{"id":623813,"date":"2026-05-04T23:37:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T23:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/623813\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T23:37:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T23:37:13","slug":"cavs-at-pistons-game-1-how-to-watch-odds-and-injury-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/623813\/","title":{"rendered":"Cavs at Pistons Game 1: How to watch, odds, and injury report"},"content":{"rendered":"

The team that\u2019s won Game 1 has won every series that the Donovan Mitchell-led Cleveland Cavaliers<\/a> teams have played. How much stock you put into that is up to you. What we can say is that Game 1 against the Detroit Pistons<\/a> is important.<\/p>\n

Neither the Cavs nor the Pistons have had much time to prepare for the second round. Both teams went seven games in a series that many thought would be over far before it was. As a result, both have just one day to transition from the highs of winning a Game 7 to the onset of a new series.<\/p>\n

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The lack of preparation usually means that the team, or more specifically the team with the star players, that executes better will come away with the win on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

For what it\u2019s worth, the Cavs and Pistons split their four regular-season contests this year.<\/p>\n

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Who:\u00a0Cleveland Cavaliers<\/a> (52-30) at Detroit Pistons<\/a> (60-22)<\/p>\n

Where: Little Caesars Arena \u2013 Detroit, MI<\/p>\n

When: Tue., May 5 at 7 PM<\/p>\n

TV: Peacock, NBC Sports Network<\/p>\n

Point spread: Pistons -3.5<\/p>\n

Cavs injury report: None<\/p>\n

Pistons injury report: Kevin Huerter<\/a> \u2013 QUESTIONABLE (abductor strain)<\/p>\n

Cavs expected starting lineup: James Harden<\/a>, Donovan Mitchell<\/a>, Dean Wade<\/a>, Evan Mobley<\/a>, Jarrett Allen<\/p>\n

Pistons expected starting lineup: Cade Cunningham<\/a>, Duncan Robinson<\/a>, Ausar Thompson<\/a>, Tobias Harris<\/a>, Jalen Duren<\/a><\/p>\n

Previous matchup: The Cavs defeated the Pistons 113-109 in March thanks to a big game from Jaylon Tyson<\/a><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a look at both teams\u2019 regular-season impact stats via Cleaning the Glass<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Offensive Rating<\/p>\n

Defensive Rating<\/p>\n

Net Rating<\/p>\n

Cavs<\/p>\n

118.9 (8th)<\/p>\n

115 (15th)<\/p>\n

+3.9 (9th)<\/p>\n

Raptors<\/p>\n

118.3 (10th)<\/p>\n

109.5 (2nd)<\/p>\n

+8.8 (3rd)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The team that\u2019s won Game 1 has won every series that the Donovan Mitchell-led Cleveland Cavaliers teams have…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":623814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[72976,88728,8174,27496,4576,13054,25167,51299,148151,6418,27495,133524,58423,355,99,148694],"class_list":["post-623813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ausar-thompson","tag-cade-cunningham","tag-cleveland-cavaliers","tag-dean-wade","tag-detroit-pistons","tag-donovan-mitchell","tag-duncan-robinson","tag-evan-mobley","tag-jalen-duren","tag-james-harden","tag-jarrett-allen","tag-jaylon-tyson","tag-kevin-huerter","tag-nba","tag-sports","tag-tobias-harris"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623813","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=623813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/623814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}