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

Detroit; Sunday, 3:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

LINE: Pistons -8.5; over\/under is 202.5<\/p>\n

EASTERN CONFERENCE FIRST ROUND: Series tied 3-3<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Detroit Pistons host the Orlando Magic in game seven of the Eastern Conference first round. The Pistons defeated the Magic 93-79 in the last matchup on Friday. Cade Cunningham<\/a> led the Pistons with 32 points, and Desmond Bane<\/a> led the Magic with 17.<\/p>\n

The Pistons have gone 39-13 against Eastern Conference teams. Detroit leads the Eastern Conference with 57.9 points in the paint led by Jalen Duren<\/a> averaging 14.6.<\/p>\n

The Magic have gone 26-26 against Eastern Conference opponents. Orlando is ninth in the Eastern Conference with 26.5 assists per game led by Paolo Banchero<\/a> averaging 5.2.<\/p>\n

The Pistons score 117.8 points per game, 2.7 more points than the 115.1 the Magic allow. 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 allow.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Cunningham is averaging 23.9 points, 5.5 rebounds and 9.9 assists for the Pistons. Tobias Harris<\/a> is averaging 16.3 points and 6.3 rebounds over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Banchero is scoring 22.2 points per game and averaging 8.4 rebounds for the Magic. Jalen Suggs<\/a> is averaging 2.9 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Pistons: 6-4, averaging 109.6 points, 46.6 rebounds, 25.3 assists, 8.8 steals and 9.1 blocks per game while shooting 47.1% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 104.5 points per game.<\/p>\n

Magic: 6-4, averaging 108.0 points, 43.8 rebounds, 23.7 assists, 10.0 steals and 6.0 blocks per game while shooting 43.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 104.4 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Pistons: Kevin Huerter<\/a>: day to day (adductor).<\/p>\n

Magic: Franz Wagner<\/a>: out (calf), Jonathan Isaac<\/a>: day to day (knee).<\/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":"Orlando Magic (45-37, eighth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Detroit Pistons (60-22, first in the Eastern Conference) Detroit;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3779],"tags":[7,909,497,188,78812,403,912,461,2821,4103,48,1407,6,47,76,3883,402,933],"class_list":["post-724410","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-jalen-suggs","tag-jonathan-isaac","tag-kevin-huerter","tag-magic","tag-national-basketball-association","tag-nba","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-magic","tag-orlandomagic","tag-paolo-banchero","tag-tobias-harris"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116509370188738617","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724410","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=724410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724410\/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=724410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}