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Detroit Pistons<\/a> (57-21, first in the Eastern Conference) vs. Orlando Magic<\/a> (42-36, ninth in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n

Orlando, Florida; Monday, 7 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Pistons -3.5; over\/under is 225.5<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Detroit will try to keep its three-game win streak intact when the Pistons take on Orlando.<\/p>\n

The Magic are 24-25 against Eastern Conference opponents. Orlando is ninth in the Eastern Conference with 32.4 defensive rebounds per game led by Paolo Banchero<\/a> averaging 7.2.<\/p>\n

The Pistons are 36-12 in conference matchups. Detroit is the top team in the Eastern Conference with 57.7 points per game in the paint led by Jalen Duren<\/a> averaging 14.5.<\/p>\n

The Magic make 46.3% of their shots from the field this season, which is 2.0 percentage points higher than the Pistons have allowed to their opponents (44.3%). The Pistons average 10.9 made 3-pointers per game this season, 1.1 fewer made shots on average than the 12.0 per game the Magic allow.<\/p>\n

The teams play for the fourth time this season. In the last meeting on March 1 the Pistons won 106-92 led by 29 points from Cade Cunningham<\/a>, while Banchero scored 24 points for the Magic.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Desmond Bane<\/a> is averaging 20.4 points and 4.2 assists for the Magic. Banchero is averaging 21.3 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Duren is scoring 19.5 points per game with 10.6 rebounds and 1.9 assists for the Pistons. Daniss Jenkins<\/a> is averaging 19.0 points and 4.4 rebounds while shooting 44.8% over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Magic: 4-6, averaging 114.6 points, 40.3 rebounds, 26.4 assists, 7.3 steals and 2.4 blocks per game while shooting 45.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 123.1 points per game.<\/p>\n

Pistons: 8-2, averaging 117.8 points, 44.1 rebounds, 31.2 assists, 10.3 steals and 6.0 blocks per game while shooting 49.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 106.2 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Magic: Jett Howard<\/a>: day to day (ankle), Anthony Black<\/a>: out (abdomen), Jonathan Isaac<\/a>: out (knee).<\/p>\n

Pistons: Tobias Harris<\/a>: day to day (knee), Cade Cunningham: out (lung), Isaiah Stewart: out (calf), Duncan Robinson<\/a>: day to day (hip).<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Detroit Pistons (57-21, first in the Eastern Conference) vs. Orlando Magic (42-36, ninth in the Eastern Conference) Orlando,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3779],"tags":[1130,7,909,6101,497,188,4958,78812,912,460,2821,48,1407,6,47,76,3883,402,933],"class_list":{"0":"post-700979","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando-magic","8":"tag-anthony-black","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-cade-cunningham","11":"tag-daniss-jenkins","12":"tag-desmond-bane","13":"tag-detroit-pistons","14":"tag-duncan-robinson","15":"tag-event_preview","16":"tag-jalen-duren","17":"tag-jett-howard","18":"tag-jonathan-isaac","19":"tag-magic","20":"tag-national-basketball-association","21":"tag-nba","22":"tag-orlando","23":"tag-orlando-magic","24":"tag-orlandomagic","25":"tag-paolo-banchero","26":"tag-tobias-harris"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116356413091688942","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700979","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=700979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}