{"id":617450,"date":"2026-02-22T09:08:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T09:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/617450\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T09:08:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T09:08:17","slug":"detroit-plays-san-antonio-aims-for-6th-straight-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/617450\/","title":{"rendered":"Detroit plays San Antonio, aims for 6th straight win"},"content":{"rendered":"

San Antonio Spurs<\/a> (40-16, second in the Western Conference) vs. Detroit Pistons<\/a> (42-13, first in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n

Detroit; Monday, 7 p.m. EST<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Detroit is looking to continue its five-game win streak with a victory over San Antonio.<\/p>\n

The Pistons are 22-6 on their home court. Detroit scores 117.6 points while outscoring opponents by 8.3 points per game.<\/p>\n

The Spurs are 19-10 on the road. San Antonio is the NBA<\/a> leader with 35.3 defensive rebounds per game led by Victor Wembanyama<\/a> averaging 9.3.<\/p>\n

The Pistons make 48.1% of their shots from the field this season, which is 2.7 percentage points higher than the Spurs have allowed to their opponents (45.4%). The Spurs score 9.3 more points per game (118.6) than the Pistons allow (109.3).<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Ausar Thompson<\/a> is scoring 10.2 points per game and averaging 5.9 rebounds for the Pistons. Cade Cunningham<\/a> is averaging 26.4 points and 5.9 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Wembanyama is averaging 24.3 points, 11.2 rebounds and 2.7 blocks for the Spurs. De’Aaron Fox<\/a> is averaging 15.8 points and 7.4 assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Pistons: 8-2, averaging 119.1 points, 44.9 rebounds, 27.8 assists, 11.1 steals and 5.1 blocks per game while shooting 48.6% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 106.2 points per game.<\/p>\n

Spurs: 9-1, averaging 124.0 points, 48.2 rebounds, 30.6 assists, 7.4 steals and 7.1 blocks per game while shooting 51.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 110.4 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Pistons: None listed.<\/p>\n

Spurs: David Jones Garcia: out for season (ankle), Lindy Waters III<\/a>: out (knee), Mason Plumlee: out (reconditioning).<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Antonio Spurs (40-16, second in the Western Conference) vs. Detroit Pistons (42-13, first in the Eastern Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1026,7,909,1314,188,78812,3304,1407,6,12,474,693],"class_list":{"0":"post-617450","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba-draft","8":"tag-ausar-thompson","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-cade-cunningham","11":"tag-deaaron-fox","12":"tag-detroit-pistons","13":"tag-event_preview","14":"tag-lindy-waters-iii","15":"tag-national-basketball-association","16":"tag-nba","17":"tag-nba-draft","18":"tag-san-antonio-spurs","19":"tag-victor-wembanyama"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116113500172366057","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617450","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=617450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}