Detroit Pistons

The Orlando Magic flipped the script and now host the Detroit Pistons at home in their first-round series, with two games having the court advantage.

After dominating the Eastern Conference all season, the top-seeded Detroit Pistons find themselves down 2-1 to the Orlando Magic after dropping Game 3 on the road. The Magic are now firmly in the driver’s seat after Paolo Banchero put the final nail in the coffin in their first home game of the 2026 playoffs. Banchero […] The post Paolo Banchero gets wild bounce to help Magic clinch Game 3 win vs. Pistons appeared first on ClutchPoints.

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The Playoffs are about adjustments. Both teams tinker their offense until they find the hardest problem for the opponent to solve, while simultaneously trying

Pistons look to retake control of the series with a road win in Orlando

Saturday's slate features four games: Pistons vs. Magic, Thunder vs. Suns, Knicks vs. Hawks and Nuggets vs. Timberwolves

We have a rock fight on our hands. The Detroit Pistons take their rugged, unhinged defense on the road to Orlando. They can take a 2-1 series lead if they swarm the Magic and get more from Jalen Duren. Detroit and Orlando have both shown that this will be a cracked-knuckles, first-to-100-wins type series. That […]

The Pistons’ gameplan is generally the same for each game — play suffocating defense and take the starch out of the opposition. That’s what happened in Game 2 of their first-round series against No. 8 seed Orlando. The Pistons are now on the road for a pivotal Game 3 on Saturday afternoon. “It was five […]

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Jeff Teague backs Magic’s home-court surge, expecting Orlando’s playoff energy to overwhelm the Pistons in the pivotal Game 3 showdown.

NBA local viewership remained essentially flat compared to the prior season in 2025-26, but league officials and media analysts view that stability as a meaningful achievement amid accelerating cord-cutting trends that cost the NBA 12 percent of its in-market audience just one year earlier. The Denver Nuggets, Detroit Pistons, Philadelphia 76ers, Phoenix Suns and New York Knicks recorded the largest year-over-year local audience gains across the league, according to Nielsen Station Index data...

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The Minnesota Timberwolves were one of the NBA's most frustrating teams during the regular season — stacked with plenty of talent but not quite able to live up to their potential. The Timberwolves have a 2-1 series lead over the Denver Nuggets in the first-round series. Game 4 will be played in Minnesota on Saturday.

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Austin Brown, the co-head of CAA’s basketball division, was repeatedly cited as a possible target for the Bulls after they dismissed front office executives Arturas Karnisovas and Marc Eversley earlier this month, with Shams Charania of ESPN confirming on Monday that Chicago hoped to meet with Brown about the team’s vacancy at the top of […]

Magic So close to 2-0. Then one quarter changed everything for the Magic. A 30-3 run by the Pistons flipped Game 2, turning control into a missed opportunity. Orlando dropped the game and now heads home tied 1-1. No brushing that off. “You can’t just flush it and act like nothing happened,” Paolo Banchero said, via […] The post NBA Notes: Magic, Paolo Banchero, Nuggets, Nikola Jokic, Grizzlies appeared first on Hoops Wire.

The Magic beat the Pistons in Game 1 of their series on Sunday, then were tied halfway through Game 2 and held Detroit to 14 fourth-quarter points on Wednesday. However, a disaster of a third quarter in which the Pistons opened on a 30-3 run and outscored Orlando 38-16 cost the Magic a shot at […]

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