{"id":722679,"date":"2026-05-01T06:57:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T06:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/722679\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T06:57:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T06:57:18","slug":"magic-look-to-secure-series-win-over-the-pistons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/722679\/","title":{"rendered":"Magic look to secure series win over the Pistons"},"content":{"rendered":"

Detroit Pistons<\/a> (60-22, first in the Eastern Conference) vs. Orlando Magic<\/a> (45-37, eighth in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n

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

LINE: Pistons -3.5; over\/under is 210.5<\/p>\n

EASTERN CONFERENCE FIRST ROUND: Magic lead series 3-2<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Orlando Magic look to clinch the Eastern Conference first round over the Detroit Pistons in game six. The Pistons defeated the Magic 116-109 in the last meeting on Wednesday. Cade Cunningham<\/a> led the Pistons with 45 points, and Paolo Banchero<\/a> led the Magic with 45.<\/p>\n

The Magic are 26-26 against conference opponents. Orlando is 19-19 in games decided by 10 points or more.<\/p>\n

The Pistons are 39-13 against Eastern Conference opponents. Detroit averages 117.8 points while outscoring opponents by 8.2 points per game.<\/p>\n

The Magic average 11.7 made 3-pointers per game this season, 1.0 fewer make per game than the Pistons give up (12.7). The Pistons average 11.0 made 3-pointers per game this season, 1.1 fewer made shots on average than the 12.1 per game the Magic give up.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Desmond Bane<\/a> is shooting 48.4% and averaging 20.1 points for the Magic. Banchero is averaging 24.0 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Jalen Duren<\/a> is averaging 19.5 points and 10.5 rebounds for the Pistons. Cunningham is averaging 19.7 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Magic: 7-3, averaging 111.3 points, 45.7 rebounds, 24.4 assists, 10.0 steals and 6.1 blocks per game while shooting 44.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 105.9 points per game.<\/p>\n

Pistons: 6-4, averaging 111.9 points, 45.9 rebounds, 27.0 assists, 9.5 steals and 8.7 blocks per game while shooting 48.0% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 105.9 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Magic: Franz Wagner<\/a>: day to day (calf), Jonathan Isaac<\/a>: day to day (knee).<\/p>\n

Pistons: Kevin Huerter<\/a>: day to day (adductor).<\/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 (60-22, first in the Eastern Conference) vs. Orlando Magic (45-37, eighth 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":[7,909,497,188,78812,403,912,2821,4103,48,1407,6,47,76,3883,402],"class_list":["post-722679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando-magic","tag-basketball","tag-cade-cunningham","tag-desmond-bane","tag-detroit-pistons","tag-event_preview","tag-franz-wagner","tag-jalen-duren","tag-jonathan-isaac","tag-kevin-huerter","tag-magic","tag-national-basketball-association","tag-nba","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-magic","tag-orlandomagic","tag-paolo-banchero"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116498021966072442","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722679","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=722679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722679\/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=722679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=722679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=722679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}