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DETROIT — Basket by basket, the Sacramento Kings chipped away at the Pistons’ second-largest lead of the season. The Pistons, playing without Cade Cunningham, led by 20 points in the first quarter and maintained enough distance to hold a 19-point advantage midway in the second. However, that was until they had another classic meltdown — one full of bad turnovers and poor shotmaking. Detroit committed five of their 21 turnovers in less than two minutes and had a putrid second-quarter shooting performance that put them in three-point hole going into halftime. Sacramento, the fifth-best team in t…

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