{"id":119471,"date":"2026-02-02T02:00:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T02:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/119471\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T02:00:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T02:00:24","slug":"detroit-pistons-rout-brooklyn-nets-in-most-lopsided-victory-in-franchise-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/119471\/","title":{"rendered":"Detroit Pistons rout Brooklyn Nets in most-lopsided victory in franchise history"},"content":{"rendered":"

DETROIT (AP) \u2014 Jalen Duren<\/a> had 21 points and 10 rebounds after being added to the All-Star Game on Sunday night as an Eastern Conference reserve, and the Detroit Pistons<\/a> routed the Brooklyn Nets<\/a> 130-77 in the most-lopsided victory in franchise history.<\/p>\n

The 53-point margin topped the mark of 52 set in a 118-66 victory at Boston on Jan 31, 2003. The Nets had a 54-point loss \u2014 120-66 \u2014 on Jan. 21 against New York.<\/p>\n

Cade Cunningham<\/a>, the Detroit star who was earlier selected an East All-=Star starter, added 18 points, 12 assists and four steals. The Eastern Conference-leading Pistons improved to 36-12 with their second straight victory. They beat Golden State on Friday night to finish 2-1 on a three-game trip.<\/p>\n

Cunningham had 13 points, 10 assists and four steals in the first half as the Pistons raced to a 67-44 lead. Ausar Thompson<\/a> hit a half-court shot at the halftime buzzer.<\/p>\n

Detroit outscored Brooklyn 33-18 in the third quarter to push it to 100-62. The Pistons\u2019 largest lead was 55 points.<\/p>\n

Cam Thomas<\/a> and Drake Powell<\/a> each had 12 points for Brooklyn. The Nets are 13-35.<\/p>\n

Egor Demin<\/a> was 0 for 4 from 3-point range, ending his NBA rookie record of at least one 3 in 34 straight games. He broke the record Friday night in Utah.<\/p>\n

Nets scoring leader Michael Porter Jr.<\/a> sat out because of personal reasons.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Nets: Host the Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

Pistons: Host Denver on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba<\/p>\n

The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DETROIT (AP) \u2014 Jalen Duren had 21 points and 10 rebounds after being added to the All-Star Game…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63,319],"class_list":["post-119471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}