{"id":650851,"date":"2026-05-06T05:01:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T05:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/650851\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T05:01:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T05:01:14","slug":"cade-cunningham-scores-23-tobias-harris-has-20-to-help-pistons-beat-cavs-111-101-in-game-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/650851\/","title":{"rendered":"Cade Cunningham scores 23, Tobias Harris has 20 to help Pistons beat Cavs 111-101 in Game 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

DETROIT (AP) \u2014 Cade Cunningham<\/a> scored 23 points, Tobias Harris had 20 and the Detroit Pistons beat the Cleveland Cavaliers 111-101 on Tuesday night in Game 1 of their second-round series.<\/p>\n

Duncan Robinson added 19 points for the top-seeded Pistons, who ended an NBA<\/a> record-tying 12-game postseason losing streak against a single opponent, a drought that dated to the 2007 Eastern Conference finals.<\/p>\n

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Game 2 is Thursday night in Detroit.<\/p>\n

The Pistons forced 20 turnovers that led to 31 points in a strong performance against Cleveland’s potent backcourt of Donovan Mitchell and James Harden.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat’s what this series presents, but we’re up for a challenge,” Harris said. “I thought tonight we did a great job of that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mitchell scored 23 points, ending his NBA-record streak of scoring 30-plus points in nine straight series openers.<\/p>\n

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Harden had 22 points and Max Strus scored 19 for the No. 4-seeded Cavs, who pulled into a tie midway through the fourth quarter after trailing for most of the night and by as much as 18 points.<\/p>\n

Harden committed seven turnovers and pointed the blame at himself.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou look within first,\u201d he said. \u201cLook at my turnovers and a lot of them are just on me and nothing they did.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cleveland center Jarrett Allen was limited to two points and three rebounds, coming off a 22-point, 19-rebound performance in an elimination game against Toronto.<\/p>\n

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Two days after both teams won a Game 7, the Pistons started strong and led 37-31 after a quarter. Detroit took a 59-46 lead into the second half, when the cushion was no longer comfortable.<\/p>\n

Cleveland pulled within three points late in the third and Ron Holland hit a buzzer-beating 3-pointer to end the quarter and put the Pistons up 83-76.<\/p>\n

After the Cavs cut their deficit to three again early in the fourth, the Pistons responded with eight consecutive points to restore a double-digit lead.<\/p>\n

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Cleveland, though, wouldn\u2019t go away.<\/p>\n

Harden, playing the Pistons for the first time since Cleveland acquired him, scored seven straight points to pull the Cavs into a 93-all tie with 5:28 left.<\/p>\n

Jalen Duren blocked Harden\u2019s next shot and dunked on Detroit\u2019s next three possessions \u2014 each off Cunningham assists.<\/p>\n

The Pistons won the Central Division this year by eight games ahead of the defending champion Cavs, splitting four games during the regular season.<\/p>\n

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Detroit earned 60 victories and the top seed in the East just two years after losing 68 games and setting a single-season NBA record with 28 straight losses.<\/p>\n

The Pistons rallied from a 3-1 deficit in the first round against Orlando to advance in the playoffs for the first time since 2008.<\/p>\n

Cleveland outlasted Toronto in seven games to reach the second round for the third straight year, a run that started with Bickerstaff, who was fired by the Cavs<\/a> and hired a month later<\/a> by the Pistons.<\/p>\n

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

Larry Lage, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DETROIT (AP) \u2014 Cade Cunningham scored 23 points, Tobias Harris had 20 and the Detroit Pistons beat the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":650852,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,24617,48,2357,128032,8028,2358,14732,18735,16546,16550,459,16514,82,235535,51171,3302],"class_list":["post-650851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-cade-cunningham","tag-canada","tag-cleveland-cavaliers","tag-consecutive-points","tag-detroit-pistons","tag-donovan-mitchell","tag-duncan-robinson","tag-jalen-duren","tag-jarrett-allen","tag-max-strus","tag-nba","tag-orlando","tag-sports","tag-straight-points","tag-tobias-harris","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650851","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=650851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/650852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}