{"id":1164704,"date":"2026-02-24T01:41:53","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T06:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/?p=1164704"},"modified":"2026-02-24T01:41:53","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T06:41:53","slug":"tempers-flare-in-1st-half-of-spurs-pistons-game-in-a-matchup-of-2-of-nbas-top-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/tempers-flare-in-1st-half-of-spurs-pistons-game-in-a-matchup-of-2-of-nbas-top-teams\/","title":{"rendered":"Tempers flare in 1st half of Spurs-Pistons game in a matchup of 2 of NBA&#039;s top teams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DETROIT (AP) \u2014 Tempers flared in the first half of the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/san-antonio-spurs\">San Antonio<\/a> Spurs- <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/detroit-pistons\">Detroit<\/a> Pistons game, a matchup of two of the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba\">NBA&#8217;s top teams<\/a> on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>Pistons star <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/cade-cunningham\">Cade Cunningham<\/a> was called for an offensive foul after extending his arms and knocking Spurs guard Stephon Castle down on the court.<\/p>\n<p>Spurs forward Keldon Johnson responded by pushing Cunningham and Pistons center Jalen Duren, who was recently suspended by the league, pointed his right finger in Johnson&#8217;s face.<\/p>\n<p>After a review, Johnson and Duren were called for technical fouls in the second quarter of the closely contested game.<\/p>\n<p>The NBA suspended center Isaiah Stewart for seven games earlier this month after he left the bench during a fight in Detroit&#8217;s game at Charlotte, and he was still serving the suspension during San Antonio&#8217;s visit. Duren was forced to sit for two games for initiating the altercation.<\/p>\n<p>The Pistons have the best record in the Eastern Conference and the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/victor-wembanyama\">Victor Wembanyama<\/a> -led Spurs trail only the defending champion Oklahoma City Thunder in the Western Conference.<\/p>\n<p>Detroit hosts Oklahoma City on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP NBA: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/NBA\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/NBA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/tempers-flare-1st-half-spurs-014153291.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/tempers-flare-1st-half-spurs-014153291.html<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DETROIT (AP) \u2014 Tempers flared in the first half of the San Antonio Spurs- Detroit Pistons game, a matchup of two of the NBA&#8217;s top&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1164704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1164704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1164704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1164704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1164704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}