{"id":736530,"date":"2026-05-17T06:21:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T06:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/736530\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T06:21:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T06:21:16","slug":"detroit-cleveland-set-for-game-7-matchup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/736530\/","title":{"rendered":"Detroit, Cleveland set for game 7 matchup"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cleveland Cavaliers<\/a> (52-30, fourth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Detroit Pistons<\/a> (60-22, first in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n

Detroit; Sunday, 8 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

LINE: Pistons -4.5; over\/under is 206.5<\/p>\n

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

BOTTOM LINE: The Detroit Pistons host the Cleveland Cavaliers in game seven of the Eastern Conference second round. The Pistons defeated the Cavaliers 115-94 in the last matchup on Friday. Cade Cunningham<\/a> led the Pistons with 21 points, and James Harden<\/a> led the Cavaliers with 23.<\/p>\n

The Pistons are 12-4 against division opponents. Detroit is the top team in the Eastern Conference with 57.9 points in the paint led by Jalen Duren<\/a> averaging 14.6.<\/p>\n

The Cavaliers are 11-5 against the rest of the division. Cleveland ranks fifth in the Eastern Conference with 28.3 assists per game led by Harden averaging 8.0.<\/p>\n

The Pistons score 117.8 points per game, 2.4 more points than the 115.4 the Cavaliers allow. The Cavaliers average 9.9 more points per game (119.5) than the Pistons allow (109.6).<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Duren is averaging 19.5 points and 10.5 rebounds for the Pistons. Cunningham is averaging 28.8 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Donovan Mitchell<\/a> is scoring 27.9 points per game with 4.5 rebounds and 5.7 assists for the Cavaliers. Harden is averaging 20.4 points and 5.7 rebounds while shooting 40.7% over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Pistons: 6-4, averaging 107.1 points, 43.6 rebounds, 22.7 assists, 9.1 steals and 6.8 blocks per game while shooting 46.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 101.3 points per game.<\/p>\n

Cavaliers: 5-5, averaging 107.5 points, 43.0 rebounds, 20.9 assists, 7.2 steals and 6.0 blocks per game while shooting 44.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 108.5 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Pistons: Caris LeVert: day to day (heel), Kevin Huerter<\/a>: day to day (adductor), Duncan Robinson<\/a>: day to day (back).<\/p>\n

Cavaliers: Larry Nance<\/a> Jr.: day to day (illness).<\/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":"Cleveland Cavaliers (52-30, fourth 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":[3773],"tags":[7,909,193,296,188,3860,864,4958,78812,912,560,4103,2988,1407,6,297],"class_list":["post-736530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-detroit-pistons","tag-basketball","tag-cade-cunningham","tag-cleveland-cavaliers","tag-detroit","tag-detroit-pistons","tag-detroitpistons","tag-donovan-mitchell","tag-duncan-robinson","tag-event_preview","tag-jalen-duren","tag-james-harden","tag-kevin-huerter","tag-larry-nance-jr","tag-national-basketball-association","tag-nba","tag-pistons"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116588477398945447","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736530","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=736530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736530\/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=736530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}