NEW YORK (AP) — Cade Cunningham scored 19 points to lead the Detroit Pistons to a 106-92 win over the Brooklyn Nets Sunday. Cunningham was one of six players in double figures for Detroit. Tobias Harris and Malik Beasley scored 18 points each, Jaden Ivey finished with 15, Tim Hardaway Jr.
added 14 and Jalen Duren had 13 for the Pistons. Duren finished also grabbed 17 rebounds, and Detroit has won two of its last three games. Despite a 26-point performance from Cameron Johnson, the Nets fell to 3-4.
Cam Thomas, Brooklyn’s leading scorer, scored 17 points and only had six in the fourth quarter after entering the game as the NBA’s leader in fourth-quarter scoring. Leading by six points entering the fourth quarter, the Pistons held the Nets to 15 points in the fourth quarter to earn their second win of the season. HAWKS 126, PELICANS 111 NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Jalen Johnson scored 29 points and Atlanta snapped a four-game skid with a victory over short-handed New Orleans.
Pelicans star forward Zion Williamson was scratched from the lineup with right hamstring tightness shortly before the game, leaving Brandon Ingram as the club’s only usual starter in uniform. Ingram scored 32, but it wasn’t enough to overcome a Hawks squad with six players with at least 11 points. Trae Young scored 23, while former Pelican Dyson Daniels, back from a two-game injury absence, added 16 for Atlanta.
Larry Nance Jr. scored 14 against his former team. MAVERICKS 108, MAGIC 85 DALLAS (AP) — Lu.
