{"id":447831,"date":"2026-02-04T04:06:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T04:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/447831\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T04:06:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T04:06:07","slug":"pistons-124-121-nuggets-feb-3-2026-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/447831\/","title":{"rendered":"Pistons 124-121 Nuggets (Feb 3, 2026) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

DETROIT — \u2014 All-Star Cade Cunningham<\/a> had 29 points and 10 assists and the Detroit Pistons<\/a> beat the Denver Nuggets<\/a> 124-121 on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

All-Star Jalen Duren<\/a> added 19 points and 13 rebounds, and Duncan Robinson<\/a> scored 20 for the Pistons, who have won five of six, including a 109-107 win in Denver on Jan. 27. They came into the game following a record-setting win on Sunday<\/a>, beating the Brooklyn Nets<\/a> 130-77 and setting a franchise mark with a 53-point margin of victory.<\/p>\n

Jamal Murray<\/a> led the Nuggets with 32 points and eight assists while Nikola Jokic<\/a> had 24 points and 15 rebounds.<\/p>\n

The Nuggets never led, but Jokic got them within two possessions, 112-107, with 2:33 to play. After a Detroit miss, Murray’s 3-pointer made it a two-point game.<\/p>\n

Tobias Harris<\/a> answered with a 3-pointer on Detroit’s next possession, and the teams traded baskets to make it 117-112 with 1:15 left.<\/p>\n

Detroit finally got a stop with 33 seconds left and clinched the game from the free-throw line.<\/p>\n

Detroit outscored the Nuggets 37-23 in the second quarter to build a 69-50 halftime lead. Cunningham had 17 points and seven assists in the half, while Jokic was held to seven points on 3-for-10 shooting.<\/p>\n

The Pistons pulled out to a 20-point lead early in the third, but Denver cut the margin to 93-80 by period’s end.<\/p>\n

Earlier on Tuesday, Detroit traded guard <\/a>Jaden Ivey<\/a> in exchange for Kevin Huerter<\/a> and Dario Saric<\/a> in a three-way trade with the Minnesota Timberwolves<\/a> and Chicago Bulls<\/a>. Neither Huerter and Saric were available for the game.<\/p>\n

Up next <\/p>\n

Nuggets: Visit the New York Knicks<\/a> on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

Pistons: Host the Washington Wizards<\/a> on Thursday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DETROIT — \u2014 All-Star Cade Cunningham had 29 points and 10 assists and the Detroit Pistons beat the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":447832,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-447831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}