{"id":674172,"date":"2026-05-16T06:23:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T06:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/674172\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T06:23:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T06:23:13","slug":"nba-playoffs-2026-detroit-pistons-win-game-six-against-cleveland-cavaliers-to-take-series-to-game-seven-cade-cunningham-leads-the-way-with-21-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/674172\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Playoffs 2026: Detroit Pistons win game six against Cleveland Cavaliers to take series to game seven, Cade Cunningham leads the way with 21 points"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cade Cunningham scored 21 points as the Detroit Pistons staved off elimination from the NBA playoffs with a 115-94 victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers in their NBA Eastern Conference semi-final series on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The top-seeded Pistons &#8212; trailing 3-2 in the best-of-seven series before Friday\u2019s must-win game in Cleveland &#8212; produced a dazzling early onslaught to build a double-digit lead that proved the difference between the two sides.<\/p>\n<p>\ufeffWatch NBA with ESPN on Kayo Sports | Stream an average 9 LIVE Regular Season games per week plus the best of the NBA Playoffs.| New to Kayo? <a href=\"https:\/\/kayosports.com.au\/en-AU\/welcome?pg=default&amp;extcamp=fsaeditoriallinkbasketball-edt-fsp-lnk-awr-grc-basketball-kyo&amp;channel=fsa&amp;campaign=fsacontra&amp;voucher=\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Join now and get your first month for just $1.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img class=\"i-amphtml-fill-content i-amphtml-replaced-content\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1776909012_441_poster-fallback.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Cleveland, unbeaten at their Rocket Arena home so far this postseason, will now have to win on the road in Sunday\u2019s decisive game seven in Detroit to advance.<\/p>\n<p>Cunningham\u2019s 21 points included five three-pointers, while at the defensive end, Detroit centre Jalen Duren delivered a dominant performance that included 11 rebounds, three blocks and a steal.<\/p>\n<p>Cunningham was one of six Pistons players to finish in double figures, with Paul Reed adding 17 off the bench, and Duren and Daniss Jenkins scoring 15 points apiece.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re just playing our brand of basketball, coming out competing, trying to execute our system to the best of our ability, and we\u2019re together,\u201d Cunningham said afterwards.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe stick together through everything, so it\u2019s a great win for us.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Cade Cunningham #2 of the Detroit Pistons walks off the court after defeating the Cleveland Cavaliers 115-94.Source: AFP<\/p>\n<p>James Harden led Cleveland\u2019s scoring with 23 points while Donovan Mitchell was restricted to 18 points.<\/p>\n<p>The Cavs started Friday\u2019s game brightly, opening up a six-point lead in the first quarter before the Pistons started firing to take a grip on the contest.<\/p>\n<p>A devastating 22-4 run by Detroit saw the visitors accelerate into a commanding 39-27 lead in the second quarter and although Cleveland closed the gap to 54-51 at halftime, the Pistons regrouped impressively to snuff out the Cavs\u2019 threat with a 30-19 third quarter.<\/p>\n<p>That left Detroit leading by 14 points heading into the fourth and the result was never in doubt, with the Pistons maintaining a double-digit lead to close out victory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cade Cunningham scored 21 points as the Detroit Pistons staved off elimination from the NBA playoffs with a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":674173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[2620,2095,64,63,726,19704,6115,17603,325192,12266,7214,12183,165193,800,2105,325193,1173,7896,8440,67131,2041,2067,12293,19705,262593,325191,85,209909,2614,325194],"class_list":["post-674172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-agence-france-presse","tag-america","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-cade-cunningham","tag-cleveland","tag-cleveland-cavaliers","tag-cutthroat-wins-sets","tag-detroit","tag-detroit-pistons","tag-dominant-performance","tag-double-digit-lead","tag-espn-inc","tag-getty-images-inc","tag-gregory-shamus","tag-james-harden","tag-lebron-james","tag-michigan","tag-must-win-game","tag-north-america","tag-northern-america","tag-ohio","tag-paul-reed","tag-points-heading","tag-semi-final-series","tag-sports","tag-top-seed","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-win-game"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674172","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=674172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/674173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}