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Pistons visit Cavs in regular-season finale

Apr 16, 2008 - 1:39 PM Detroit (58-23) at Cleveland (45-36) 7:00 pm EDT

CLEVELAND (Ticker) - The Detroit Pistons and Cleveland Cavaliers have one last regular-season game before the playoffs start this weekend.

The Pistons will be the second seed in the Eastern Conference playoffs and face the Philadelphia 76ers (40-41) in the first round. Detroit and the Sixers split four meetings this season.

Devin Brown hit two free throws with two-tenths of a second left to help the Cavaliers clinch the fourth seed in the East with Monday's controversial 91-90 victory over the Sixers.

LeBron James scored 27 points and Zydrunas Ilgauskas added 22 for Cleveland, which will have home-court advantage in its first round series against the Washington Wizards (43-38).

In the last matchup here, James and Ilgauskas combined to score 50 points in Cleveland's 89-73 blowout victory on over Detroit on March 19. Rasheed Wallace led the Pistons with 16 points.








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    CLEVELAND 74 FINAL

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    Pistons 81, Cavaliers 72  4th - 1:00Apr 16 9:20 PM
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    Pistons 67, Cavaliers 66  4th - 5:41Apr 16 9:09 PM


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    DETROIT 56
    CLEVELAND 59 END, 3RD QTR

    Apr 16 8:50 PM


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    DETROIT 32
    CLEVELAND 39 HALFTIME

    Apr 16 8:08 PM


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    DETROIT 13
    CLEVELAND 21 END, 1ST QTR

    Apr 16 7:36 PM