{"id":73505,"date":"2026-05-14T07:04:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T12:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/14\/nba-playoffs-no-1-seed-pistons-one-game-from-elimination-after-cavs-roar-back-to-win-in-ot\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T07:04:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T12:04:23","slug":"nba-playoffs-no-1-seed-pistons-one-game-from-elimination-after-cavs-roar-back-to-win-in-ot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/14\/nba-playoffs-no-1-seed-pistons-one-game-from-elimination-after-cavs-roar-back-to-win-in-ot\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA playoffs: No 1 seed Pistons one game from elimination after Cavs roar back to win in OT"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Cleveland lead best-of-seven series 3-2<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Detroit had led by nine with four minutes left<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>James Harden scored 30 points and Donovan Mitchell added 21, including seven in overtime, as the visiting Cleveland Cavaliers rallied to beat the Detroit Pistons 117-113 on Wednesday to take a 3-2 lead in the Eastern Conference semi-finals.<\/p>\n<p>The result leaves Detroit, the No 1 seeds in the East, just one defeat from elimination.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/may\/14\/nba-playoffs-no-1-seed-pistons-one-game-from-elimination-after-cavs-roar-back-to-win-in-ot\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cleveland lead best-of-seven series 3-2 Detroit had led by nine with four minutes left James Harden scored 30 points and Donovan Mitchell added 21, including seven in overtime, as the visiting Cleveland Cavaliers rallied to beat the Detroit Pistons 117-113 on Wednesday to take a 3-2 lead in the Eastern Conference semi-finals. The result leaves &#8230; <a title=\"NBA playoffs: No 1 seed Pistons one game from elimination after Cavs roar back to win in OT\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/14\/nba-playoffs-no-1-seed-pistons-one-game-from-elimination-after-cavs-roar-back-to-win-in-ot\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about NBA playoffs: No 1 seed Pistons one game from elimination after Cavs roar back to win in OT\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}