{"id":388555,"date":"2026-01-04T23:41:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T23:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/388555\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T23:41:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T23:41:17","slug":"cade-cunningham-leads-east-leading-detroit-pistons-over-cleveland-cavaliers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/388555\/","title":{"rendered":"Cade Cunningham leads East-leading Detroit Pistons over Cleveland Cavaliers"},"content":{"rendered":"

CLEVELAND (AP) \u2014 Cade Cunningham<\/a> scored 27 points, Daniss Jenkins<\/a> added 25 \u2014 21 in the second quarter alone \u2014 and the Detroit Pistons<\/a> held on down the stretch for a rare road win at Cleveland, beating the Cavaliers 114-110 on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Despite playing without two starters, the Eastern Conference-leading Pistons snapped a nine-game losing streak at Rocket Arena and beat the Cavaliers for just the second time in 15 games.<\/p>\n

Donovan Mitchell<\/a> scored 30 \u2014 23 after halftime \u2014 to pace Cleveland, which trailed by 13 with less than five minutes to go before cutting Detroit\u2019s lead to 108-106 on Darius Garland<\/a>\u2019s basket with 1:16 left.<\/p>\n

However, Pistons forward Ausar Thompson<\/a> scored on a tip-in with 17.2 seconds remaining, and Jenkins made four free throws in the final 5.7 seconds to put the Cavs away.<\/p>\n

Cunningham went 11 for 11 from the line and the Pistons made all 21 free-throw attempts.<\/p>\n

Cleveland\u2019s Darius Garland<\/a> scored 16 but went 0 for 7 on 3-pointers. Evan Mobley<\/a> and Sam Merrill<\/a> added 15 points apiece for the Cavs, who saw their winning streak stopped at three.<\/p>\n

With his 21-point outburst on 7-for-7 shooting in the second, Jenkins set the franchise scoring record for a Pistons reserve in one quarter. He broke the previous mark of 20 points shared by Ron Holland (2024) and Jodie Meeks<\/a> (2014).<\/p>\n

The Pistons were without starters Tobias Harris<\/a> (hip) and Jalen Duren<\/a> (ankle) and reserve Caris LeVert<\/a> (knee) because of injuries. Harris, whom coach J.B. Bickerstaff calls his \u201csafety blanket,\u201d could miss several weeks.<\/p>\n

Jenkins gave the Pistons some instant offense and a needed lift in the second by making six 3-pointers \u2014 and converting a three-point play \u2014 as Detroit scored a season-high 47 points in the period to open a 66-56 halftime lead.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Pistons: Host New York on Monday.<\/p>\n

Cavaliers: At Indiana on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

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

Tom Withers, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLEVELAND (AP) \u2014 Cade Cunningham scored 27 points, Daniss Jenkins added 25 \u2014 21 in the second quarter…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388556,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-388555","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\/388555","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=388555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}