{"id":699715,"date":"2026-04-05T14:56:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T14:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/699715\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T14:56:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T14:56:17","slug":"deadline-detroit-detroit-pistons-clinch-top-spot-in-the-east-for-the-first-time-since-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/699715\/","title":{"rendered":"Deadline Detroit | Detroit Pistons Clinch Top Spot in the East for the First Time Since 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"article_photo_item\" data-id=\"59563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/det_25-26_mktg_playoffs-on-sale-now_header_2480x520_59563.jpg\" width=\"420px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tIt seems like another lifetime since the Pistons finished in last place in the Eastern Division. But for two years in a row, from 2022 to 2024, they ended up in the very last spot.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tFast forward to Saturday, when the Pistons clinched the top spot in the division with a 116\u201393 victory over the Philadelphia 76ers. They hadn&#8217;t done that since 2007.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tThe Pistons are 57\u201321, 4.5 games ahead of the Boston Celtics and 7 games ahead of the Knicks. Both teams could be fierce competition in the East.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tIn the West, Oklahoma has the best record in the NBA at 61\u201316, followed by San Antonio at 59\u201319.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; It seems like another lifetime since the Pistons finished in last place in the Eastern Division. But&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":699716,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3773],"tags":[7,296,188,3860,6,297],"class_list":{"0":"post-699715","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-detroit-pistons","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-detroit","10":"tag-detroit-pistons","11":"tag-detroitpistons","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-pistons"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116352686713075307","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699715","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=699715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/699716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}