The Detroit Pistons have apparently taken last season’s playoff loss to the New York Knicks personally.
For the third time this season, the Pistons blew out the Knicks. Thursday night, Detroit traveled to a 126-111 victory at Madison Square Garden, sweeping their series for the 2025-26 regular season. The Pistons won with an average of 28 points in their three games.
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Cade Cunningham scored a game-high 42 points with 13 assists and 8 rebounds, leading the Pistons to strengthen their record at the top of the Eastern Conference at 41-13. Paul Reed, starting in place of Jalen Duren, suspended All-Staradded 18 points, 7 rebounds and 3 blocks. Tobias Harris scored 11 points with 10 rebounds and 5 assists.
Outside shooting was a major problem for the Knicks on Thursday, hitting just 23 percent of their 3-point attempts (8 of 35). But they actually improved their 3-point shooting in the second half after being 1 of 16 (6%) in the first half. Jalen Brunson opened the game by hitting a 3. However, the Knicks missed their next 15 3-point attempts and Detroit took a 58-48 lead into halftime.
New York entered Thursday’s game with the third-best 3-point shooting percentage in the NBA at 37.8 percent. Only the Denver Nuggets (39.5%) and Milwaukee Bucks (39.2%) were better.
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