{"id":667531,"date":"2026-03-19T21:10:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T21:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/667531\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T21:10:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T21:10:26","slug":"pistons-guard-cade-cunningham-out-with-collapsed-lung","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/667531\/","title":{"rendered":"Pistons Guard Cade Cunningham Out with Collapsed Lung"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The NBA has experienced a raft of injuries this year. On the heels of Minnesota Timberwolves perpetual MVP candidate Anthony Edwards going down with a knee injury, now another player on the fringes of that discussion has suffered a serious blow. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/shamscharania\/status\/2034619856423649708?s=46\" rel=\"nofollow\">Shams Charania of ESPN is reporting<\/a> that Cade Cunningham, lead guard of the Detroit Pistons, is expected to miss an \u201cextended period of time\u201d due to a collapsed lung.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The fifth-year guard, and current NBA All-Star, is averaging 24.5 points and 9.9 assists in 34.4 minutes per game for the Pistons this season. He has carried Detroit to a 49-19 record, good for first place in the NBA\u2019s Eastern Conference.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Pistons have 14 games remaining on their 2025-26 regular-season schedule, which ends April 12th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NBA has experienced a raft of injuries this year. On the heels of Minnesota Timberwolves perpetual MVP&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":667532,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3784],"tags":[7,601,6,3101,687,471,3967,1617],"class_list":{"0":"post-667531","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-portland-trail-blazers","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-blazers","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-nba-news","12":"tag-portland","13":"tag-portland-trail-blazers","14":"tag-portlandtrailblazers","15":"tag-trail-blazers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116257896803440520","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667531","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=667531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/667532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}