{"id":677669,"date":"2026-05-18T01:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T01:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/677669\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T01:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T01:00:09","slug":"nba-playoffs-odds-picks-best-bets-for-cavaliers-vs-pistons-game-7-on-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/677669\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Playoffs odds, picks, best bets for Cavaliers vs Pistons Game 7 on Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Cleveland Cavaliers<\/a>\u00a0couldn’t take advantage of a 3-2 series lead and playing Game 6 on their home court to close out their Eastern Conference semifinals series Friday. The Detroit Pistons<\/a>\u00a0cruised to a 21-point victory to set up Sunday’s Game 7 in the Motor City. Detroit will host the winner-take-all clash at 8 p.m. ET. The winner will advance to the Eastern Conference Finals to face the New York Knicks<\/a>. The East champ will take on the Western Conference winner in the\u00a0NBA<\/a>\u00a0Finals, with the San Antonio Spurs<\/a> and the defending-champion Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a>\u00a0facing off in that West matchup. Detroit is a 4.5-point favorite and the game total is set at 205.5 for Game 7, according to the latest NBA odds at FanDuel Sportsbook.<\/p>\n

Ahead of Sunday’s Game 7 matchup, were diving into the NBA best bets for Cavaliers vs. Pistons using the SportsLine Projection Model<\/a>, which simulates every NBA game 10,000 times. The model has returned well over $10,000 in\u00a0betting<\/a>\u00a0profit for $100 players on its top-rated\u00a0NBA picks<\/a>\u00a0over the past eight-plus seasons.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The model entered the second round of the 2026 NBA playoffs on a sizzling 26-9 roll (74%) on top-rated NBA spread picks this season. Anyone following its\u00a0NBA betting<\/a>\u00a0advice at\u00a0sportsbooks<\/a>\u00a0and on\u00a0betting apps<\/a>\u00a0could have seen huge returns. So let’s dive into the best NBA bets today for Game 7 with all odds courtesy of FanDuel Sportsbook.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Check out the FanDuel promo code<\/a>\u00a0before placing bets on the NBA Playoffs on Sunday.<\/p>\n

NBA Playoffs picks, best bets for Sunday, May 17Pistons money linePistons-Cavaliers Over 205.5Cade Cunningham<\/a> Over 8.5 assistsPistons money line<\/p>\n

The Pistons have had their backs against the wall quite a bit this postseason despite being the No. 1 seed in the Eastern Conference, as they fell behind 3-1 in the first round to Orlando before storming back to win that series. They then were down 3-2 before an emphatic 21-point road win in Game 6 to set up Game 7 at home. The Pistons win Game 7 in nearly 75% of the SportsLine model’s simulations, good for an ‘A’ grade. They’re also 5-2 at home this postseason.<\/p>\n

Cavaliers-Pistons Over 205.5<\/p>\n

It’s honestly a bit surprising that the total is this low for Game 7 considering how this series has gone. These teams have cleared this line in five of the first six games of this series. Additionally, Cleveland’s first-round games went seven games with six going Over this line, while four of Detroit’s seven first-round games went Over 205.5 as well. The Over hits in more than 60% of simulations.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Cade Cunningham Over 8.5 assists<\/p>\n

Cunningham averaged 9.9 assists per game in the regular season, good for second in the NBA, and is averaging 7.7 per game this postseason and 8.3 this series. Cunningham has gone Over 8.5 assists three times thus far against the Cavs, and in this pivotal Game 7, the model has the star Detroit guard projected for 9.6 assists.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Imagn Images The Cleveland Cavaliers\u00a0couldn’t take advantage of a 3-2 series lead and playing Game 6 on their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":676932,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,615,19704,326627,255064,255065,17603,7214,23659,590,149332,152039,139020,139019,139953,314222,315140,139951,1666,5548,10549,85],"class_list":["post-677669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-betting","tag-cade-cunningham","tag-cade-cunningham-props","tag-cavaliers-pistons-odds","tag-cavaliers-pistons-picks","tag-cleveland-cavaliers","tag-detroit-pistons","tag-donovan-mitchell","tag-nba","tag-nba-best-bets","tag-nba-injury-report","tag-nba-odds","tag-nba-picks","tag-nba-player-props","tag-nba-playoff-odds","tag-nba-playoff-props","tag-nba-predictions","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","tag-san-antonio-spurs","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677669","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=677669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/676932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}