningham top-scored for the Pistons with 32 points and 12 assists, while Tobias Harris added 30 points. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We had a great regular season, we built a lot of momentum going into these play-offs,&#8221; said Cunningham.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;To lose in the first round would have really stung. To come back from 3-1, odds against us, and to come back and win it at home &#8211; it feels good.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Pistons will face the Cleveland Cavaliers in the semi-finals, another best-of-seven series starting on 5 May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Detroit Pistons fought back from a 3-1 deficit to beat the Orlando Magic in the NBA play-offs&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":648970,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-648969","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\/648969","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=648969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}