{"id":189697,"date":"2026-03-04T07:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T07:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/189697\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T07:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T07:27:08","slug":"san-antonio-plays-detroit-looks-for-6th-straight-home-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/189697\/","title":{"rendered":"San Antonio plays Detroit, looks for 6th straight home win"},"content":{"rendered":"

Detroit Pistons<\/a> (45-15, first in the Eastern Conference) vs. San Antonio Spurs<\/a> (44-17, second in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n

San Antonio; Thursday, 8 p.m. EST<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: San Antonio hosts Detroit aiming to extend its five-game home winning streak.<\/p>\n

The Spurs are 21-6 on their home court. San Antonio ranks third in the Western Conference in team defense, allowing only 111.4 points while holding opponents to 45.0% shooting.<\/p>\n

The Pistons have gone 21-8 away from home. Detroit is fourth in the league with 46.3 rebounds per game led by Jalen Duren<\/a> averaging 10.8.<\/p>\n

The 118.2 points per game the Spurs average are 8.7 more points than the Pistons allow (109.5). The Pistons average 10.8 made 3-pointers per game this season, 2.1 fewer made shots on average than the 12.9 per game the Spurs give up.<\/p>\n

The teams play for the second time this season. The Spurs won the last meeting 114-103 on Feb. 24. Devin Vassell<\/a> scored 28 points to help lead the Spurs to the victory.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: De’Aaron Fox<\/a> is shooting 48.1% and averaging 18.6 points for the Spurs. Victor Wembanyama<\/a> is averaging 20.7 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Duren is scoring 18.6 points per game and averaging 10.8 rebounds for the Pistons. Cade Cunningham<\/a> is averaging 2.4 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Spurs: 9-1, averaging 123.0 points, 46.5 rebounds, 32.2 assists, 8.5 steals and 7.2 blocks per game while shooting 50.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 108.7 points per game.<\/p>\n

Pistons: 8-2, averaging 115.7 points, 48.9 rebounds, 26.8 assists, 10.6 steals and 7.0 blocks per game while shooting 47.7% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 105.4 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Spurs: David Jones Garcia: out for season (ankle), Harrison Barnes<\/a>: day to day (ankle), Mason Plumlee<\/a>: day to day (reconditioning).<\/p>\n

Pistons: None listed.<\/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":"Detroit Pistons (45-15, first in the Eastern Conference) vs. San Antonio Spurs (44-17, second in the Western Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[20765,16024,6392,32000,64550,32001,20771,70621,16585,82,84,83,1066,509],"class_list":{"0":"post-189697","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-cade-cunningham","9":"tag-deaaron-fox","10":"tag-detroit-pistons","11":"tag-devin-vassell","12":"tag-event_preview","13":"tag-harrison-barnes","14":"tag-jalen-duren","15":"tag-mason-plumlee","16":"tag-national-basketball-association","17":"tag-san-antonio","18":"tag-san-antonio-headlines","19":"tag-san-antonio-news","20":"tag-san-antonio-spurs","21":"tag-victor-wembanyama"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}