{"id":613399,"date":"2026-02-20T09:28:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T09:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/613399\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T09:28:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T09:28:18","slug":"ny-fan-ben-stiller-admits-cade-cunningham-kicked-our-butts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/613399\/","title":{"rendered":"NY fan Ben Stiller admits Cade Cunningham &#8216;kicked our butts&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Detroit Pistons guard <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nba\/players\/ad5809ca\/cade-cunningham\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cade Cunningham<\/a> had himself a night at Madison Square Garden on Thursday, torching the <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nba\/new-york-knicks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Knicks<\/a> for a game-high 42 points.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nba\/detroit-pistons\/pistons-news-cade-cunningham-powerful-message-aura\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">With Cunningham scoring at will<\/a>, the Pistons walloped the Knicks, 126-111, to notch their fourth straight win.<\/p>\n<p>The two-time All-Star shot 17-of-34 from the field, including 5-of-11 from long distance. He added eight rebounds, 13 assists, and two blocks as he continues to show that he should also be considered a face of the NBA.<\/p>\n<p>Actor Ben Stiller, a longtime fan of the Knicks, acknowledged Cunningham&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BenStiller\/status\/2024682683226324996\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">stellar performance<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCade kicked our butts. We gotta get better,\u201d wrote Stiller on X.<\/p>\n<p>The 60-year-old star of \u201cZoolander\u201d and \u201cThere&#8217;s Something About Mary\u201d is regularly spotted at courtside at Madison Square Garden, cheering for his beloved team.<\/p>\n<p>He has sat through the Knicks&#8217; woeful campaigns, and while the squad has found success in recent years, Stiller knows that there is always room for improvement.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe he can urge the Knicks to watch \u201cDodgeball: A True Underdog Story.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nba\/new-york-knicks\/knicks-news-mike-brown-biggest-regret-cade-cunningham-42-points\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York coach Mike Brown admitted that they failed<\/a> to employ their defensive strategy against the 24-year-old Cunningham, who is averaging 25.3 points, 5.6 rebounds, and 9.6 assists.<\/p>\n<p>Like other stars, it seems like the do-it-all guard also enjoys playing at Madison Square Garden, a venue that knows how to appreciate good basketball, even by an opponent.<\/p>\n<p>The Knicks have dropped their three meetings with the Pistons this season.<\/p>\n<p>Cunningham has become an unstoppable force in his fifth year in Detroit, carrying over the momentum from his breakout campaign last season, where he was named to the All-NBA Third Team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Detroit Pistons guard Cade Cunningham had himself a night at Madison Square Garden on Thursday, torching the New&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":603492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3768],"tags":[7,909,7417,304,6,1136,191,3810,3806],"class_list":["post-613399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-knicks","tag-basketball","tag-cade-cunningham","tag-celebrity","tag-knicks","tag-nba","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkknicks"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613399","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=613399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}