{"id":725406,"date":"2026-05-04T11:40:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T11:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/725406\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T11:40:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T11:40:17","slug":"the-detroit-pistons-defeated-the-magic-in-game-seven-to-win-their-first-playoff-series-since-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/725406\/","title":{"rendered":"The Detroit Pistons defeated the Magic in game seven to win their first playoff series since 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">DETROIT, Mich. (WNEM) &#8211; On Sunday night, the Detroit Pistons played the Orlando Magic in game seven of the first round of the NBA Playoffs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">After a back-and-forth first quarter and a half, the Pistons gained momentum and pulled away, beating the Magic 116-94. For the first time since 2008, Detroit has won a playoff series and is advancing to the next round.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Cade Cunningham would lead the team with 32 points and 12 assists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Tobias Harris would also have an impressive night with 30 points and 9 rebounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Jalen Duren would add a double-double with 15 points and 15 rebounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Pistons now advance to the Eastern Conference Semifinals, where they\u2019ll meet the Cleveland Cavaliers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Game one of the series will take place on Tuesday night at 7.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Hear from head coach J.B. Bickerstaff, Duren, and Cunningham in the video above!<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WNEM. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DETROIT, Mich. (WNEM) &#8211; On Sunday night, the Detroit Pistons played the Orlando Magic in game seven of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":725407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3773],"tags":[7,296,188,3860,6,76,297,34],"class_list":{"0":"post-725406","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-detroit-pistons","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-detroit","10":"tag-detroit-pistons","11":"tag-detroitpistons","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-orlando-magic","14":"tag-pistons","15":"tag-playoffs"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116516121804757386","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725406","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=725406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/725407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}