Cunningham's Return Ignites Pistons' Finals Hopes, Thunder's All-Time Conversation & Adam Silver's Tanking Setback

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🗓️ 9 April 2026

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Cade Cunningham shocks the NBA with a triumphant return, powering the Detroit Pistons past the Milwaukee Bucks and reigniting the conversation about Detroit’s legitimacy as a Finals contender. Are the Pistons primed to break through as the East’s top seed, or will playoff inexperience and shooting woes hold them back? Wes Goldberg , Matt Moore and Haize dissect Cunningham’s impact, Detroit’s offensive strategy, and the Pistons’ postseason outlook.

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0:00.0	Coming up on Locked-on NBA Daily.
0:04.0	Cade Cunningham made his surprising return to the Pistons last night and showed why they need to be taken seriously as contenders to make the finals.
0:11.0	Meanwhile, Adam Silver's plan to stop tanking hits a speed bump, and the Celtics and Nix get set for the ultimate test before the playoffs.
0:18.0	Locked on NBA Daily starts now.
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0:58.0	Hello and welcome back to Locked on NBA Daily. I'm Wes Goldberg. That's Matt Moran Hayes. We've got a great show for you today. We've got Make It Take It coming up in the next segment. Plus, we're going to take a look at one of the most important tanking games of the season. But we're going to start in Detroit where Kid Cunningham had a double double in return to the Pistons last night against the Bucks. Cunningham, who had been sidelined since March 19th because of a collapse lung, finished with 13 points and 10 assists in 26 minutes. In the Pistons win, here's Kukalil,
1:03.4	with more on how the Pistons Starr looked in his first game back. But Kay Cunningham,
1:08.4	he made his return. He made his return in this game after what, after suffering an injury that I think most of
1:15.8	believed he would be out until game one of the playoffs.
1:20.0	But he's made his return with three games left in the regular season.
1:23.3	And I did not see that coming.
1:25.7	They were expecting him to be out until game one to the playoffs.
1:28.8	That was the expectation.
1:30.4	So for him 22 days later to now make his comeback during the regular season is absolutely crazy.
1:37.3	And he looked about as good as you could have possibly expected someone who missed that amount of time due to a collapse long,
1:45.1	having to get his playing shape, get his stamina back in order, looked about as good as you
1:51.1	possibly could have expected.
1:54.1	The Pistons are the number one seat in the east.
1:56.1	They have been for most of the season.
1:57.8	They were playing well without Cade, and now they get Cade back with a couple of games to ramp
2:01.3	up to the playoffs.
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