Cleveland Cavaliers (37-23, fourth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Detroit Pistons (43-14, first in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
Detroit; Friday, 7 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Cade Cunningham and the Detroit Pistons host Jarrett Allen and the Cleveland Cavaliers in Eastern Conference action.<\/p>\n
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The Pistons are 28-7 in Eastern Conference games. Detroit is 8-4 in games decided by less than 4 points.<\/p>\n
The Cavaliers have gone 23-14 against Eastern Conference opponents. Cleveland ranks eighth in the Eastern Conference shooting 35.8% from 3-point range.<\/p>\n
The Pistons are shooting 47.9% from the field this season, 1.8 percentage points higher than the 46.1% the Cavaliers allow to opponents. The Cavaliers average 14.5 made 3-pointers per game this season, 1.7 more made shots on average than the 12.8 per game the Pistons give up.<\/p>\n
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The teams meet for the third time this season. The Pistons won 114-110 in the last matchup on Jan. 4.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Cunningham is averaging 25.4 points, 5.7 rebounds, 9.8 assists and 1.5 steals for the Pistons. Duncan Robinson is averaging 3.4 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Allen is averaging 15.1 points and 8.6 rebounds for the Cavaliers. Sam Merrill is averaging 12.3 points over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Pistons: 8-2, averaging 119.1 points, 46.6 rebounds, 27.1 assists, 10.6 steals and 6.6 blocks per game while shooting 48.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 105.4 points per game.<\/p>\n
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Cavaliers: 8-2, averaging 121.1 points, 43.8 rebounds, 28.6 assists, 10.0 steals and 5.1 blocks per game while shooting 50.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 108.8 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Pistons: None listed.<\/p>\n
Cavaliers: Donovan Mitchell: day to day (groin), Max Strus: out (foot), Evan Mobley: day to day (injury maintenance), James Harden: day to day (thumb).<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cleveland Cavaliers (37-23, fourth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Detroit Pistons (43-14, first in the Eastern Conference) Detroit;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,24617,48,2357,8028,2358,14732,23934,37217,1525,16546,16550,459,49961,82],"class_list":["post-500834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-cade-cunningham","tag-canada","tag-cleveland-cavaliers","tag-detroit-pistons","tag-donovan-mitchell","tag-duncan-robinson","tag-eastern-conference","tag-evan-mobley","tag-james-harden","tag-jarrett-allen","tag-max-strus","tag-nba","tag-sam-merrill","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500834","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=500834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}