Detroit Pistons face final chance to avoid carrying NBA-record losing streak into 2024
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The Detroit Pistons will host the Toronto Raptors on Saturday with much more than a regular season NBA game on the line. A misfire in Detroit's Little Caesars Arena will stack a 29th consecutive loss on the Pistons' record, ending 2023 in a unparalleled slump for an NBA franchise.
On Thursday, the Pistons matched the league record of 28 consecutive losses that was set by the Philadelphia 76ers in 2015. The Pistons lost in heartbreaking fashion, 128-122 in overtime to the Boston Celtics, who hold the NBA's best record. Second year guard Cade Cunningham scored a team-high 31 points.
"We're on the same level as all these teams were playing against," said Cunningham, according to the Associated Press, whom Detroit selected with the first overall pick in the 2021 NBA draft. "There's no team that I've ever come across in the NBA where I felt like I was going into a slaughterhouse."
