{"id":533975,"date":"2026-03-20T03:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T03:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/533975\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T03:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T03:02:08","slug":"pistons-push-past-wizards-117-95-in-their-first-game-without-cade-cunningham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/533975\/","title":{"rendered":"Pistons push past Wizards 117-95 in their first game without Cade Cunningham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jalen Duren had 24 points and 11 rebounds and Detroit never trailed in a 117-95 victory over the Washington Wizards on Thursday night, the Pistons&#8217; first game since All-Star guard Cade Cunningham was ruled out for at least two weeks with a collapsed left lung.<\/p>\n<p>Duren got his 37th double-double in just 25 minutes, two nights after scoring a career-high 36 points for Eastern Conference-leading Detroit in their 130-117 win over Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Reed added 17 points, while Duncan Robinson, Caris LeVert and Kevin Huerter each had 14 for the Pistons.<\/p>\n<p>Detroit outrebounded Washington 55-33 and led 66-26 in points in the paint.<\/p>\n<p>Tristan Vukcevic scored 21 for the Wizards, who lost their season worst-tying 14th consecutive game. With the NBA&#8217;s second-worst record at 16-53, Washington is two games from matching a franchise-record slide of 16 losses, most recently in March 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The Pistons outscored the Wizards 35-14 in the first quarter and extended that advantage to 25 points early in the second.<\/p>\n<p>Washington closed within six multiple times in the second and third quarters, after getting back in the game with a 20-2 run that included a seven-point possession.<\/p>\n<p>Jaden Hardy sank a 3-pointer, Vukcevic hit a free throw following Paul Reed&#8217;s flagrant foul during Hardy&#8217;s shot, and then Vukcevic sank a 3-pointer from the top of the arc after Washington&#8217;s inbound.<\/p>\n<p>Pistons: Host Golden State on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Wizards: Host Oklahoma City on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jalen Duren had 24 points and 11 rebounds and Detroit never trailed in a 117-95 victory over the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":533976,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[402,4576,58423,355,99,11948],"class_list":["post-533975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-basketball","tag-detroit-pistons","tag-kevin-huerter","tag-nba","tag-sports","tag-washington-wizards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533975","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=533975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}