{"id":715010,"date":"2026-04-21T06:33:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T06:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/715010\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T06:33:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T06:33:21","slug":"orlando-visits-detroit-with-1-0-series-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/715010\/","title":{"rendered":"Orlando visits Detroit with 1-0 series lead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-ace7f8b6=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/orlando-magic-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Orlando Magic<\/a> (45-37, eighth in the Eastern Conference) vs. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/detroit-pistons-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Detroit Pistons<\/a> (60-22, first in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-ace7f8b6=\"\">Detroit; Wednesday, 7 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-ace7f8b6=\"\">LINE: Pistons -9.5; over\/under is 218.5<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-ace7f8b6=\"\">EASTERN CONFERENCE FIRST ROUND: Magic lead series 1-0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-ace7f8b6=\"\">BOTTOM LINE: The Orlando Magic visit the Detroit Pistons in the Eastern Conference first round with a 1-0 lead in the series. The Magic won the last matchup 112-101 on Sunday, led by 23 points from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/paolo-banchero-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paolo Banchero<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/cade-cunningham-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cade Cunningham<\/a> led the Pistons with 39.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-ace7f8b6=\"\">The Pistons are 39-13 in Eastern Conference games. Detroit leads the Eastern Conference with 57.9 points in the paint led by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/jalen-duren-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jalen Duren<\/a> averaging 14.6.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-ace7f8b6=\"\">The Magic have gone 26-26 against Eastern Conference opponents. Orlando is ninth in the Eastern Conference scoring 115.7 points per game and is shooting 46.4%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-ace7f8b6=\"\">The Pistons average 117.8 points per game, 2.7 more points than the 115.1 the Magic give up. The Magic average 11.7 made 3-pointers per game this season, 1.0 fewer made shot on average than the 12.7 per game the Pistons give up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-ace7f8b6=\"\">TOP PERFORMERS: Cunningham is scoring 23.9 points per game with 5.5 rebounds and 9.9 assists for the Pistons. Duren is averaging 14.6 points and 7.7 rebounds while shooting 72.4% over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-ace7f8b6=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/wendell-carter-jr-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wendell Carter Jr.<\/a> is shooting 51.2% and averaging 11.8 points for the Magic. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/jalen-suggs-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jalen Suggs<\/a> is averaging 2.9 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-ace7f8b6=\"\">LAST 10 GAMES: Pistons: 7-3, averaging 117.1 points, 44.2 rebounds, 30.6 assists, 10.2 steals and 7.0 blocks per game while shooting 50.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 108.5 points per game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-ace7f8b6=\"\">Magic: 7-3, averaging 115.5 points, 44.4 rebounds, 27.7 assists, 9.0 steals and 4.4 blocks per game while shooting 46.6% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 115.9 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-ace7f8b6=\"\">INJURIES: Pistons: Jalen Duren: day to day (knee).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-ace7f8b6=\"\">Magic: Jonathan Isaac: day to day (knee).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-ace7f8b6=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-ace7f8b6=\"\">The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Orlando Magic (45-37, eighth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Detroit Pistons (60-22, first in the Eastern Conference) Detroit;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3779],"tags":[7,909,188,78812,912,461,48,1407,6,47,76,3883,402,454],"class_list":{"0":"post-715010","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando-magic","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-cade-cunningham","10":"tag-detroit-pistons","11":"tag-event_preview","12":"tag-jalen-duren","13":"tag-jalen-suggs","14":"tag-magic","15":"tag-national-basketball-association","16":"tag-nba","17":"tag-orlando","18":"tag-orlando-magic","19":"tag-orlandomagic","20":"tag-paolo-banchero","21":"tag-wendell-carter-jr"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116441304599427078","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715010","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=715010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715010\/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=715010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}