The Detroit Pistons hosted the Brooklyn Nets on Sunday night and there wasn't much of an expectation that things would be particularly competitive. Detroit sits comfortably atop the Eastern Conference and Brooklyn is already crossing its fingers that ping-pong balls favor it in the lottery. But no one, and we mean absolutely no one, expects an NBA game to end with a 53-point gulf, which is what the Pistons built en route to a 130-77 blowout victory.
Jalen Duren celebrated being named as an All-Star reserve by scoring 21 points and grabbing 10 rebounds while Cade Cunningham scored 18 and dished out 12 assists. There were no signs of slowing down for 48 minutes as Detroit entered the fourth quarter with an already enormous 100-62 edge and proceeded to make things worse from there.
