NBA Playoffs: Thunder and Pistons Come Out Strong in Game 1!
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🗓️ 6 May 2026
⏱️ 22 minutes
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| 0:31.8 | Pardon the interruption, but I'm Mike Wilbon. Tony is National Bike to School Day. Did you ever bike to school as a kid? |
| 0:41.3 | I'm Tony Cornheiser. No. Hadn't been invented yet. No. |
| 0:47.9 | My school was too close. 200 yards walking school, no bike. No, I had a bike. I had a schwin. I had a schwin. Yeah, I mean, I was biking to school, no bike. No, I had a bike. |
| 1:13.2 | I had a Schwinn. I had a Schwinn. Yeah, I mean, I was biking a school from about third grade on. About third grade. Wow. Yeah. Impressive. It's a long time ago, obviously. I was going to say school hadn't been invented yet, not just bikes. Welcome to PTI, boys and girls. in today's episode was Victor Wembeenjama goaltending. |
| 1:11.5 | Should A.J. Hinch have backed Framber Valdez, and Brian Windhorst |
| 1:17.7 | joins us for five good minutes. But we begin today with the NBA playoffs from last night. |
| 1:22.6 | Both home teams won. Detroit beat Cleveland and Oklahoma City beat the Lakers as they have all season. The Pistons |
| 1:28.9 | win was relatively close. The score was tied with five minutes to go. The Thunder win was not close. |
| 1:34.5 | Oklahoma City won by 18. Wilbon, which team had the more impressive win? |
| 1:40.3 | Well, Tony, this isn't really even close to me. It's Detroit. I mean, first of all, the Pistons had been struggling at home over years to just win a single playoff game at home. They got past that in the first round, yeah. But they're playing an equal in Cleveland. They're playing a rival geographically, and they're playing an equal. I mean, Cleveland's been a team that's been right there nose to nose of |
| 2:00.8 | Detroit, even though Detroit finished with the best record in the East and the regular season. |
| 2:05.6 | And so, you know, when you got to deal with some firepower that Cleveland does have with |
| 2:12.6 | Mitchell and Hardin, and your Detroit, which values preventing the other team from doing whatever it is, they do |
| 2:19.7 | best. That's what the Pistons do. They had to actually do that. And Cleveland hung in there. |
| 2:25.1 | They tied this thing. Detroit had to demonstrate some resolve and did. Detroit, which has trouble |
| 2:30.6 | scoring, got some nice scoring nights, you know, that Tobias Harris had 20 points. |
| 2:36.9 | So Duncan Robinson had 19. So when they get a second and third scorer, and it was predicated on |
| 2:42.2 | getting some turnovers that Cleveland coughed up, a lot of them by James Harden. It's still impressive |
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