{"id":548116,"date":"2026-03-27T08:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T08:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/548116\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T08:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T08:35:08","slug":"pistons-129-108-pelicans-mar-26-2026-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/548116\/","title":{"rendered":"Pistons 129-108 Pelicans (Mar 26, 2026) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

DETROIT — \u2014 Jalen Duren<\/a> had 30 points and 10 rebounds to lead the Detroit Pistons<\/a> past the New Orleans Pelicans<\/a> 129-108 on Thursday night.<\/p>\n

Kevin Huerter<\/a> had 22 points and Daniss Jenkins<\/a> added 19 for Detroit, which was coming off a 130-129 overtime loss to the Atlanta Hawks<\/a> on Wednesday. The Pistons, normally one of the worst 3-point shooting teams in the league, shot 53.6% (15 of 28) from beyond the arc, including 9 of 14 from Huerter and Jenkins.<\/p>\n

Zion Williamson<\/a> scored 21 points for New Orleans, which lost its third straight after winning five of six. Former Piston Saddiq Bey<\/a> added 17, but no one else scored more than 13. The Pelicans made things harder on themselves by only shooting 45.8% (11-24) from the free-throw line.<\/p>\n

Detroit led by as many as 15 points in the third quarter, but the Pelicans narrowed the margin to 92-88 on the first possession of the fourth.<\/p>\n

The Pistons, though, hit their next five shots \u2014 including three 3-pointers \u2014 to outscore New Orleans 15-2 in three minutes. Pelicans coach James Borrego called a timeout that stopped the run, but the game had already gotten out of hand.<\/p>\n

New Orleans led after the first quarter, but Detroit tightened on defense in the second. The Pelicans shot 40% (8 of 20) from the floor, missed all four 3-point attempts and only went 7 of 15 (46.7%) from the free-throw line. Duren had 13 points and seven rebounds in the quarter to help the Pistons build a 65-56 halftime lead.<\/p>\n

Up next <\/p>\n

Pelicans: Visit the Toronto Raptors<\/a> on Friday.<\/p>\n

Pistons: Visit the Minnesota Timberwolves<\/a> on Saturday.<\/p>\n

\u2014<\/p>\n

AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/NBA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DETROIT — \u2014 Jalen Duren had 30 points and 10 rebounds to lead the Detroit Pistons past the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":548117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-548116","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-nba","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548116","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=548116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}