The Pistons were led by Malik Beasley with 26 points and Cade Cunningham with 21 points, setting the stage for another epic battle on Friday night against Nikola Jokic and the Denver Nuggets in the Motor City.

Three-time MVP Nikola Jokic brings his Denver Nuggets to town to take on Cade Cunningham and the Pistons in a Friday night tilt that sees both teams jockeying for playoff position in their respective conferences.

With roughly five weeks remaining in the 2024-25 NBA regular season, the race for MVP is still up in the air. Barring injury, it's a two-man race between Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Nikola Jokić, but there are a lot of interesting debates to be hard for the positioning of players behind them.

There is only a little over a month left in the NBA season and the award races are beginning to heat up. Of course, most have their eyes set on the tightly contested MVP race between Nikola Jokic of the Denver Nuggets and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander of the Oklahoma City Thunder,