{"id":622240,"date":"2026-05-04T04:01:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T04:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/622240\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T04:01:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T04:01:38","slug":"nba-announces-schedule-for-cavs-vs-pistons-second-round-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/622240\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA announces schedule for Cavs vs. Pistons second-round series"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Cleveland Cavaliers<\/a> might\u2019ve saved this era of basketball with a Game 7 victory<\/a> over the Toronto Raptors<\/a>. However, they won\u2019t have long to celebrate that victory. They\u2019ll be back in action right away as they start the second-round series against the Detroit Pistons<\/a> on Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s how the schedule looks:<\/p>\n

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Game 1 in Detroit: Tue., May 5 at 7 PM on NBCSN and Peacock<\/p>\n

Game 2 in Detroit: Thur., May 7 at 7 PM on Prime Video<\/p>\n

Game 3 in Cleveland: Sat., May 9 at 3 PM on NBC and Peacock<\/p>\n

Game 4 in Cleveland: Mon., May 11 at 8 PM on NBC and Peacock<\/p>\n

Game 5 in Detroit: Wed., May 13, time and TV TBD<\/p>\n

Game 6 in Cleveland: Fri., May 15, time and TV TBD<\/p>\n

Game 7 in Detroit: Sun., May 17, time and TV TBD<\/p>\n

Games five through seven will only be played if necessary.<\/p>\n

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There\u2019s only one day between each game in this series. That could be difficult for both teams that are coming off grueling seven-game series in the first round, with each ending on Sunday.<\/p>\n

This is expected to be a close series. They split their four games in the regular season.<\/p>\n

The Cavs prevailed in their first meeting in October, 116-95, in a game that was much more lopsided than the final score accurately indicates. Donovan Mitchell<\/a> scored an effortless 35 points in the victory.<\/p>\n

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Detroit came back and won the next two.<\/p>\n

On Jan. 4, the Cavs had a chance to win late, but Ausar Thompson<\/a> won the game with an offensive rebound and putback to secure a 114-110 victory. In February, the Pistons took care of a skeleton-crew Cavs team in a crazy overtime win.<\/p>\n

Finally, the Cavs won their last meeting of the season in March 113-109 without Mitchell. James Harden had 18 points and seven assists in the victory.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll see how the postseason shakes out when the series starts in a few days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cleveland Cavaliers might\u2019ve saved this era of basketball with a Game 7 victory over the Toronto Raptors.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":622241,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[72976,88728,852,8174,4576,13054,6418,355,6454,99,52467,2970],"class_list":["post-622240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ausar-thompson","tag-cade-cunningham","tag-cleveland","tag-cleveland-cavaliers","tag-detroit-pistons","tag-donovan-mitchell","tag-james-harden","tag-nba","tag-ohio","tag-sports","tag-the-cavaliers","tag-toronto-raptors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622240","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=622240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}