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NBA Sunday Roundup: Pistons Reach 3-0, Doncic Scores 52 for Lakers

Detroit beat Philadelphia to stay perfect, Luka Doncic carried a Lakers comeback in Utah with 52 points, and Oklahoma City won while Jalen Williams's status drove the search traffic. All of Sunday's finals in one place.

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NBA Sunday Roundup: Pistons Reach 3-0, Doncic Scores 52 for Lakers

Key points

  • The NBA's first Sunday of the season sorted the league into teams that have not lost and teams that have not won much sleep.
  • Cade Cunningham scored 26 points as Detroit beat Philadelphia 106-93.
  • Detroit's start is the early surprise of the East.

The NBA's first Sunday of the season sorted the league into teams that have not lost and teams that have not won much sleep. Detroit is 3-0. Memphis is unbeaten. Luka Doncic scored 52 points in a comeback win for the Lakers. And Oklahoma City won again while the search traffic followed an injury from the night before.

Pistons 106, 76ers 93: Detroit stays perfect

Cade Cunningham scored 26 points as Detroit beat Philadelphia 106-93. The Pistons are 3-0. The 76ers took their first loss and stand at 3-1. A note of care for anyone checking their memory: the score reverses Saturday's meeting between the same teams in an earlier roundup, so the fixture matters here. Sunday's game was Detroit's, at home in the standings and on the scoreboard.

Detroit's start is the early surprise of the East. Three games is a small sample, but a young team that defends and gets 26 from its lead guard is not a fluke shape. It is a plan working on schedule.

Doncic 52: Lakers 132, Jazz 123

Luka Doncic scored 52 points as the Los Angeles Lakers came back to beat the Utah Jazz 132-123 in Salt Lake City. Fifty-point games in October still stop a Sunday. Doncic carried the comeback himself, and the Lakers leave Utah with the kind of win that sets a locker room's temperature for a week.

Thunder 108, Clippers 101: the win and the worry

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 34 as Oklahoma City beat the Los Angeles Clippers 108-101. The win is not the whole story for the Thunder. Jalen Williams was stretchered off in Saturday's meeting between these teams, and his status became one of the most searched questions in American sport on Monday, with more than 500,000 searches tracked in the Denver snapshot of trending data. No diagnosis is stated here, because none has been confirmed in the reporting this roundup uses. The follow that matters is simple: when Oklahoma City names a timeline, this story updates.

The rest of Sunday

Ty Jerome scored 31 as Memphis beat Sacramento 123-112 to stay unbeaten. Anthony Edwards scored 26 in Minnesota's 117-94 win over Toronto. Franz Wagner scored 23 as Orlando beat New York 111-102, a game the Knicks will remember for Jalen Suggs leaving with a knee injury. Tyrese Haliburton scored 24 as Indiana beat Brooklyn 136-109 at Barclays Center.

What it means

Three days into the season, the standings are gossip. The shapes are not. Detroit's defense, Memphis's depth scoring and Oklahoma City's poise all look repeatable. The injury list is the counterweight: Suggs's knee for Orlando and Williams's status for Oklahoma City are now the two medical files the East and West will check every morning.

Key numbers

  • 3-0: Detroit's start after beating Philadelphia, which fell to 3-1
  • 52: Luka Doncic's points in the Lakers' comeback at Utah
  • 34: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander's points for Oklahoma City against the Clippers
  • 31: Ty Jerome's points for unbeaten Memphis against Sacramento

What happens next

Monday night brings Golden State at Denver, 10 p.m. Eastern on Peacock. Stephen Curry has been cleared to return for the Warriors, who visit a Nuggets team playing its home opener. It is the late game of a crowded Monday, and the one the basketball audience keeps for last.

Timeline

  1. Oct 25, 2026Sunday finals: Pistons 106, 76ers 93. Lakers 132, Jazz 123. Thunder 108, Clippers 101.
  2. Oct 26, 2026Warriors at Nuggets, 10 p.m. ET on Peacock, with Stephen Curry cleared to return.

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