Pistons show resilience and see signs of a budding closer in Cunningham in narrow loss to Nets — nba.com

After a murderer’s row of opponents – NBA title favorite Brooklyn, reigning NBA champion Milwaukee, title aspirant Philadelphia and Brooklyn again – over a six-day span, playing a back to back, the Pistons got to the fourth quarter Friday wheezing and trailing by 16 points. Eight minutes later, they’d cut it to one, had Little Caesars Arena at full throat and were on the cusp of witnessing Cade Cunningham flowering into a late-game savant. Then Kevin Durant reminded everyone that such a metamorphosis is measured in seasons, not days.

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