ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Cade Cunningham scored 32 points and the top-seeded Detroit Pistons pulled off an incredible rally Friday night, erasing a 24-point deficit and beating the Orlando Magic 93-79 to force a Game 7 in their Eastern Conference first-round series.<\/p>\n
Detroit trailed by 22 at the half and Orlando\u2019s lead went to 62-38 early in the third quarter. The Magic looked absolutely poised to become the seventh No. 8 seed to eliminate a No. 1 seed in the conference quarterfinal round.<\/p>\n
And then everything went wrong for Orlando. Everything.<\/p>\n
The Magic became the first team since 1996-97 \u2014 when play-by-play began getting tracked digitally \u2014 to lose at home after leading by at least 24 points with a chance to win a series.<\/p>\n
Tobias Harris scored 22 points for Detroit, which will host Game 7 on Sunday. Paolo Banchero and Desmond Bane each scored 17 for Orlando, which is now 0-2 in closeout opportunities in this series.<\/p>\n
RAPTORS 112, CAVALIERS 110, OT<\/p>\n
TORONTO (AP) \u2014 RJ Barrett hit a 3-pointer with 1.2 seconds remaining in overtime and Toronto pushed their Eastern Conference first-round playoff series to a seventh game by beating Cleveland.<\/p>\n
Evan Mobley had a chance to win it for Cleveland but his 3-pointer bounced off the front of the rim.<\/p>\n
Scottie Barnes had 25 points and 14 assists, Barrett and Ja\u2019Kobe Walter both scored 24 points and Collin Murray-Boyles added 17 as Toronto held on after blowing an 11-point lead in the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n
Game 7 is in Cleveland on Sunday. The home team has won all six games so far in the series.<\/p>\n
Mobley had 26 points and 14 rebounds, Donovan Mitchell scored 24 points and James Harden had 16 for the Cavaliers. Jarrett Allen scored 14 points and Dean Wade had 10.<\/p>\n
HOUSTON (AP) \u2014 LeBron James had 28 points and Los Angeles eliminated Houston in Game 6 of their Western Conference first-round playoff series by holding the Rockets to a season low in points.<\/p>\n
The No. 4 seed Lakers move on to meet the top-seeded Thunder with Game 1 Tuesday in Oklahoma City.<\/p>\n
The Lakers used a 27-3 run in the first half to take an 18-point lead at halftime. They led by 22 with about three minutes left in the third quarter before Houston went on an 8-2 run to cut the lead to 71-55 entering the fourth.<\/p>\n
But Los Angeles opened the quarter with a 10-3 spurt, with five points from Rui Hachimura, to make it 81-58 with about seven minutes left.<\/p>\n
Hachimura added 21 points with five 3-pointers.<\/p>\n
Amen Thompson had 18 points and Alperen Sengun added 17 for Houston, which is heading home after a first-round playoff loss for a second straight season after losing to the Warriors in seven games last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Cade Cunningham scored 32 points and the top-seeded Detroit Pistons pulled off an incredible…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":723690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3779],"tags":[1307,883,7,909,305,5759,497,864,576,560,1178,185,48,6,47,76,3883,29496,402,89933,29494,13843,1012,1261,933],"class_list":["post-723689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando-magic","tag-alperen-sengun","tag-amen-thompson","tag-basketball","tag-cade-cunningham","tag-cleveland","tag-dean-wade","tag-desmond-bane","tag-donovan-mitchell","tag-evan-mobley","tag-james-harden","tag-jarrett-allen","tag-lebron-james","tag-magic","tag-nba","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-magic","tag-orlandomagic","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-paolo-banchero","tag-playoff-capsules","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-r-j-barrett","tag-rui-hachimura","tag-scottie-barnes","tag-tobias-harris"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116504627985308241","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723689","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=723689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/723690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}