{"id":182998,"date":"2026-03-08T09:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T09:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/182998\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T09:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T09:18:08","slug":"detroit-faces-miami-on-3-game-skid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/182998\/","title":{"rendered":"Detroit faces Miami on 3-game skid"},"content":{"rendered":"

Detroit Pistons<\/a> (45-17, first in the Eastern Conference) vs. Miami Heat<\/a> (35-29, seventh in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n

Miami; Sunday, 6 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Pistons -1.5; over\/under is 229.5<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Detroit enters the matchup with Miami as losers of three straight games.<\/p>\n

The Heat are 19-18 against Eastern Conference opponents. Miami is second in the NBA<\/a> averaging 120.1 points and is shooting 46.5% from the field.<\/p>\n

The Pistons have gone 30-9 against Eastern Conference opponents. Detroit ranks third in the league with 13.3 offensive rebounds per game led by Jalen Duren<\/a> averaging 3.9.<\/p>\n

The 120.1 points per game the Heat average are 10.5 more points than the Pistons give up (109.6). The Pistons average 10.8 made 3-pointers per game this season, 3.0 fewer made shots on average than the 13.8 per game the Heat allow.<\/p>\n

The teams meet for the third time this season. The Heat won 118-112 in the last matchup on Jan. 2. Norman Powell<\/a> led the Heat with 36 points, and Cade Cunningham<\/a> led the Pistons with 31 points.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Andrew Wiggins<\/a> is scoring 15.9 points per game and averaging 5.1 rebounds for the Heat. Bam Adebayo<\/a> is averaging 21.9 points and 10.1 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Cunningham is averaging 25.2 points, 5.8 rebounds, 9.8 assists and 1.5 steals for the Pistons. Duncan Robinson<\/a> is averaging 2.5 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Heat: 7-3, averaging 122.5 points, 49.2 rebounds, 28.3 assists, 8.2 steals and 5.3 blocks per game while shooting 47.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 112.8 points per game.<\/p>\n

Pistons: 6-4, averaging 114.0 points, 48.5 rebounds, 25.8 assists, 10.2 steals and 7.1 blocks per game while shooting 46.1% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 109.8 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Heat: Nikola Jovic: out (back), Andrew Wiggins: day to day (toe), Norman Powell: out (groin), Simone Fontecchio<\/a>: out (groin).<\/p>\n

Pistons: Ausar Thompson<\/a>: day to day (ankle), Cade Cunningham: day to day (quadriceps).<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Detroit Pistons (45-17, first in the Eastern Conference) vs. Miami Heat (35-29, seventh in the Eastern Conference) Miami;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[40936,86234,15960,38323,5834,38475,70652,53582,123,125,2490,124,16489,15966,45012],"class_list":["post-182998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-andrew-wiggins","tag-ausar-thompson","tag-bam-adebayo","tag-cade-cunningham","tag-detroit-pistons","tag-duncan-robinson","tag-event_preview","tag-jalen-duren","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-heat","tag-miami-news","tag-national-basketball-association","tag-norman-powell","tag-simone-fontecchio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}