NBA · Detroit Pistons · Updated Oct 20, 2026
Cade Cunningham First Basket Stats
How often Cade Cunningham scores the game's first basket for the Detroit Pistons, and how that compares with teammates. Built from every tracked NBA game.
- Cade Cunningham has scored the game's first basket in 7 of 64 starts: 10.9% of the time.
- That is 17.5% of the first baskets the Detroit Pistons have scored.
- The Detroit Pistons score the first basket 48.8% of the time and win the opening tip 43.9% (82 games).
| Player | First baskets | Starts | Rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jalen DurenC | 10 | 70 | 14.3% |
| Cade CunninghamG | 7 | 64 | 10.9% |
| John CollinsF | 6 | 56 | 10.7% |
| Ausar ThompsonG | 5 | 72 | 6.9% |
| Duncan RobinsonF | 5 | 77 | 6.5% |
More first basket stats
- Detroit Pistons first basket stats: the team's tip-off and scores-first rates, and its position split
- Cade Cunningham in FirstIQ: the full profile, game by game
- NBA first basket stats by player: every player, ranked
- How to bet first basket: the tip, the team and the player, step by step
- First basket picks today: the model's pick for every game today, one of them free
Cade Cunningham first basket questions
Cade Cunningham has scored the game's first basket in 7 of 64 starts tracked, a rate of 10.9%.
Jalen Duren (10 first baskets in 70 starts), John Collins (6 first baskets in 56 starts), Ausar Thompson (5 first baskets in 72 starts). The table on this page has each of them.
From every tracked game: the game's first scoring play, made free throws included, the team that won the opening tip, and which side was at home. A game the tip winner or the home side was not recorded for is left out of that one figure, and each figure says how many games it is out of.
The stats are rebuilt as games are played; the date at the top is when this page was last updated.
On the first basket picks page: the model's pick for every game today, one of them free, with every finished game graded.