{"id":238403,"date":"2026-04-20T02:21:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T02:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/238403\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T02:21:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T02:21:23","slug":"magic-beat-pistons-to-extend-nbas-longest-home-postseason-skid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/238403\/","title":{"rendered":"Magic beat Pistons to extend NBA&#8217;s longest home postseason skid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paolo Banchero had 23 points, nine rebounds and four assists to lead the eighth-seeded Orlando Magic to a 112-101 win over the top-seeded Detroit Pistons on Sunday night in Game 1 of their first-round series, extending the longest home playoff losing streak in NBA history.<\/p>\n<p>Detroit has dropped 11 straight home games in the postseason, a drought that dates to 2008.<\/p>\n<p>The Pistons will get another chance against Orlando on Wednesday night in Game 2.<\/p>\n<p>Detroit&#8217;s Cade Cunningham scored a playoff career-high 39 points and Tobias Harris added 17 for the Pistons, but the rest of their teammates were quiet offensively.<\/p>\n<p>Franz Wagner scored 11 of his 19 points in the fourth quarter to help seal the victory for the Magic, who never trailed. Orlando&#8217;s Desmond Bane and Wendell Carter scored 17 points each and Jalen Suggs had 16.<\/p>\n<p>The Pistons haven&#8217;t advanced beyond the first round in the postseason in 18 years and the Magic haven&#8217;t since 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Orlando looked ready, and Detroit looked rusty early.<\/p>\n<p>The Magic, coming off a rout of Charlotte in a play-in game on Friday, led 18-5 midway through the first quarter after holding the Pistons to 1-of-6 shooting with four turnovers in their first game in a week.<\/p>\n<p>Detroit rallied to pull within two before Orlando closed with six straight points to lead 35-27 after Banchero and Suggs combined to score 20 points.<\/p>\n<p>The Magic led 55-51 at halftime.<\/p>\n<p>The Pistons came out flat in the second half and Orlando took advantage, scoring eight of the first nine points and prompting Detroit coach J.B. Bickerstaff to call a timeout.<\/p>\n<p>Detroit scored 10 straight points and 13 of 15 to pull into a 65-all tie on Cunningham&#8217;s 3-pointer.<\/p>\n<p>Banchero answered with a long jumper over Jalen Duren and Bane followed with a 3-pointer over Cunningham, leading to the Magic restoring a double-digit lead. Orlando led 81-74 going into the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paolo Banchero had 23 points, nine rebounds and four assists to lead the eighth-seeded Orlando Magic to a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[5834,2295,92028,139,141,1239,140,110],"class_list":["post-238403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-detroit-pistons","tag-nba","tag-nba-playoffs","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-magic","tag-orlando-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238403","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=238403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}