{"id":512097,"date":"2026-05-14T04:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T08:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=512097"},"modified":"2026-05-14T04:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T08:56:08","slug":"cavaliers-beat-pistons-after-ot-to-secure-3-2-series-lead","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/cavaliers-beat-pistons-after-ot-to-secure-3-2-series-lead\/","title":{"rendered":"Cavaliers beat Pistons after OT to secure 3-2 series lead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Cleveland Cavaliers came back from being down 9 points with less than 3 minutes until the end of the regular time and then beat the Detroit Pistons 117-113 in OT to take a 3-2 lead in the East Conference \u00bd finals.<\/p>\n<p>Cavs, who lost all their previous 5 matches away from home in the current playoffs, trailed 103-94 before scoring 9 unanswered points to force OT.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat happened in the last 3 minutes showed a lot about our progress,\u201d Cleveland manager Kenny Atkinson shared after the triumph. \u201cThe progress on mentality is the most important thing\u2026. These players, they never give up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pistons had almost 97% chance to secure the victory with a 9-point lead with less than 3 minutes left in the regulation, but Cavs finished the match on a 23-10 run.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m really proud of my teammates and the mentality of this team,\u201d Cleveland superstar Donovan Mitchell shared.<\/p>\n<p>James Harden ended the game with 30 points and 6 assists in his best postseason scoring performance with the Cavaliers. Max Strus helped with 20 points and 8 boards from the bench for the win.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Cleveland trailed 103-94 with 3 minutes remaining.<\/p>\n<p>Cavs closed regulation on a 9-0 run to force OT.<\/p>\n<p>They outscored Detroit 14-10 in OT, closing the game on a 23-10 run.<\/p>\n<p>Cleveland wins their first road game of the postseason and takes a 3-2 series lead in East Semis \ud83e\udd2f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tofN0LCxz9\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/tofN0LCxz9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NBA (@NBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBA\/status\/2054765358687408226?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 14, 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>The Cleveland Cavaliers came back from being down 9 points with less than 3 minutes until the end of the regular time and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":512098,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17531,16727],"news_category":[16706,14084],"gn_keywords":[18066,18432],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"Cleveland with huge victory in Detroit to take matchup lead.","video":["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\/512097"}],"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=512097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/512097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":512099,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/512097\/revisions\/512099"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/512098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512097"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=512097"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=512097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}