{"id":557630,"date":"2026-04-01T05:43:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T05:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/557630\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T05:43:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T05:43:08","slug":"cade-cunningham-joins-pistons-on-bench-for-1st-time-since-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/557630\/","title":{"rendered":"Cade Cunningham joins Pistons on bench for 1st time since injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cade Cunningham made his first public appearance since suffering a collapsed lung, sitting on the bench in street clothes during the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freep.com\/sports\/pistons\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Detroit Pistons&#039;;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Detroit Pistons&#039;&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Detroit Pistons&#8217;<\/a> home game on Tuesday, March 31, for a 127-116 win over the Toronto Raptors.<\/p>\n<p>The All-Star guard hadn&#8217;t been with the team during a game since he went down with a left lung pneumothorax on the road against the Washington Wizards on March 17.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>He was spotted briefly at the team&#8217;s Midtown practice facility March 25 during their morning shootaround, working with trainers in the weight room.<\/p>\n<p>The team announced March 19 that Cunningham will be reevaluted in two weeks, which falls on Thursday, presumably before they host the Minnesota Timberwolves. With six regular-season games remaining for the Pistons (55-21), he is five games short of achieving end-of-season award eligibility; this season he is averaging 24.5 points, 9.9 assists and 5.6 rebounds per game.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s been around, he&#8217;s been vocal and his presence has always been there since he went down,&#8221; temmate Jalen Duren said Tuesday. &#8220;I know the fans probably haven&#8217;t seen him at a game, but he hasn&#8217;t went anywhere. He&#8217;s still been with us, he&#8217;s still been communicating every game, every practice. We&#8217;ve still been able to see him at the facility. It was just another day for us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Watch our podcast, &#8220;The Pistons Pulse,&#8221; discuss the Cade Cunningham injury fallout, the playoff chase and more:<\/p>\n<p>Contact\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.freep.com\/staff\/2954035001\/omari-sankofa-ii\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Omari Sankofa II;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Omari Sankofa II&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Omari Sankofa II<\/a>\u00a0at osankofa@freepress.com. Follow him\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/omarisankofa.bsky.social\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:on Bluesky;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;on Bluesky&quot;}\" class=\"link \">on Bluesky<\/a>\u00a0and\/or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/omarisankofa\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:X @omarisankofa;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;X @omarisankofa&quot;}\" class=\"link \">X @omarisankofa<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Detroit Free Press: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freep.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/pistons\/2026\/04\/01\/cade-cunningham-joins-detroit-pistons-on-bench-against-toronto-raptors\/89414910007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Cade Cunningham joins Detroit Pistons on bench against Toronto Raptors;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Cade Cunningham joins Detroit Pistons on bench against Toronto Raptors&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Cade Cunningham joins Detroit Pistons on bench against Toronto Raptors<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cade Cunningham made his first public appearance since suffering a collapsed lung, sitting on the bench in street&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":557631,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[88728,247480,4576,148151,11951,355,247479,99,2970,11948],"class_list":{"0":"post-557630","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-cade-cunningham","9":"tag-collapsed-lung","10":"tag-detroit-pistons","11":"tag-jalen-duren","12":"tag-minnesota-timberwolves","13":"tag-nba","14":"tag-sitting-on-the-bench","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-toronto-raptors","17":"tag-washington-wizards"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557630","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=557630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}