{"id":249371,"date":"2026-04-28T09:40:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T09:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/249371\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T09:40:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T09:40:17","slug":"detroit-pistons-at-risk-of-playoff-elimination-after-94-88-loss-to-orlando-magic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/249371\/","title":{"rendered":"Detroit Pistons at risk of playoff elimination after 94-88 loss to Orlando Magic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Desmond Bane scored 22 points, Franz Wagner had 19 in three quarters and the Orlando Magic beat the Detroit Pistons 94-88 Monday night to take a 3-1 series lead, putting the East&#8217;s No. 1 seed on the brink of elimination.<\/p>\n<p>Game 5 is Wednesday night in Detroit.<\/p>\n<p>Orlando, which had to win an elimination game at home in the play-in tournament, is on the verge of becoming just the seventh No. 8 seed to defeat a No. 1 in a series in league history. It&#8217;s happened only four times since the playoffs were expanded to a best-of-seven series for all rounds in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>Paolo Banchero scored 18 points for the Magic on 4-of-18 shooting. Orlando shot just 32.6%, with Jalen Suggs going 1 for 13, including 1 for 11 from 3-point range.<\/p>\n<p>The Magic overcame their shooting woes by protecting the ball. They had only 12 turnovers to 20 for Detroit.<\/p>\n<p>Cade Cunningham led the Pistons with 25 points and Tobias Harris had 20.<\/p>\n<p>Wagner left with 1:34 left in the third quarter due to right calf soreness. <\/p>\n<p>Jamal Cain replaced Wagner and electrified the crowd with <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NBA\/status\/2048954039585444069\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">a driving dunk<\/a> over Caris LeVert early in the fourth quarter. He also had a one-handed tip-in dunk that made it 87-85 with 4:55 to go.<\/p>\n<p>Suggs missed his first eight shots before nailing a 3-pointer from the corner for an 85-80 lead. But Ausar Thompson&#8217;s layup tied it before Cain&#8217;s putback.<\/p>\n<p>With former Grizzlies teammates Ja Morant and Jaren Jackson Jr. cheering him on courtside, Bane <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NBAonNBC\/status\/2048958104960655374\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">banked in a 3-pointer<\/a> to extend Orlando&#8217;s lead to 92-86 with 1:16 remaining.<\/p>\n<p>The 45-win Magic haven&#8217;t won a playoff series since 2010, when they lost in the Eastern Conference finals. The 37-year-old franchise has never won an NBA title.<\/p>\n<p>The Pistons, who won 60 games in the regular season, have an even longer series drought. They haven&#8217;t advanced to the second round since losing in the East finals in 2008 <\/p>\n<p>The teams traded double-digit leads in the first half and the Magic led 54-52 going into the third quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Riding a wave of energy from a frenzied, blue-clad crowd, the Magic scored the first eight points and led 19-7 before missing 13 straight shots during a 20-5 run by Detroit.<\/p>\n<p>The Pistons had a 40-30 lead midway through the second.<\/p>\n<p>The Magic improved to 8-1 at home in the playoffs over the past three seasons.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/nba<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Desmond Bane scored 22 points, Franz Wagner had 19 in three quarters and the Orlando Magic beat the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[3108,5834,2295,92028,139,141,1239,140,110],"class_list":["post-249371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-basketball","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\/249371","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=249371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}