With 100 seconds left on a milestone night, Cade Cunningham had the ball, and the Pistons were feeling the comeback. They had pulled within three. The crowd was on its feet. Cade dribbled, spun and absolutely lost his defender, OG Anunoby, who hit the deck. Cade went up, destiny in his hands … but lost the ball in a bang against New York’s Karl Anthony Towns.
The rock came the other way, and Jalen Brunson, Cade’s parallel superstar in a Knicks uniform, drove between two Detroit defenders for a layup.
Destiny swings.
The Pistons would still claw, still fight, right to the end, but the game, and the win, remained just out of reach.