{"id":257388,"date":"2026-05-04T06:44:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T06:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/257388\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T06:44:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T06:44:26","slug":"pistons-dominate-orlando-advance-to-second-round-of-playoffs-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/257388\/","title":{"rendered":"Pistons dominate Orlando, advance to second round of playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"

DETROIT (FOX 2) – From the second quarter on, the Detroit Pistons<\/a> took charge and dominated the Orlando Magic<\/a> Sunday afternoon, to punch their ticket into the second round of the playoffs.<\/p>\n

The Pistons won 116-94.<\/p>\n

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Following the Philadelphia 76ers<\/a> the previous night, it was the second time in two days that a team had erased a 3-1 deficit to win, and only the 15th time in NBA history. It was the second time (the first being in 2003) that the Pistons came from down 3-1 to Orlando.<\/p>\n

Cade Cunningham<\/a> (32) and Tobias Harris<\/a> (30) both scored over 30 points to pace the Pistons in the game 7 victory.<\/p>\n

Cunningham averaged 32.4 points for Detroit, which last won a postseason series by beating Orlando in the second round in 2008. The Pistons advance to play the winner of Sunday evening\u2019s Game 7 between the Cleveland Cavaliers<\/a> and the Toronto Raptors<\/a>. Game 1 will be Tuesday at Little Caesars Arena.<\/p>\n

The Pistons became the 15th team in NBA history to overcome a 3-1 deficit and the second in the last two nights, after the Philadelphia 76ers came back to eliminate Boston<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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They trailed by 24 points in Game 6 in Orlando before rallying to take the series at home. Orlando only scored 113 points in the final six quarters of the series \u2014 an average of 18.8 per period.<\/p>\n

Cunningham and Harris became the first Pistons teammates to score 30 points in a playoff game since Bob Lanier (33) and Howard Porter (30) against the Golden State Warriors<\/a> on April 17, 1977.<\/p>\n

Paolo Banchero<\/a> scored 38 for the Magic.<\/p>\n

Each team needed a second scoring option in Game 7. Cunningham had carried the Pistons while Banchero was Orlando\u2019s only weapon after Franz Wagner<\/a> was injured in Game 4.<\/p>\n

Harris filled that role for Detroit, but Orlando only had one other player reach double figures in the first three quarters, as Desmond Bane<\/a> had 10.<\/p>\n

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The Pistons also got a big game from All-Star center Jalen Duren<\/a>. He was outplayed by Wendell Carter Jr.<\/a> in the first six games, but put up his first double-double of the series with 15 points and 15 rebounds.<\/p>\n

Harris scored 17 points in the second quarter as the Pistons finished the half on a 9-2 run to take a 60-49 lead.<\/p>\n

The Pistons\u2019 surge continued into the second half, as they opened the third quarter with a 11-2 run to go up 71-51. Nine of the points came from Cunningham and Harris.<\/p>\n

The Magic finished the third quarter with 15 points \u2014 the third time in their last five periods they couldn\u2019t reach 20 points.<\/p>\n

Daniss Jenkins<\/a> hit a buzzer-beating 3-pointer to give Detroit a 83-64 lead going into the fourth, and the Magic never threatened down the stretch.<\/p>\n

The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DETROIT (FOX 2) – From the second quarter on, the Detroit Pistons took charge and dominated the Orlando…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[6647,38323,15356,99826,5798,5834,5819,5823,53582,139,141,1239,140,5799,5847,38617,5835,5813],"class_list":["post-257388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-boston","tag-cade-cunningham","tag-cleveland-cavaliers","tag-daniss-jenkins","tag-desmond-bane","tag-detroit-pistons","tag-franz-wagner","tag-golden-state-warriors","tag-jalen-duren","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-magic","tag-orlando-news","tag-paolo-banchero","tag-philadelphia-76ers","tag-tobias-harris","tag-toronto-raptors","tag-wendell-carter-jr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257388","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=257388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}