{"id":255503,"date":"2026-05-02T15:20:33","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T15:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/255503\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T15:20:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T15:20:33","slug":"cade-cunningham-pistons-force-game-7-as-nba-fans-rip-paolo-banchero-magic-for-2nd-half-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/255503\/","title":{"rendered":"Cade Cunningham, Pistons Force Game 7 as NBA Fans Rip Paolo Banchero, Magic for 2nd-Half Collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Cade Cunningham and the Detroit Pistons pulled off an incredible comeback on Friday night to force Game 7 against the Orlando Magic. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Cunningham and Co. held the Magic to 19 second-half points and erased a 24-point deficit in the final two quarters. The Pistons won 93-79 to set up Game 7 of the first-round series on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Cunningham was the driving force of the Pistons&#8217; second-half surge. He finished with 32 points and 10 rebounds. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Detroit&#8217;s comeback was incredible, but the Magic&#8217;s collapse was even more stunning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">After Orlando scored 60 points and led by 22 points at halftime, it scored just 18 points in the second half. A streak of 23 straight missed field goals was part of the remarkable struggle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Detroit now carries all the momentum in the series back home for Game 7 on Sunday. The winner moves on to face the winner of the Cleveland-Toronto series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cade Cunningham and the Detroit Pistons pulled off an incredible comeback on Friday night to force Game 7&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,141,140],"class_list":["post-255503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255503","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=255503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}