For the first time in a decade, the Detroit Pistons have won seven straight games after a 106-97 win over the Los Angeles Clippers on Monday.
This is not just a recent run. Dating back more than two months, Detroit has won 21 of its last 30 games and is currently just one game back from a top-four playoff seed in the Eastern Conference.
At 32-26, the Pistons are comfortably the No. 6 seed with a four-game lead on No. 7 Orlando. At this point last season, the Pistons had eight wins. That 24-win turnaround is by far the biggest in the league. Nobody else is even close.

This is remarkable stuff. Sure, the Pistons added some offseason pieces that look great in hindsight (Malik Beasley, Tobias Harris and Tim Hardaway Jr.), but nobody was giving one ounce of thought to those guys, or this team, when the season started.

Cade Cunningham has been sensational, averaging 25 points, 9 assists, and 6 rebounds for the season, establishing him as one of the leading candidates for the All-NBA selection.
The Pistons’ winning streak speaks to their growth and development as a team, and Cunningham’s performance is at the forefront of this resurgence.