{"id":491057,"date":"2026-04-03T08:54:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T06:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=491057"},"modified":"2026-04-03T08:54:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T06:54:12","slug":"cade-cunningham-still-out-collapsed-lung-keeps-pistons-star-sidelined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/cade-cunningham-still-out-collapsed-lung-keeps-pistons-star-sidelined\/","title":{"rendered":"Cade Cunningham still out: collapsed lung keeps Pistons star sidelined"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"2007\" data-end=\"2357\"><strong data-start=\"2007\" data-end=\"2026\">Cade Cunningham<\/strong> will remain sidelined for at least another week as he continues to recover from a <strong data-start=\"2109\" data-end=\"2132\">collapsed left lung<\/strong>. Detroit announced that the All-Star guard is progressing under the supervision of doctors and the team\u2019s medical and performance staff, with a fresh re-evaluation scheduled in one week.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2359\" data-end=\"2691\">The <strong data-start=\"2363\" data-end=\"2374\">Pistons<\/strong> star has not played since March 19, though he has recently rejoined the team on the bench in street clothes during home games. Coach <strong data-start=\"2508\" data-end=\"2528\">J.B. Bickerstaff<\/strong> said it has been good to see Cunningham around the group again, adding that he is moving forward day by day in his recovery.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2693\" data-end=\"3167\">Cunningham is averaging <strong data-start=\"2717\" data-end=\"2757\">24.5 points and 9.9 assists per game<\/strong>, underlining the value of his season for Detroit. The absence also puts his postseason award eligibility in serious doubt: he has appeared in 61 games, and with only five regular-season contests left after Thursday\u2019s win over Minnesota, the path to the 65-game threshold is now extremely narrow. Detroit has already clinched the Central Division and still leads the East.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Detroit Pistons guard will miss at least another week while recovering from a collapsed left lung<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":372595,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[179],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-491057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","typology-injury"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/Detroit-Pistons.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491057"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=491057"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=491057"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=491057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}