{"id":620982,"date":"2026-02-24T02:35:48","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T02:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/620982\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T02:35:48","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T02:35:48","slug":"tempers-flare-in-1st-half-of-spurs-pistons-game-in-a-matchup-of-2-of-nbas-top-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/620982\/","title":{"rendered":"Tempers flare in 1st half of Spurs-Pistons game in a matchup of 2 of NBA’s top teams"},"content":{"rendered":"

DETROIT (AP) \u2014 Tempers flared in the first half of the San Antonio Spurs<\/a>– Detroit Pistons<\/a> game, a matchup of two of the NBA’s<\/a> top teams on Monday night.<\/p>\n

Pistons star Cade Cunningham<\/a> was called for an offensive foul after extending his arms and knocking Spurs guard Stephon Castle<\/a> down on the court.<\/p>\n

Spurs forward Keldon Johnson<\/a> responded by pushing Cunningham and Pistons center Jalen Duren<\/a>, who was recently suspended by the league, pointed his right finger in Johnson’s face.<\/p>\n

After a review, Johnson and Duren were called for technical fouls in the second quarter of the closely contested game.<\/p>\n

The NBA suspended center Isaiah Stewart<\/a> for seven games earlier this month after he left the bench during a fight in Detroit’s game at Charlotte, and he was still serving the suspension during San Antonio’s visit. Duren was forced to sit for two games for initiating the altercation.<\/p>\n

The Pistons have the best record in the Eastern Conference and the Victor Wembanyama<\/a> -led Spurs trail only the defending champion Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a> in the Western Conference.<\/p>\n

Detroit hosts Oklahoma City on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

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AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/NBA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DETROIT (AP) \u2014 Tempers flared in the first half of the San Antonio Spurs– Detroit Pistons game, a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[7,909,188,1016,912,2850,1407,6,12,474,930,693],"class_list":{"0":"post-620982","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba-draft","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-cade-cunningham","10":"tag-detroit-pistons","11":"tag-isaiah-stewart","12":"tag-jalen-duren","13":"tag-keldon-johnson","14":"tag-national-basketball-association","15":"tag-nba","16":"tag-nba-draft","17":"tag-san-antonio-spurs","18":"tag-stephon-castle","19":"tag-victor-wembanyama"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116123279377840530","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620982","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=620982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620982\/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=620982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}