For the second time this season, the Detroit Pistons paid a visit to the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden. Both times, the Pistons found positive results. Cade Cunningham, specifically, improved his NBA All-Star campaign in both outings.

Those were the figures the Detroit Pistons pulled in last year. It was a basketball abomination. While some took the opportunity to proclaim Cade Cunningham wasn't that guy, smarter people saw through this charade.

NEW YORK -- Cade Cunningham scored 36 points, Malik Beasley had 22 and a pair of clutch 3-pointers in the final 40 seconds and the surging Detroit Pistons beat New York 124-119 on Monday night, their second straight victory over the Knicks after dropping the previous 16 meetings.