Cleveland Cavaliers @ Detroit Pistons

32-24, 12-16 Away

Final

	1	2	3	4	T
Cavaliers CLE	17	16	19	26	78
Pistons DET	25	19	23	23	90

Detroit PistonsPistonsDET

46-9, 26-2 Home

Cleveland Cavaliers

starters
Drew GoodenD. Gooden
LeBron JamesL. James
Zydrunas IlgauskasZ. Ilgauskas
Eric SnowE. Snow
Sasha PavlovicS. Pavlovic
bench
Donyell MarshallD. Marshall
Ira NewbleI. Newble
Luke JacksonL. Jackson
Stephen GrahamS. Graham
Anderson VarejaoA. Varejao
Martynas AndriuskeviciusM. Andriuskevicius
Damon JonesD. Jones
Larry HughesL. Hughes
Ronald MurrayR. Murray
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
26	7	3-5	0-0	1-1	5	0	4	0	0	0	5	2	0
38	22	9-20	2-3	2-3	9	7	3	0	0	1	8	3	0
30	15	5-13	0-0	5-6	9	1	2	1	0	4	5	4	0
28	5	2-4	0-0	1-2	3	2	4	1	0	1	2	4	0
17	2	1-6	0-2	0-0	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	0
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
26	5	2-6	1-4	0-0	5	0	1	0	1	1	4	2	0
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	4	2-2	0-0	0-1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
12	1	0-0	0-0	1-4	2	0	1	0	1	1	1	3	0
2	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	2	0	0	1	0	0	2	0	0
23	0	0-3	0-3	0-0	2	3	1	0	0	0	2	1	0
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
36	17	7-13	0-2	3-6	1	1	4	3	0	0	1	2	0
	78	31-72	3-14	13-23	40	14	20	6	2	8	32	22
		43%	21%	57%

Detroit Pistons

starters
Rasheed WallaceR. Wallace
Ben WallaceB. Wallace
Tayshaun PrinceT. Prince
Chauncey BillupsC. Billups
Richard HamiltonR. Hamilton
bench
Dale DavisD. Davis
Antonio McDyessA. McDyess
Jason MaxiellJ. Maxiell
Amir JohnsonA. Johnson
Kelvin CatoK. Cato
Lindsey HunterL. Hunter
Maurice EvansM. Evans
Carlos DelfinoC. Delfino
Alex AckerA. Acker
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
30	15	7-19	1-6	0-0	5	0	0	2	0	0	5	4	0
37	11	5-7	0-0	1-2	19	3	2	4	5	7	12	3	0
35	9	4-9	1-2	0-0	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	0	0
35	21	6-9	1-3	8-9	3	8	1	2	0	0	3	3	0
33	18	8-19	1-2	1-2	6	7	2	1	0	1	5	1	0
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
10	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	5	1	0	0	2	1	4	1	0
17	4	1-3	0-0	2-4	2	0	0	0	1	1	1	2	0
2	0	0-1	0-0	0-0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
11	4	2-4	0-2	0-0	1	1	2	2	0	0	1	0	0
20	6	2-5	0-2	2-2	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
9	0	0-3	0-2	0-0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0
2	2	1-1	0-0	0-0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0
	90	36-80	4-19	14-19	44	23	12	12	9	11	33	16
		45%	21%	74%

+/- denotes team's net points while the player is on the court

Regular Season Series

Series tied 1-1

Pistons
84
Cavaliers
97

Game 1

31/12

Cavaliers
78
Pistons
90

Game 2

26/2

Pistons
84
Cavaliers
72

Game 3

28/2

Cavaliers
73
Pistons
96

Game 4

13/4

The Palace of Auburn Hills

5:00 PM, 26 February 2006

Auburn Hills, MI

Attendance: 22,076

Referees:
Joe Crawford
Scott Wall
Gary Zielinski

Team	W	L	PCT	GB	STRK
Detroit	24	7	.774	-	L1
Cleveland	17	16	.515	8	L2
Chicago	15	16	.484	9	L1
Milwaukee	13	19	.406	11.5	W1
Indiana	6	26	.188	18.5	L8

Milwaukee visits Charlotte for conference showdown

Milwaukee Bucks (13-19, 11th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Charlotte Hornets (11-20, 12th in the Eastern Conference)

Cleveland faces San Antonio on 3-game road slide

Cleveland Cavaliers (17-16, eighth in the Eastern Conference) vs. San Antonio Spurs (23-8, second in the Western Conference)

Indiana visits Houston on 4-game road skid

Indiana Pacers (6-26, 15th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Houston Rockets (19-10, fourth in the Western Conference)

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Cleveland Cavaliers @ Detroit Pistons

Regular Season Series

Series tied 1-1

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2025-26 Central Standings

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