{"id":453807,"date":"2026-02-07T04:27:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T04:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/453807\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T04:27:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T04:27:10","slug":"pistons-118-80-knicks-feb-6-2026-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/453807\/","title":{"rendered":"Pistons 118-80 Knicks (Feb 6, 2026) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

DETROIT — \u2014 Daniss Jenkins<\/a> scored 18 points in his last game as a two-way player and the Detroit Pistons<\/a> routed New York 118-80 on Friday night to end the Knicks’ winning streak at eight games.<\/p>\n

Jenkins was playing his 42nd game of the season, meaning he is no longer eligible for NBA games under his two-way contract. The Pistons must convert his deal to a full NBA contract to keep him. He’s averaging 8.2 points and 3.3 assists in 16.8 minutes as a backup guard.<\/p>\n

Jalen Duren<\/a> (knee) missed the game for Detroit while the Knicks played without Karl-Anthony Towns<\/a> (eye) and OG Anunoby<\/a> (toe).<\/p>\n

Tobias Harris<\/a> and Isaiah Stewart<\/a> each scored 15 points for the Pistons. They have won five straight regular-season games against New York, but lost to the Knicks in six games in the first round of last season’s playoffs.<\/p>\n

Mikal Bridges<\/a> scored 19 points for New York. Jalen Brunson<\/a> finished with 12 on 4-for-20 shooting that included 0 for 8 on 3-pointers. New York’s 80 points were a season low, beating the 90 they scored in a 31-point loss to the Pistons on Jan. 5.<\/p>\n

Detroit, playing a night after an ugly loss to Washington, dominated the first half on their way to a 63-42 lead. The Pistons, normally one of the worst 3-point-shooting teams in the league, went 10 of 18 (55.6%) while the Knicks only made 5 of 19 (26.3%). Brunson was 2 for 13 from the floor in the half.<\/p>\n

New York had time to make a run in the third quarter, but Brunson went 2 for 7 and the Knicks only scored 18 points. Jenkins and Harris each had seven points as Detroit moved the margin to 90-60.<\/p>\n

Up next <\/p>\n

Knicks: At Boston on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Pistons: At Charlotte on Monday night.<\/p>\n

——<\/p>\n

NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DETROIT — \u2014 Daniss Jenkins scored 18 points in his last game as a two-way player and the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-453807","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\/453807","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=453807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}