Baltimore Orioles<\/a> last July.<\/p>\n“It was an amazing experience,” Cunningham said at the time. “To come back to the sports teams that I grew up supporting and loving, it’s amazing.”<\/p>\n
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Two-time NBA All-Star Cade Cunningham of the Pistons threw out a first pitch for his hometown Texas Rangers last July.\u00a0AP Photo\/Julio Cortez<\/p>\n
Cunningham, who is averaging 25.3 points, 9.6 assists and 5.6 rebounds this season, will play in the NBA All-Star Game on Sunday for the USA Stars. It is the second All-Star nod for the 2021 No. 1 overall pick.<\/p>\n
He signed a five-year max rookie extension in 2024 that could become worth as much a $269 million. He also reached a new six-year endorsement agreement<\/a> with Nike in November that included a signature shoe deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Feb 12, 2026, 03:46 PM ET Detroit Pistons All-Star Cade Cunningham has purchased a minority ownership stake in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471069,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-471068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471068","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=471068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}