{"id":546955,"date":"2026-03-26T19:13:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T19:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/546955\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T19:13:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T19:13:08","slug":"hawks-130-129-pistons-mar-25-2026-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/546955\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawks 130-129 Pistons (Mar 25, 2026) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

DETROIT — \u2014 CJ McCollum<\/a> scored 27 points, making the tiebreaking three-point play in overtime, and the Atlanta Hawks<\/a> beat the Detroit Pistons<\/a> 130-129 on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

Jalen Johnson<\/a> also had 27 points and came close to another triple-double, finishing with 12 assists and eight rebounds. <\/p>\n

The surging Hawks improved to 15-2 since the All-Star break, best in the Eastern Conference, and snapped Detroit’s four-game winning streak.<\/p>\n

Jalen Duren<\/a> had 26 points and 14 rebounds for the Pistons, who lost for the first time since All-Star Cade Cunningham<\/a> sustained a collapsed left lung<\/a>. Tobias Harris<\/a> scored 22 points and Daniss Jenkins<\/a> had 19 points and 10 assists for the East leaders.<\/p>\n

Atlanta had a 21-point lead in the first half that Detroit wiped away quickly in the third quarter. McCollum scored the Hawks’ final 11 points of regulation, including a three-point play that gave them a 121-116 lead with 44 seconds remaining. But Detroit rallied again and he missed a jumper that would have won it on the final possession. <\/p>\n

He got another chance in OT and his three-point play made it 126-123. The Pistons had a chance to win it, but Harris missed a jumper and Duren was short on a follow shot.<\/p>\n

The Hawks scored 11 straight points to extend a six-point lead to 56-39 midway through the second quarter, then had an 11-2 spurt just before the half to make it 73-52. The Pistons then scored the first 16 points of the third quarter, trimming Atlanta’s 73-55 halftime advantage to 73-71. <\/p>\n

Atlanta avoided a four-game sweep in the season series. The Pistons had a season-high 142 points in December in the last meeting, but the Hawks are the hottest team in the East now while surging into sixth place entering play Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Up next <\/p>\n

Hawks: Visit Boston on Friday.<\/p>\n

Pistons: Host New Orleans on Thursday.<\/p>\n

——<\/p>\n

AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/NBA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DETROIT — \u2014 CJ McCollum scored 27 points, making the tiebreaking three-point play in overtime, and the Atlanta…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":546956,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-546955","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\/546955","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=546955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}