{"id":491410,"date":"2026-02-26T10:18:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T10:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/491410\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T10:18:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T10:18:13","slug":"thunder-fall-to-east-leading-pistons-despite-jaylin-williams-career-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/491410\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunder fall to East-leading Pistons despite Jaylin Williams\u2019 career night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4433621\/jalen-duren\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Jalen Duren<\/a> had 29 points and 15 rebounds, <a class=\"Link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4432166\/cade-cunningham\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Cade Cunningham<\/a> added 29 points and 13 assists and the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/det\/detroit-pistons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Detroit Pistons<\/a> beat the short-handed <a class=\"Link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/okc\/oklahoma-city-thunder\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a> 124-116 on Wednesday night in a matchup of conference leaders.<\/p>\n<p>The Thunder started the game without five of their six leading scorers \u2014 Shai Alexander-Gilgeous (abdomen), <a class=\"Link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4222252\/isaiah-hartenstein\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Isaiah Hartenstein<\/a> (calf), <a class=\"Link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4433255\/chet-holmgren\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Chet Holmgren<\/a> (back), <a class=\"Link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4900671\/ajay-mitchell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Ajay Mitchell<\/a> (abdomen) and <a class=\"Link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4593803\/jalen-williams\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Jalen Williams<\/a> (hamstring). The only one of the top six to start was <a class=\"Link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4395702\/isaiah-joe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Isaiah Joe<\/a>, and he left at halftime because of a bruised hip.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3157465\/duncan-robinson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Duncan Robinson<\/a> added 16 points for East-leading Detroit. The Pistons have won six of seven to improve to 43-14.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4432823\/jaylin-williams\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Jaylin Williams<\/a> had a career-best 30 points for the defending champion Thunder, and <a class=\"Link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4683692\/cason-wallace\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Cason Wallace<\/a> added 23. The Thunder dropped to 45-15. They had won five of six.<\/p>\n<p>After Oklahoma City cut it to 108-105 with 5:06 to play, <a class=\"Link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/2596112\/javonte-green\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Javonte Green<\/a> answered with a 3-pointer on a possession where Detroit had four offensive rebounds.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Thunder: Host Denver on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Pistons: Host Cleveland on Friday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jalen Duren had 29 points and 15 rebounds, Cade Cunningham added 29 points and 13 assists and the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":491411,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-491410","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\/491410","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=491410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}