{"id":665538,"date":"2026-03-18T20:51:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T20:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/665538\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T20:51:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T20:51:26","slug":"pistons-cade-cunningham-ruled-out-for-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/665538\/","title":{"rendered":"Pistons&#8217; Cade Cunningham: Ruled out for Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"VideoPlayer-backgroundImage\" alt=\"default-cbs-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1773867086_932_video-slate.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nba\/teams\/DET\/detroit-pistons\/\" aria-label=\"home team page\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"TeamLogo-image\" alt=\"team logo\" src=\"https:\/\/sports.cbsimg.net\/fly\/images\/team-logos\/340.svg\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                                                <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nba\/players\/3177949\/cunningham\/fantasy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cunningham<\/a> is out for Thursday&#8217;s game versus the Wizards with a left back contusion.<\/p>\n<p>Cunningham left Tuesday&#8217;s win over Washington with the issue, and he was unable to practice Wednesday. It&#8217;s worth noting Thursday is the front end of Detroit&#8217;s back-to-back, so the team could be exercising caution with their franchise centerpiece. The <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nba\/teams\/DET\/detroit-pistons\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pistons<\/a> have typically turned to Daniss Jenkins to fill the void in the first unit in Cunningham&#8217;s previous absences, with Jenkins averaging 14.8 points, 7.0 assists, 2.9 rebounds and 1.3 steals in 31.4 minutes per tilt across eight games as a starter this season.<\/p>\n<p>        More News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cunningham is out for Thursday&#8217;s game versus the Wizards with a left back contusion. Cunningham left Tuesday&#8217;s win&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":639562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3773],"tags":[7,909,296,188,3860,2825,6,297],"class_list":{"0":"post-665538","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-detroit-pistons","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-cade-cunningham","10":"tag-detroit","11":"tag-detroit-pistons","12":"tag-detroitpistons","13":"tag-fantasy-basketball","14":"tag-nba","15":"tag-pistons"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116252160266441164","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665538","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=665538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/639562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}