{"id":700923,"date":"2026-04-06T06:02:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T06:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/700923\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T06:02:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T06:02:14","slug":"how-pistons-win-over-76ers-clinched-no-1-seed-in-eastern-conference-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/700923\/","title":{"rendered":"How Pistons Win Over 76ers Clinched No. 1 Seed in Eastern Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nba\/pistons\/onsi\/news\/why-the-detroit-pistons-could-face-issues-next-season-with-local-broadcast-partners-01kncj5kqzyd\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Detroit Pistons<\/a> defeated the Philadelphia 76ers 116-93 on Saturday night to wrap up the No. 1 seed in the Eastern Conference for the first time since the 2006-2007 NBA season.<\/p>\n<p>The Pistons improved to 57-21 overall, and 26-12 on the road with the win. Detroit and Pistons coach JB Bickerstaff can now take the final games of the regular season to rest players, and look ahead to the postseason.<\/p>\n<p>The Pistons are still <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nba\/pistons\/onsi\/news\/three-detroit-pistons-players-that-have-impressed-most-without-cade-cunningham-01kmtf5m43sf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">without star Cade Cunningham,<\/a> who missed his tenth game due to a collapsed lung. The Pistons have ben able to go 8-2 in his absence as they have found production from the bench and other role players to fill the gap left behind by Cunningham.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tEvery Pistons Starter Recorded Double-Digit Points<\/p>\n<p>The Pistons got off to a hot start, exploding for 41 first quarter points against the 76ers before the Sixers\u2019 tightened the screws on defense and held Detroit to just 30 second-quarter points. <\/p>\n<p>Every Single Pistons starter logged double-digit points, while just three 76ers starters were able to do the same. The Pistons held the Sixers to 28 percent shooting from three.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Daniss Jenkins Continues to be an X-Factor for Detroit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Detroit Pistons defeated the Philadelphia 76ers 116-93 on Saturday night to wrap up the No. 1 seed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":700924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3773],"tags":[7,296,188,3860,6,297],"class_list":{"0":"post-700923","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":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700923","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=700923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/700924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}