After six points Loss for Brooklyn windowthe Detroit Bestone He had just identified A sign of successive losses In one season in the history of the American Professional League, it fell 27 in a row. It was on December 26, 2023. Inside the Treasury Chamber, the mood was calm and calm – a continuous threat to drop out to a good season to become the worst in the history of the American Professional League. Kadi CaninghamThe 22 -year -old cornerstone occurs, first.
“Do not jump from the boat,” he said. “At the present time it is the easiest time to stand up to benefit, but we need to continue to rely on each other and continue to push each other and hold each other more than ever now.”
Perhaps there is no player in the league knows best. After choosing No. 1 in the US Professional League draft for the year 2021, he had held a miserable campaign of 23 wins, which was 17 wins imposed the following year, and was now in the middle of a season that was breaking all the wrong records.
After bearing the worst record in the history of the concession last season, on 14-68, Cunningham holds that low moments with him leading the Miraculous piston this year, which led to a calm of what may remain in the conversation of a bust as a heavy favorite to win a player in the American Professional League.
“There was a time when I did not give them a lot to think,” Keningham told ESPN. “But I felt support from the first day of being here, and more than anything that I wanted to dye at my end of the deal.”
Detroit is 42-32 this season, which enters the confrontation on Wednesday with the pioneering West Oklahoma City Thunder (9:30 pm EST time on ESPN), which makes Pistons the first team in the history of the American Professional League to achieve three times its total victory from the previous season, with the exception of two seasons lock in 1998-1999 and 2011-12, for each ESPN research.
Cunningham is the average of its highest professional levels in points for each game (25.7), and helps each game (9.2) and the field target ratio (46.2 %). He has a chance to become the first Pistons player with an average of 25 points for each game in one season since Jerry Stackhouse in 2000-01, when the record for the privilege was scored by 29.8 PPG.
“I don’t think people give him full respect,” New Orleans P it forward Zion WilliamsonChoose another one number 1, tell ESPN. “In my opinion, he is a player in the American Professional League this year. He was doing something, but from watching Cade from AFAR and my few interactions with him, he is someone who will allow his work to talk to him.”
This work can make Cunningham the third player in the history of Pistons to nine or more passes for each game in one season, and joins ISIAH Thomas (Six times) and Kevin Porter (13.4 in 1978-1979), and the first to get a 25-9 season.
His goals are much higher, however.
“I think I can be the best basketball player in the world. I think I am on my way,” Keningham said. “I want people to understand this, and this is what I am working on to show people every time I play.”
With five seconds It remains in the organization, Detroit Lyons All-PRO reception Amon-RA St. Brown His phone pulled, hoping to pick up the scene from his seat at his stadium in Miami. It was March 19. The pistons and heat 113-113 have been linked.
When pressed on the record, he told his girlfriend, Brooklyn Adams, and his teammate on the Lions team Craig ReynoldsHow did Bestone’s victory never see?
Veteran Tim Hardaway Junior. At the Football Stadium to Caningham in the low seconds, and with the outbreak of Caningham, 25 feet 3 feet to give Pistons to give Unlikely victory In the bell.
Cunningham raised his 2 Pistons shirt in front of the Kaseya Center crowd in joy.
He had finished three times, with 25 points, 12 rebounds and 11 assists in victory.
Previous pistons twice all stars André DramundNow with Philadelphia 76ersPublishing the viral image of Koningham.
Drummond is still roots of a petroit. He was part of the latest Pistons to reach the qualifiers in 2018-19, and he said he wanted to retire one day in Detroit.
“It is surprising that we see Detroit Wayne. People are already looking at me mad to spread or admire things in Detroit, but, like Detroit in my house,” Dramund told ESPN. “To see the success of a city with the team, I feel that I am part of that, although I am not playing with the team.”
Saint Brown, choosing the fourth round in 2021 The American Football Association draftKeningham’s ascension. Lions rose from a 3-13-1 season in 2021 to the 15th season in 2024.
“It is clear, it is a different sport, but we have a kind of journey, in terms of the success of the team. I feel exactly how you feel how you feel,” Saint Brown said.
“I am pleased to see it and be able to sit and see them come from anything to be a strong team at the present time. I see myself and black a lot.”
It didn’t take a long time until Cunningham beat the Detroit fan base that has long been disappeared. In Night Night, Cartier sunglasses, known all over the city as “amateurs”, which is a distinctive fashion piece in the city.
He learned about the city’s culture through the famous rapper such as 42 Dugg, Sada Baby and Babyface Ray, as well as the underground movie scene and through Tubi TV McGRAW Ave. When the league announced that Cunningham was appointed in his first professional league match in January, 42 Dugg was one of the first news.
“I feel that Cadi suits culture with all of us young and arriving,” 42 Doug said. “It is more suitable for us.
Cunningham has nine three points this season, the third in the history of Pistons behind the legend of the American Professional League Grant Hill, which scored 13 in 1996-1997 and 10 in 1995-1996.
No other player in the history of Pestones had five in one season.
Caningham’s style is often compared to Hill before he was robbed of injuries from the peak.
Hill, Managing Director of the National Men’s Team in the United States, does not mind hearing his name linked to an emerging star like Caningham, who sees him as a strong candidate for the Fiba World Cup and the Olympics during the next round.
“I think there are some similarities in terms of trying to control the game and try to influence the game in several different ways,” Hill told ESPN.
“He believes the game is very high, and it has this amazing feeling and amazing basketball instincts, and I feel that these were some of the similarities that we brought to the game.”
Ask those about Caningham for the quality of his game, and the response is almost international. It is the driving he made when installing losses, and now, too, when the victories do the same.
“You rarely find a man who can grow, develop and not leave people behind,” said Bestones coach, before winning Detroit 123-103 against Washington on March 11.
Consider: Cunningham has the third points created this season on tablets (1,162), behind the MVP front filter Gilgos Alexander tea and New York Nix Protect Gallin BronsonAccording to the second spectrum.
He helped 75 throws to his teammate Malik Pesley And 84 diving to the Bestone Center Gallin DoreenBoth in the American Professional League, respectively, by any mixture of passers -by, spectrum per second.
This is the reason that the owner of Bestone Tom Gors has agreed to sign a five -year value of Koningham in the past, a deal that faced questions in the league.
“What I saw in Kadi is not something you just see on the field. He embraced adversity; he did not put him on anyone else. He took his own accountability,” Gorms told ESPN. “Part of the reason why he did not close.
“We knew that we had to change some things and sometimes learn more in difficult times … some war is fighting with each other and see how someone behaved, and I thought he dealt with them well in many ways. So I was not flashing, frankly.”
During four seasons, Cunningham has already played for three different coaches: DWANE CASY and Mony Williams and now bickestaff.
He was absent from most of his second season with a break in his left leg and has not yet tested the American Professional League qualifiers, but he says he is enjoying the largest amount of his career at the head of Detroit.
“The victory. I think this is the main difference in reality,” Knngham said. “It is a lot of fun games. It is not interesting to lose at all, so playing in purposeful games and putting ourselves constantly in a position allows him to win was a lot of fun this year.”
“It will only continue to improve. This may be the worst version of it. We will see,” Doreen said.
