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Cade Cunningham banks in game-winning 3 to push Pistons past Heat

Heading into the 2024-25 NBA season, no team was slated for fewer nationally televised contests than the Pistons, meaning that most of Detroit’s remarkable transformation from the NBA’s worst team into a bona fide playoff squad has unfolded under cover of comparative darkness. So when the powers that be decided to shuffle the deck and flex Detroit’s Wednesday meeting with the Miami Heat up to ESPN’s prime-time slate, it gave All-Star guard Cade Cunningham and his crew an opportunity to make an impression on an audience that might not have been familiar with their work.