{"id":155079,"date":"2026-03-06T07:30:32","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T07:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/155079\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T07:30:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T07:30:32","slug":"brooklyn-plays-detroit-on-8-game-road-skid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/155079\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn plays Detroit on 8-game road skid"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brooklyn Nets<\/a> (15-47, 14th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Detroit Pistons<\/a> (45-16, first in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n

Detroit; Saturday, 6 p.m. EST<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Brooklyn will attempt to end its eight-game road skid when the Nets play Detroit.<\/p>\n

The Pistons are 30-8 against Eastern Conference opponents. Detroit has a 9-4 record in one-possession games.<\/p>\n

The Nets are 11-28 against Eastern Conference opponents. Brooklyn has a 5-31 record against teams above .500.<\/p>\n

The Pistons average 10.8 made 3-pointers per game this season, 1.7 fewer makes per game than the Nets give up (12.5). The Nets average 13.4 made 3-pointers per game this season, 0.6 more makes per game than the Pistons allow.<\/p>\n

The teams square off for the third time this season. The Pistons won 130-77 in the last meeting on Feb. 1. Jalen Duren<\/a> led the Pistons with 21 points, and Drake Powell<\/a> led the Nets with 12 points.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Cade Cunningham<\/a> is averaging 25.2 points, 5.8 rebounds, 9.8 assists and 1.5 steals for the Pistons. Duren is averaging 17.5 points and 9.4 rebounds over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Michael Porter Jr.<\/a> is scoring 24.2 points per game with 7.0 rebounds and 3.1 assists for the Nets. Nolan Traore<\/a> is averaging 12.5 points and 1.8 rebounds while shooting 41.2% over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Pistons: 7-3, averaging 114.5 points, 48.9 rebounds, 25.7 assists, 10.0 steals and 6.8 blocks per game while shooting 46.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 109.5 points per game.<\/p>\n

Nets: 0-10, averaging 102.9 points, 37.9 rebounds, 26.3 assists, 8.4 steals and 3.6 blocks per game while shooting 43.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 120.0 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Pistons: Ausar Thompson<\/a>: day to day (ankle), Ronald Holland II<\/a>: day to day (eye).<\/p>\n

Nets: Egor Demin<\/a>: day to day (injury management).<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brooklyn Nets (15-47, 14th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Detroit Pistons (45-16, first in the Eastern Conference) Detroit;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[64190,98,100,355,99,19719,1267,7935,5235,54398,19718,4600,4568,9,24,7934,63,58289],"class_list":{"0":"post-155079","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-ausar-thompson","9":"tag-brooklyn","10":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","11":"tag-brooklyn-nets","12":"tag-brooklyn-news","13":"tag-cade-cunningham","14":"tag-detroit-pistons","15":"tag-drake-powell","16":"tag-egor-demin","17":"tag-event_preview","18":"tag-jalen-duren","19":"tag-michael-porter-jr","20":"tag-national-basketball-association","21":"tag-new-york","22":"tag-new-york-city","23":"tag-nolan-traore","24":"tag-nyc","25":"tag-ronald-holland-ii"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155079","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=155079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}