The Washington Wizards defeated the Detroit Pistons on Thursday night, 126-117.<\/p>\n
Washington raced off to a 34-21 lead in the first quarter, holding Detroit to a sub 30 percent shooting percentage in that period. This helped the Wizards still finish the first half with a 56-52 lead after the Pistons made an inevitable run.<\/p>\n
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Still, the Wizards were able to expand on their lead in the third quarter, expanding it to as many as 19 points and headed into to the fourth quarter with a double digit lead. Ultimately, the Wizards persevered and held onto their lead to shock the current leaders in the NBA\u2019s Eastern Conference.<\/p>\n
In most basketball games, one or two players often stand out among the rest. But this time, no one was a true outlier. Will Riley led Washington with 20 points off the bench, and Sharife Cooper added 18 more. For the Pistons, Cade Cunningham led with 30 points.<\/p>\n
The Wizards\u2019 next game is on Saturday when they face off against the Brooklyn Nets. Tip off is at 3 p.m. ET. See you then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Washington Wizards defeated the Detroit Pistons on Thursday night, 126-117. Washington raced off to a 34-21 lead…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":585620,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3773],"tags":[7,247,909,296,188,3860,568,6333,897,6,66128,297,28695,682,468,982],"class_list":{"0":"post-585619","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-detroit-pistons","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-brooklyn-nets","10":"tag-cade-cunningham","11":"tag-detroit","12":"tag-detroit-pistons","13":"tag-detroitpistons","14":"tag-getty-images","15":"tag-kyshawn-george","16":"tag-mi","17":"tag-nba","18":"tag-nbae","19":"tag-pistons","20":"tag-sharife-cooper","21":"tag-washington","22":"tag-washington-wizards","23":"tag-will-riley"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116022195372575879","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}