{"id":371862,"date":"2025-12-27T20:20:38","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T20:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/371862\/"},"modified":"2025-12-27T20:20:38","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T20:20:38","slug":"keyonte-george-hits-game-winner-as-utah-jazz-edge-detroit-pistons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/371862\/","title":{"rendered":"Keyonte George hits game-winner as Utah Jazz edge Detroit Pistons"},"content":{"rendered":"

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) \u2014 Keyonte George<\/a> scored 31 points and hit a floater in the lane with 2.1 seconds remaining as the Utah Jazz<\/a> snapped a four-game losing streak with a 131-129 win over the Detroit Pistons<\/a> on Friday night.<\/p>\n

Cade Cunningham<\/a>, who had 29 points and 17 assists, missed a contested shot at the buzzer and then had a long conversation with the officials before leaving the court. Cunningham had a personal-best 13 assists in the first half.<\/p>\n

Lauri Markkanen<\/a> scored 30 points and Brice Sensabaugh<\/a> equaled his season high of 20 points filling in for Ace Bailey<\/a>, who missed the second half with a hip injury. <\/p>\n

Tobias Harris<\/a> had 16 points for the Pistons, who lost for just the second time in their last nine games despite shooting 52.2% from the field and making 18 of 37 from 3-point range.<\/p>\n

George stole a backcourt pass and threw down a breakaway dunk to give the Jazz a 129-125 lead with 1:14 remaining. Caris LaVert blocked George and Cunningham stole the ball. Cunningham\u2019s free throws tied the game at 129-129.<\/p>\n

Utah\u2019s largest lead came with 2:34 left in the third quarter, 104-89, after Kevin Love<\/a>\u2019s three free throws. Love had 11 in the period as the Jazz outscored the usually stingy Pistons 44-35. <\/p>\n

Detroit rallied in the fourth quarter but couldn\u2019t stop George on the decisive possession.<\/p>\n

The Eastern Conference-leading Pistons have the second-best defensive rating in the league behind Oklahoma City, but they had a difficult time staying with Markkanen and George as they ran off multiple screens.<\/p>\n

The Jazz have yielded an average of 134.4 points in their last five games but had a block, three steals and some pressure defense down the stretch to clinch the win.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Pistons: At the Los Angeles Clippers<\/a> on Sunday as they continue their nine-day road trip.<\/p>\n

Jazz: At San Antonio on Saturday.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/nba<\/p>\n

Matthew Coles, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SALT LAKE CITY (AP) \u2014 Keyonte George scored 31 points and hit a floater in the lane with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371863,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-371862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}