SAN ANTONIO (AP) \u2014 Victor Wembanyama had 38 points, 16 rebounds and five blocks and the San Antonio Spurs never trailed in completing a sweep of Detroit, beating the Pistons 121-106 on Thursday night.<\/p>\n
De\u2019Aaron Fox had 29 points, and Stephon Castle added 11 points and 12 assists in San Antonio\u2019s first game at home after a nearly a month-long trip. <\/p>\n
Cade Cunningham had 26 points and Isaiah Stewart added 18 points in Detroit\u2019s second straight loss. The Pistons, who closed their trip 1-2, remained atop the Eastern Conference at 45-16.<\/p>\n
A potential NBA Finals matchup resulted in another double-digit victory for the red-hot Spurs. <\/p>\n
San Antonio has won 13 of 14 games, including a 114-103 victory over the Pistons on Feb. 23 in Detroit, and remain second in the West at 45-17.<\/p>\n
The Spurs rolled to a 10-2 lead in their first game in San Antonio since Feb. 7. The lead expanded to 17 points in the opening quarter as the Spurs shot 54% on 3-pointers.<\/p>\n
Detroit lost Ausur Thompson two minutes into the game when he sprained his right ankle.<\/p>\n
San Antonio was 13 for 37 on 3-pointers in shooting 35%.<\/p>\n
Wembanyama was 4 for 10 on 3-pointers while playing before 30 of his countrymen who traveled from France to attend San Antonio\u2019s six-game homestand. <\/p>\n
Wembanyama had back-to-back dunks in the second quarter, including grabbing his own miss and throwing it down for what became a three-point play on a foul by Javonte Green.<\/p>\n
In the fourth quarter, Wembanyama blocked Cunningham\u2019s running floater then ran downcourt for an alley-oop dunk off a feed from Devin Vassell to give the Spurs a 103-90 lead.<\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
Pistons: Host Brooklyn on Saturday night.<\/p>\n
Spurs: Host the Los Angeles Clippers on Friday night.<\/p>\n
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AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba<\/p>\n
Raul Dominguez, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO (AP) \u2014 Victor Wembanyama had 38 points, 16 rebounds and five blocks and the San Antonio…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":517374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-517373","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\/517373","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=517373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}