Boston Ends Detroit's Winning Streak at 12; Celtics Trip Pistons, 117-114 at the Garden
By Teodoro Medina Reynoso
PhilBoxing.com
Fri, 28 Nov 2025
This season, the Detroit Pistons (15-2 before this game) have built the reputation together with the defending champions Oklahoma City Thunder (18-1) as the most difficult teams to beat at home or on the road.
Since the tournament began in late October, the Pistons have previously just been beaten by the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Chicago Bulls, two of the pre-season fancied teams.
Now we can add Boston to that exclusive list as the short-handed Celtics tripped the Pistons, 117-114 at their TD Garden Arena home floor yesterday.
The duo of Jalen Brown (33 points) and Derrick White (27 points) combined for 60 points to lay to waste Pistons super guard Cade Cunningham's night high 42 points. Peyton Pritchard, the only other Celtic that remained of the core of the previous season's championship team, added 16 points to help in the win.
Boston has been decimated by major injury to ace scorer Jason Tatum and departure of big men Kristaps Porzingis and Al Horford as well as defense specialist Jrue Holiday.
The magnificent trio also combined for 22 rebounds with Brown pulling down 10 boards to more than make up for the anemic showing of starting center Luka Garza who had just a rebound in 11 minutes of action.
The gritty showing of the three with ample support from forward Jordan Walsh and Baylor Scheiman and guards Sam Hauser and Josh Minott, none standing above 6-6, prevented the taller Pistons from completely overwhelming the Celtics off the boards. The burly 6-10 Jalen Duren though hauled down a night high 16 boards as the Pistons outrebounded Boston, 56-44 with Cunningham and big guard Ausar Thompson getting 8 rebounds each.
The game was close for most of the way but after a last tie score at 105-all time down to 1:55, Boston through Brown scored three straight points to take the lead, 108-105 and was never tied or overtaken till the final buzzer.
Detroit still leads the Eastern Conference with a record of 15-3, just 1.5 games ahead of the streaking Toronto Raptors (14-5). Boston improves by two games above .500 with its record of 10-8, good for the eighth place in the loaded East.
The author Teodoro Medina Reynoso is a veteran boxing radio talk show host living in the Philippines. He can be reached at teddyreynoso@yahoo.com and by phone 09215309477.
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