{"id":511289,"date":"2026-04-19T22:50:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T02:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=511289"},"modified":"2026-04-19T22:51:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T02:51:50","slug":"magic-shock-top-seeded-pistons-to-win-game-1-from-the-series","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/magic-shock-top-seeded-pistons-to-win-game-1-from-the-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Magic shock top-seeded Pistons to win Game 1 from the series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paolo Banchero finished with 23 points, 9 boards, and 4 assists to lead the 8th-seeded Orlando Magic to a 112-101 victory against the top-seeded Detroit Pistons in Game 1 of their 1st-round matchup, extending the longest home postseason losing streak in league history.<\/p>\n<p>The Pistons have dropped 11 consecutive home matches in the playoffs, a drought that dates in the past 18 years.<\/p>\n<p>Detroit will have another opportunity vs. the Magic on Wednesday to tie the series.<\/p>\n<p>Pistons\u2019 Cade Cunningham notched a postseason career-high 39 points, and Tobias Harris scored 17 points for the top-seeded team in the East, but the rest of the players were limited on offense for Detroit.<\/p>\n<p>Detroit hasn\u2019t advanced beyond the 1<sup>st<\/sup> round in the playoffs for almost 20 years, while Orlando hasn\u2019t since 2010.<\/p>\n<p>The team from Florida, coming off a rout of the Hornets in a play-in match at the end of the past week, led 18-5 midway in the 1<sup>st<\/sup> quarter after holding the top-seeded organization in the Eastern Conference to a 1-of-6 shooting with 4 turnovers in their 1<sup>st<\/sup> match in 7 days and things look very interesting before Game 2 as Orlando has the chance to travel back home with even 2 wins in Detroit.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">THE 8-SEED MAGIC WIN GAME 1 IN DETROIT \ud83e\ude84<\/p>\n<p>This series could get interesting \ud83d\udc40 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bHxTxSjlm0\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/bHxTxSjlm0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SportsCenter\/status\/2046034324965724466?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 20, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paolo Banchero finished with 23 points, 9 boards, and 4 assists to lead the 8th-seeded Orlando Magic to a 112-101 victory against the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":511290,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16727,16758],"news_category":[16706,16715],"gn_keywords":[18432,17892],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"Orlando stunned Detroit and took the 1st match in the series.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/511289"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511289"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/511289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":511292,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/511289\/revisions\/511292"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/511290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511289"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=511289"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=511289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}