DETROIT (WXYZ) \u2014 The Detroit Pistons took care of business on their home floor, beating the Orlando Magic, 116-94, to win Game 7 and advance to the Eastern Conference Semi-Finals.<\/p>\n
Cade Cunningham (32 points) and Tobias Harris (30) led the Pistons in scoring. Daniss Jenkins played a pivotal role off the bench, scoring 16 points, including a three to beat the third quarter buzzer. <\/p>\n
Hear from Pistons players and Coach Bickerstaff after the win<\/p>\n
Hear from Pistons players and Coach Bickerstaff after Game 7 win over Magic<\/p>\n
Per the ESPN broadcast, Cunningham and Harris were the 10th teammates in NBA history to each score 30 points in a Game 7. The Magic’s Paolo Banchero led all players with 38 points. <\/p>\n
The Pistons led by double digits for the entirety of the second half. It was a back-and-forth affair for most of the first half, until Tobias Harris went on a scoring surge, propelling the Pistons to a 60-49 lead at the half after scoring 19 points over the first two quarters. 17 second-quarter points from Harris helped the Pistons outscore the Magic in that 12-minute period, 40-27. <\/p>\n
This is the first time the Pistons have won a playoff series since beating the Magic in five games in the Eastern Conference Semifinals in 2008. It’s the first playoff series that a Detroit team has won since Little Caesars Arena opened in 2017. This is also the first time the Pistons came back from a 3-1 deficit to win a series since beating the Magic in the first round in 2003.<\/p>\n
The Pistons will go on to face the winner of tonight’s game between the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Toronto Raptors, who tip off in their own Game 7 later this evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DETROIT (WXYZ) \u2014 The Detroit Pistons took care of business on their home floor, beating the Orlando Magic,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":725395,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3779],"tags":[6241,1026,7,909,497,188,6242,912,3578,48,6,11,47,76,3883],"class_list":["post-725394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando-magic","tag-7-action-news-sports","tag-ausar-thompson","tag-basketball","tag-cade-cunningham","tag-desmond-bane","tag-detroit-pistons","tag-detroit-sports","tag-jalen-duren","tag-jb-bickerstaff","tag-magic","tag-nba","tag-nba-playoffs","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-magic","tag-orlandomagic"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116516046986461281","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725394","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=725394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/725395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}