{"id":242811,"date":"2026-04-23T04:41:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T04:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/242811\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T04:41:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T04:41:10","slug":"magic-drop-game-2-in-detroit-series-tied-1-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/242811\/","title":{"rendered":"Magic drop Game 2 in Detroit, series tied 1-1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DETROIT (AP) \u2014 Cade Cunningham had 27 points, 11 assists and six rebounds to lead the top-seeded\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/detroit-pistons\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Detroit Pistons<\/a>\u00a0to a 98-83 win over the eighth-seeded\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/orlando-magic\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Orlando Magic<\/a>\u00a0on Wednesday night, evening their first-round series and ending the longest home losing streak in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NBA<\/a>\u00a0playoff history.<\/p>\n<p>The Pistons had lost 11 straight home postseason games, a drought that started in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Game 3 is Saturday in Orlando.<\/p>\n<p>Detroit dominated the third quarter, turning a tie game into a rout by outscoring the Magic 38-16 in the period with six players scoring at least five points.<\/p>\n<p>After Cunningham scored a career playoff-high 39 points in Game 1 and didn\u2019t get much help, the All-Star guard had plenty of support, with five teammates scoring in double figures.<\/p>\n<p>Jalen Suggs scored 19 points and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/paolo-banchero\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paolo Banchero<\/a>\u00a0had 18 for the Magic. They combined to miss 21 of 35 shots as the team shot 33% and was held to a season low in points.<\/p>\n<p>Detroit\u2019s Tobias Harris scored 16 points, Jalen Duren and Ausar Thompson had 11 each, and Duncan Robertson and Isaiah Stewart each scored 10. Robinson made three much-needed 3-pointers for a team that struggles with outside shooting.<\/p>\n<p>Orlando\u2019s Franz Wagner and Desmond Bane had 12 points apiece and Wendell Carter Jr. was limited to three points on 1-of-6 shooting after he scored 17 in the opener.<\/p>\n<p>The Magic did not trail in the opener as their starters scored at least 16 points apiece and the Pistons had just two players in double figures.<\/p>\n<p>Detroit took its first lead of the series on the opening possession of Game 2 and jumped to a 14-7 lead with a desperately needed strong start after coming out sluggish in Game 1.<\/p>\n<p>The Pistons led by four points after the opening quarter and the game was tied at 46 entering the third period, when Detroit looked like the defensive-minded team that had the best record in the Eastern Conference.<\/p>\n<p>Both teams will have two days to make adjustments for Game 3.<\/p>\n<p>Detroit hasn&#8217;t advanced beyond the first playoff round in 18 years and Orlando hasn\u2019t reached the second round in 16 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DETROIT (AP) \u2014 Cade Cunningham had 27 points, 11 assists and six rebounds to lead the top-seeded\u00a0Detroit Pistons\u00a0to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242812,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[2205,28,139,141,1239,140,1240,110],"class_list":{"0":"post-242811","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando","8":"tag-associated-press","9":"tag-florida","10":"tag-orlando","11":"tag-orlando-headlines","12":"tag-orlando-magic","13":"tag-orlando-news","14":"tag-professional-basketball","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242811","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=242811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}