The Pistons ended a 16-game losing streak to the Knicks with a 120-111 win at Madison Square Garden on Saturday night. Cade Cunningham, who signed a max rookie scale extension in the offseason, carried them to victory with a triple-double, the first time a Detroit player has performed that feat at MSG.
Cunningham told reporters after the game that feels as if he’s moving into the conversation for All-Star consideration.
“I believe I am,” Cunningham said, per Hunter Patterson of The Athletic. “Whenever I’m on the court every night, I feel like I’m the best player. I try to do whatever it takes to help my team win, and my teammates have made me look great this year. I’m just trying to help my team win and we’ll see what happens with it.”
In his last 10 games, Cunningham is averaging 24.5 points, 10.0 assists and 7.1 rebounds, Patterson notes.
We have more from the Central Division:
- A 90-minute shootaround session paid dividends for the Pacers on Friday. They snapped a four-game losing streak with a 132-123 win in Chicago. “We spent a lot of time (Friday) morning and really had the longest shootaround that I’ve had since I’ve been here,” coach Rick Carlisle told Dustin Dopirak of the Indianapolis Star. “We just had a lot of things that we had to clean up. One of them was our offensive spacing and movement.”
- The Cavaliers had made 40.5% of their threes heading into Sunday’s action, leading the NBA in that category. They are tops in the league from long range and have a 17-0 record when making 35% or more of their three-point tries. “It’s starting to be real, this deep into the season,” Cleveland coach Kenny Atkinson told Joe Vardon of The Athletic. “You can qualify us as a super excellent shooting team.”
- Jerome Allen returned to the Pistons‘ staff this season under J.B. Bickerstaff after previously serving under Dwane Casey. In between, Allen worked in a variety of roles at Detroit Mumford High School and Omari Sankofa II of the Detroit Free Press details Allen’s lasting impact at the school.
- Cavs forward Evan Mobley rolled his left ankle on Sunday and was ruled out for the second half, Tim Reynolds of The Associated Press tweets.
Okoro missed the game. Mobley went out the game, turned an ankle. Heat get a big win. Heat get their young guys to step up. They are a tough out in playoffs. Looked good today against Cavs.
Knicks got spanked by Pistons.
Bucks in a close one over Nets.
Looks like Bucks n Heat are starting to wake up.
The Lakers beat the Supersonics…
Yeah, they’ve started to wake up a lot over the past few years.
Gotta give Mobley is plaudits for the 41 point, 10 rebound game against the Hornets. Yes, they’re hurt and not that good, but 6/8 from 3 and 16/23 overall matters a lot. Especially the 3s.
Doesn’t look like the ankle was too serious for Mobley. He kept playing for a while afterwards, so not debilitating. Hopefully he’s just day-to-day.