{"id":4009,"date":"2014-03-11T21:56:28","date_gmt":"2014-03-12T04:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=4009"},"modified":"2014-03-11T21:56:28","modified_gmt":"2014-03-12T04:56:28","slug":"pistons-clamp-down-on-kings-in-second-half-pull-away-for-99-89-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/03\/11\/pistons-clamp-down-on-kings-in-second-half-pull-away-for-99-89-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Pistons clamp down on Kings in second half, pull away for 99 89 win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/shutterstock_150869537.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4019\" alt=\"shutterstock_150869537\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/shutterstock_150869537-300x201.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/shutterstock_150869537-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/shutterstock_150869537.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>AUBURN HILLS, Mich. &#8211; Josh Smith scored 24 points and Rodney Stuckey added 23 to lift the Detroit Pistons to a 99-89 victory over the Sacramento Kings on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Andre Drummond added 15 points and eight rebounds for Detroit, outscoring DeMarcus Cousins in a matchup of two of the NBA&#8217;s top young big men. Cousins had 13 points and 14 rebounds but shot 5 of 15 from the field.<\/p>\n<p>Detroit trailed 54-52 at halftime but outscored the Kings 20-11 in the third quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Rudy Gay scored 20 points and Isaiah Thomas added 19 points and eight assists for Sacramento.<\/p>\n<p>The Pistons snapped a three-game losing streak and pulled to within three games of Atlanta for the final playoff spot in the Eastern Conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUBURN HILLS, Mich. &#8211; Josh Smith scored 24 points and Rodney Stuckey added 23 to lift the Detroit Pistons to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":4019,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[955,956,957],"class_list":["post-4009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-bkn","tag-kings","tag-pistons","mauthors-noah-trister","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}