The first round ended Sunday the way it lived — in double figures of drama, with two Game 7s and two franchises reclaiming something they had been missing for years. In the afternoon, Cade Cunningham posted 32 points and 12 assists and Tobias Harris erupted for a career-defining 30 points as Detroit eliminated Orlando 116-94 — becoming the 15th team in NBA history to overcome a 3-1 series deficit, one day after Philadelphia did the same against Boston. The Pistons won their first playoff series since 2008. Then, in the evening, Jarrett Allen delivered the best game of his playoff career — 22 points and 19 rebounds, with 14 points in the decisive third-quarter run — as Cleveland used a 49-21 second-and-third-quarter explosion to crush a Barnes-led Raptors comeback and win 114-102. The home team won all seven games in the series. Both winners face each other Tuesday. The first round is done.

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Detroit Pistons 116, Orlando Magic 94

The game was close for exactly one quarter. Detroit led 26-25 after the first and then Harris went on a run that settled the matter. He scored 11 consecutive Piston points in the second quarter — jumpers, corner threes, whatever Detroit needed — to push the lead from three to 11, and the Pistons took a 60-49 advantage into the half. Orlando briefly led in the second quarter before Harris' burst, but the Magic never led again.

Detroit opened the third quarter on an 11-2 run — nine of those points from Cunningham and Harris — and pushed the lead to 20. A Daniss Jenkins buzzer-beater from the corner at the end of the third quarter extended it to 83-64 entering the fourth, and Little Caesars Arena was already celebrating. Orlando made a push late — Carter hit a three, Black scored on a layup off a turnover, Banchero drew fouls — trimming the deficit briefly to 14 with 4:22 left before Detroit answered with consecutive Jenkins threes to close it out for good.

Banchero led all scorers with 38 points on 14-of-25 shooting with four threes and 9 rebounds and 6 assists — a performance that deserved a better fate — and Orlando had four players in double figures. Bane added 14 points and Carter and Black each reached double figures in a balanced if ultimately insufficient effort. But the Magic shot poorly as a collective when it mattered, and without Wagner — out for his sixth consecutive game with the calf — their bench production was minimal. Detroit simply had the better of the two second-best players in the game and that proved decisive.

Cunningham's 32 came on 10-of-18 shooting with four threes and 12 assists and 2 blocks — joining Isiah Thomas as the only players in franchise history to post 20-plus points and 10-plus assists in a Game 7. His 32.4 scoring average for the series is the best by any player whose team trailed 3-1 and came back to win. Harris' 30 points on 11-of-18 with five threes and 8 rebounds made them the first Pistons teammates to each score 30 in a playoff game since Bob Lanier and Howard Porter in 1977. Duren delivered his first double-double of the series — 15 points and 15 rebounds — and Jenkins came off the bench for 14 points on four threes including the dagger at the Q3 buzzer.

Detroit's first playoff series victory since 2008. They'll face Cleveland on Tuesday at Little Caesars Arena.

DET 116 · ORL 94

Cleveland Cavaliers 114, Toronto Raptors 102

The home team won all seven games of this series. Seven different outcomes, seven times the home building provided the decisive edge. On the night that the pattern completed itself, it was Jarrett Allen who made sure of it. Allen tied a playoff career high with 22 points — 14 of them in the decisive third quarter — and grabbed 19 rebounds, including 5 on the offensive end, in the most complete individual performance of a series in which he had largely operated in the background. His rebounding margin alone — a plus-27 differential between Cleveland and Toronto on the night — was the largest recorded in a winner-take-all game since 1987.

Toronto led 61-51 at halftime, Barnes and Barrett having combined for 21 first-half points and the Raptors looking every inch the team that had won three of the last four games in this series. Then Cleveland went on a 49-21 run over a 15-minute span across the second and third quarters, turning a 10-point deficit into a 19-point advantage. Allen had 14 points in that stretch alone — posting up, drawing fouls, finishing lob cuts off Mobley's passing — and the Raptors had no answer for his interior dominance once it started. Toronto shot 6-of-28 from three on the night. In a series where three-point shooting variance had been the decisive factor in almost every individual game, the Raptors ran completely cold on the night that mattered most.

Mitchell led Cleveland with 22 points and was at his reliable best down the stretch — converting critical mid-range shots in the fourth quarter when Toronto tried to mount one final comeback. Harden added 18 points with 6 assists and Evan Mobley contributed 17 points and 11 rebounds in a quietly essential performance that created the lob opportunities Allen converted repeatedly. Barnes finished with 24 points, 9 rebounds, and 6 assists for Toronto — one of the finest individual series performances by any player who lost, averaging 24.2 points, 5.7 rebounds, and 9.0 assists. Barrett scored 23 points. Without Quickley and Ingram, the Raptors' creation narrowed to two players, and Cleveland's interior depth — Allen specifically — exposed the structural gap. The series ended 669-669 in aggregate scoring across seven games. No series in these playoffs has been more evenly matched. The home team got the last word, as it did every time.

CLE 114 · TOR 102

The first round of the 2026 NBA playoffs required 37 games and 20 days to complete. It produced two 3-1 comebacks in back-to-back nights. It featured seven Game 7s in the Eastern Conference alone. It played through more significant injuries than any first round in recent memory — Wembanyama's concussion, DiVincenzo's Achilles, Edwards' knee, Durant's ankle and knee, Ingram's heel, Barnes' quad, Wagner's calf, Tatum's knee — and the teams that navigated those losses most effectively advanced and the ones that couldn't absorb them didn't.

What the first round ultimately produced was a second round that carries enormous narrative weight into each of its four matchups. In the East: Detroit faces Cleveland — two Central Division rivals, two franchises that haven't been this relevant simultaneously in nearly two decades, meeting in a series that begins Tuesday. Philadelphia faces New York — Embiid against Brunson and Towns, a 3-1 comeback team against the team that won its series by 51 points in a single game. In the West: San Antonio faces Minnesota — Wembanyama against a shorthanded Wolves roster playing without Edwards and DiVincenzo. Oklahoma City faces Los Angeles — the defending champions against the LeBron-led Lakers who won a series without two of their three best players.

The first round was supposed to be a formality for most of these teams. It never was. The basketball was extraordinary. The second round starts Monday. The stakes are higher now.

Stud of the Day: Jarrett Allen, Cleveland Cavaliers — 22 points, 19 rebounds, 14 of those points in the decisive third-quarter run that turned a 10-point Toronto lead into a 19-point Cleveland advantage. The plus-27 rebounding differential was the largest in a winner-take-all game since 1987. In a series defined by Mitchell and Barnes, the decisive Game 7 performance belonged to neither of them. It belonged to Allen.

Dud of the Night: Orlando Magic (team) — They led this series 3-1. They lost it. Wagner's calf injury stripped them of the secondary scoring that made their Game 1 through 3 versions viable, and even with four players in double figures in Game 7, Detroit's two-headed monster of Cunningham and Harris was simply the better combination. Banchero — who averaged over 30 points in the series' final four games — deserved more around him at the critical moments. The Magic ran out of game before they ran out of fight, and their last seven second-half periods of the series averaged 18.8 points per period. That's the number that tells the story.