{"id":511755,"date":"2026-05-03T21:35:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T01:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=511755"},"modified":"2026-05-03T21:36:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T01:36:37","slug":"pistons-win-decisive-game-7-against-magic-to-finish-comeback","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/pistons-win-decisive-game-7-against-magic-to-finish-comeback\/","title":{"rendered":"Pistons win decisive Game 7 against Magic to finish comeback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cade Cunningham finished with 32 points and 12 assists, Tobias Harris helped with 30 points, and the Detroit Pistons defeated the Orlando Magic 116-94 in Game 7 to win a postseason matchup for the 1<sup>st<\/sup> time in 18 seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Cade averaged almost 33 points for the Pistons, which last triumphed in a playoff series by defeating the Magic in the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> round in 2008. Detroit will face in the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> round the winner between the Cavs and Raptors as the 1<sup>st<\/sup> match of the series will be on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Detroit became the 15th organization in league history to win a series after trailing 3-1 and the 2nd in the last 2 days, after Philly came back to eliminate the Celtics.<\/p>\n<p>The Pistons trailed by 24 points in Game 6 in Florida before winning the match and forcing Game 7 at home. Magic notched only 113 points in the final 6 quarters of the matchup \u2013 an average of only almost 19 points per quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Cunningham and Harris became the 1<sup>st<\/sup> Detroit teammates to finish with at least 30 points in a postseason match since 1977 as now the fans will expect the duo to lead the team to the title.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">THE PISTONS COME BACK FROM A 3-1 DEFICIT TO ADVANCE \ud83d\udd25<\/p>\n<p>Detroit gets it done in Game 7 for their first playoff series win since 2008! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mev3pRaCl4\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/mev3pRaCl4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ESPN (@espn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/espn\/status\/2051062286530306201?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 3, 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>Cade Cunningham finished with 32 points and 12 assists, Tobias Harris helped with 30 points, and the Detroit Pistons defeated the Orlando Magic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":511757,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16727,16758],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[18432,17892],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"Detroit won their 1st playoff series in 18 years by beating Orlando.","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\/511755"}],"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=511755"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/511755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":511759,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/511755\/revisions\/511759"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/511757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511755"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=511755"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=511755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}