{"id":466624,"date":"2025-12-23T12:55:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T12:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/466624\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T12:55:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T12:55:13","slug":"duren-scores-26-and-pistons-beat-trail-blazers-after-blowing-21-point-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/466624\/","title":{"rendered":"Duren scores 26 and Pistons beat Trail Blazers after blowing 21-point lead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jalen Duren had 26 points and 10 rebounds as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/detroit\/sports\/pistons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Detroit Piston<\/a>s held off the Portland Trail Blazers 110-102 on Monday night after blowing a 21-point lead.<\/p>\n<p>Ausar Thompson added 18 points and 12 rebounds for the Eastern Conference-leading Pistons (23-6). Duncan Robinson scored 15 and Cade Cunningham had 14 before fouling out early in the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Shaedon Sharpe led the Trail Blazers (12-17) with 25 points on 11-of-21 shooting but also committed eight turnovers. Deni Avdija added 18 points, nine assists and eight rebounds. <\/p>\n<p>Donovan Clingan had 17 points, 10 rebounds and three blocks for Portland. Sidy Cissoko scored 16 off the bench.<\/p>\n<p>After trailing by 21 late in the third quarter, Portland was still down nine when Cunningham fouled out with 8:32 remaining. But the Blazers outscored the Pistons 12-2 over the next 4:20 to take a one-point lead. Detroit then closed with an 11-2 run to put away the game.<\/p>\n<p>Pistons: Visit the Sacramento Kings on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Trail Blazers: Host the Orlando Magic on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jalen Duren had 26 points and 10 rebounds as the Detroit Pistons held off the Portland Trail Blazers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":466625,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[1339,3129,1260,23077,3133,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-466624","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-detroit-pistons","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-portland","12":"tag-portland-trail-blazers","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115768991747342380","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}