Cade Cunningham scored 26 points, and John Collins had 16 points and 11 rebounds to help the Detroit Pistons stay unbeaten with a 106-93 win over LeBron James and the Philadelphia 76ers on Sunday night.<\/p>\n
The Pistons improved to 3-0 in their first game without All-Star center Jalen Duren, who will miss at least two weeks with a strained right hamstring. Duren was injured in the first half of Detroit’s win over Miami on Friday.<\/p>\n
The Pistons led wire-to-wire against a Sixers team playing on the second night of a back-to-back and missing starters Joel Embiid and VJ Edgecombe. Embiid sat out for rest a night after he had a triple-double against Milwaukee. VJ Edgecombe missed the game with an abdominal contusion.<\/p>\n
Tyrese Maxey led the Sixers with 29 points and James had 18. The Sixers lost for the first time after opening with three straight wins.<\/p>\n
One of those wins included a 29-point comeback against Cleveland that perhaps gave the Sixers and their fans belief they could rally again when the Pistons led by 21 in the first half. <\/p>\n
Unlike their rally against Cleveland, the Sixers hit a string of baskets to make it a game but never took the lead.<\/p>\n
The 41-year-old James, back in the lineup after he sat out against the Bucks to rest his back, powered his way to three straight layups as part of a 9-0 run that helped the Sixers cut it to 56-44 at halftime. After they pull within five, Cunningham hit two straight 3-pointers that pushed the lead back to nine points and the Pistons were ahead by 10 at the end of the quarter.<\/p>\n
Duncan Robinson hit a 3 in the fourth \u2014 he made five of Detroit’s 14 3s \u2014 that sucked the air out of another Sixers run that had closed the gap to four points.<\/p>\n
The Pistons opened the game on a 15-1 run and extended it to 56-35 in the second quarter. <\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
Detroit: Plays Tuesday at New York.<\/p>\n
Philadelphia: Play Wednesday at Indiana. <\/p>\n