NEW YORK (AFP) — Jalen Duren scored 22 points and grabbed 21 rebounds to lead the lowly Detroit Pistons to a 120-104 National Basketball Association victory over Oklahoma City on Sunday, snapping the Thunder’s five-game winning streak.
The Pistons posted just their sixth win of the season despite the absence of leading scorer Cade Cunningham, who was a late scratch to manage knee trouble.
It looked like more disappointment for Detroit, who matched a league record for futility with 28 straight defeats this season, when the Thunder jumped to a 10-point lead early in the first quarter.
But the Pistons were up by nine at halftime and never trailed in the second half.
Duren’s career-high in rebounds included nine of the Pistons’ 15 offensive boards.
“It’s cool,” Duren said of his first career 20-20 game, but he was more pleased to put up a win after the Pistons lost four of their previous five games.
That included a double-digit loss to the woeful Washington Wizards on Saturday in Cunningham’s first game back from an eight-game injury absence.
