Cade Cunningham led the Pistons over the Celtics in the first half of our Peacock doubleheader.
What we know about Monday night’s games:
- The Pistons defeated the Celtics 112-105 in Boston behind Cade Cunningham (32 pts, 10 ast).
- Now, it’s Rockets-Nuggets (9:30 ET) on Peacock, featuring two of the top offenses in the league.
- The Grizzlies, 7-3 in their last 10, seek to continue their winning ways against the Clippers (10:30 ET).
11:16 PM / DECEMBER 15, 2025
Flagg on fire
121-113 Dallas with 4:12 to go in the fourth quarter.
34 FOR COOPER FLAGG.
Dallas in front midway through the 4th quarter! pic.twitter.com/ILMFR1ZvHh
— NBA (@NBA) December 16, 2025
10:57 PM / DECEMBER 15, 2025
The Joker’s vision
Nikola Jokic (12 pts, 6 reb, 6 ast, 2 blk) delivers the dart for Denver. Nuggets up 64-60 with 9:15 to go in the third.
Joker outlet pass ➡️ Cam Johnson slam!
Denver leads by 7 at the break on Peacock. pic.twitter.com/gvX1YGg61W
— NBA (@NBA) December 16, 2025
10:36 PM / DECEMBER 15, 2025
Raptors rock the Heat
106-96, snapping a four-game losing streak.
Brandon Ingram (28 pts) led five Raptors in double figures. Toronto shot 16-for-40 from three-point range.
Brandon Ingram’s buckets against the Miami Heat.
10:26 PM / DECEMBER 15, 2025
Mavericks up at the half
75-71 over the Jazz.
Cooper Flagg has 24 points for Dallas — his highest scoring half as a pro.
Cooper passes Tracy McGrady for the third-most points by a player before his 19th birthday 🔥 Only LeBron James and Kobe Bryant have scored more before turning 19.
📺: KFAA pic.twitter.com/1IhFpx3plZ
— Dallas Mavericks (@dallasmavs) December 16, 2025
10:09 PM / DECEMBER 15, 2025
Amen rises up
30-24 Rockets after the first, in part to a remarkable lob from Alperen Sengun (10 pts, 2 reb, 3 ast) to Amen Thompson.
Amen Thompson climbs the ladder 👀
HOU with the lead in the 1Q… watch here: https://t.co/1satrYOOCC pic.twitter.com/xplWreYUUH
— NBA (@NBA) December 16, 2025
Kevin Durant put up 10 points of his own as well.
Lethal in the midrange… that’s KD for you 👏
He scored 10 in the opening frame on Peacock!
Watch here: https://t.co/1satrYOOCC pic.twitter.com/s6HQCnlods
— NBA (@NBA) December 16, 2025
9:46 PM / DECEMBER 15, 2025
Pistons win on the road in Boston
112-105 Detroit, taking their record to 21-5.
Cade Cunningham (32 pts, 10 ast) kept it under control all night, out-dueling Jaylen Brown (34 pts) and Derrick White (31 pts, 5 3PM).
CLUTCH CADE BUCKET FOR 32.
HE PUTS DETROIT UP 5 WITH 1:13 LEFT. pic.twitter.com/N7vWvOAPwj
— NBA (@NBA) December 16, 2025
9:31 PM / DECEMBER 15, 2025
Ace Bailey shows off the springs
What a dunk from the rook.
29-27 Jazz with 3:55 to go in Utah.
ACE BAILEY OFF HIS OWN MISS 😳✈️
UTA hosting DAL on NBA League Pass… tap to watch: https://t.co/ZQasTTyJGx pic.twitter.com/w4PgWuH1R1
— NBA (@NBA) December 16, 2025
9:28 PM / DECEMBER 15, 2025
Raptors and Heat going at it
83-79 Toronto with 9:50 to go in the fourth.
Collin Murray-Boyles shows off the athleticism with the swat here.
CMB WITH THE SWAT 🖐️ pic.twitter.com/5yodmrJieH
— Toronto Raptors (@Raptors) December 16, 2025
9:12 PM / DECEMBER 15, 2025
Bam with the english
65-65 all in the third, thanks in part to this stylish finish from Bam Adebayo (16 pts, 9 reb).
Bam Adebayo from a TOUGH angle 😱
MIA leads in the 3Q… tap to watch: https://t.co/iJ4BYfx3kK pic.twitter.com/RGlIDD7CKJ
— NBA (@NBA) December 16, 2025
8:44 PM / DECEMBER 15, 2025
What can Brown do for you?
Jaylen — the subject of tonight’s profile — can get buckets. Pistons and Celtics are dueling in another hard-fought affair.
It’s 66-65 Boston with 5:40 to go in the third.
JB AND-1!
He’s got 20 as Boston leads Detroit in the 3Q. pic.twitter.com/eFCEva58Bi
— NBA (@NBA) December 16, 2025
8:34 PM / DECEMBER 15, 2025
Brandon Ingram going off early
The Notorious B.I.3. (18 pts) is delivering the opposite of peace to the Heat.
43-43 with 1:50 to go in the second quarter in Miami.
NOTORIOUS B.I.3 😮💨 pic.twitter.com/KsShZm3VOX
— Toronto Raptors (@Raptors) December 16, 2025
8:02 PM / DECEMBER 15, 2025
Pistons power back
43-43 in Boston after a 16-4 Pistons run. Cade Cunningham (11 pts, 7 ast) is running the show and looking comfortable, especially after Jordan Walsh hit the bench with foul trouble.
Cade Cunningham just makes it look EASY.
He spins his way inside for 2! pic.twitter.com/x6BElq0MYC
— NBA (@NBA) December 16, 2025
Stocks are up for the Wolf of Walsh Street 📈📈📈 pic.twitter.com/9z9ieg3dDt
— Boston Celtics (@celtics) December 16, 2025
7:54 PM / DECEMBER 15, 2025
Beef Stew shows off the muscle
Stew at the rim 💪 pic.twitter.com/xK0AyvgJ4T
— Detroit Pistons (@DetroitPistons) December 16, 2025
Some classic Detroit physical intensity from Isaiah Stewart here, as the Pistons battle back against Boston.
41-36 Celtics with 8:18 to go in the second.
7:37 PM / DECEMBER 15, 2025
Celtics go on a run
Talk about timing. It’s now 28-19 Celtics after a Hugo Gonzalez three caps a 14-0 run.
Jaylen Brown (10 pts) has had it working early. He gets 20.3 percent of his points from midrange this season — third-most in the NBA — and shows why here.
PUT IT ON EM JB ⚡️ pic.twitter.com/rTMsRGyPH2
— Boston Celtics (@celtics) December 16, 2025
7:25 PM / DECEMBER 15, 2025
Pritchard finds the range
The reigning Kia Sixth Man of the Year is hot early, but the Pistons are up 19-14 with 6:40 to go in the first quarter.
Payton Pritchard has 8 of Boston’s first 11 points!
📺 DET-BOS is LIVE on Peacock pic.twitter.com/5ziuQ8Mvqb
— NBA (@NBA) December 16, 2025
Ausar Thompson is quick, but going under the screen against Pritchard is a recipe for trouble.
6:15 PM / DECEMBER 15, 2025
Jaylen Brown ascends
Jaylen Brown’s baskets against the Detroit Pistons this season.
The energy has shifted.
Four-time All-Star Jaylen Brown is averaging career-highs in points (29.9 ppg) and assists (4.8 ast), as he steps to the fore of the Celtics offense while Jayson Tatum recovers from ACL surgery.
His efficiency has been as good as it’s ever been (49.9 FG%, tied for the best of his career) and the Celtics are thriving, rising to third in the Eastern Conference.
Brown has been a rock. He’s part of all five lineups that have logged 18+ minutes for Boston this season, providing playmaking, athleticism, defense and devastating isolation scoring, and second in the league in usage percentage (35.3).
JB isolates on 5.4 possessions per game, averaging 5.3 points per game on the action. No other player isolates on more than three plays per game or averages more than 4.5 points on them.
If the Celtics offense is struggling, the ball will find Jaylen.
He’s a workhorse (fifth in total points with 699), boasting a versatile offensive game. Jaylen’s comfortable getting to the rim, rocking into his rhythm for a midrange jumper (11.0 ppg on pull-up jumpers, third in the NBA), or stepping back to launch from deep (36.3 percent from three).
His teammates find open shots playing off him. Nine of the top 21 players in the league in scoring on spot-up shots are his fellow Celtics.
Tatum and Brown regularly played one-on-one as young players. That experience is evident in his game today, as are his years of playoff basketball experience.
“He never wavers in the poise or the mindset that he has,” Coach Joe Mazzulla said earlier this season. “He does a great job of that regardless of how it’s going.”
5:15 PM / DECEMBER 15, 2025
Welcome to a five-game night in the NBA!
Cade Cunningham and the Detroit Pistons take on the Boston Celtics in the opening half of tonight’s doubleheader on Peacock.
We’ve got a dynamite doubleheader tonight on Peacock, featuring Pistons-Celtics (7 ET) and Rockets-Nuggets (9:30 ET), highlighting the action.
In the national TV opener, the Pistons will travel to Boston seeking revenge after the Celtics snapped their franchise record-tying 13 game winning streak 117-114 on Nov. 26, en route to a 7-3 record in their last 10 games.
Detroit, sitting at the top of the East with a 20-5 record, is also 7-3 in their last 10. They defeated the Celtics 119-113 on Oct. 26.
Cade Cunningham (26.9 ppg, 6.1 reb, 9.1 ast, 1.5 stl) and Jaylen Brown (29.9 ppg, 6.1 reb, 4.8 ast) are sitting at No. 4 and No. 5, respectively, in the latest Kia MVP Ladder.
Who will win in this clash of traditional Eastern Conference powers?
In the nightcap, the West’s top two-ranked offenses face off (124.4 offense rating for Denver vs 121.4 for Houston).
The Nuggets are running the best assist-to-turnover ratio (2.2) and effective field goal percentage in the league (59.4), while the Rockets have the league-leading offensive rebounding percentage (41.5), as well as the second-best defensive rating (111.0).
Denver took the initial clash between these Western contenders 112-109 Nov. 22 behind 34 points, 10 rebounds and 9 assists from Nikola Jokić.
Jokić’s averaged 21.1 points, 11 rebounds and 7 assists against the Rockets in his career, logging the second-fewest minutes per game (29.1) and grabbing the second-most offensive rebounds (3.3) against Houston.
He’ll battle rising star Alperen Sengun (23.0 ppg, 9.4 reb, 7.0 ast) and Steven Adams (9.1 reb) in the pivot tonight on Peacock.
Here’s the complete slate:
