Detroit Pistons continued their losing streak with 28th straight defeat at NBA round-up.

The NBA record for most consecutive losses in a single season has officially been broken and then some. The Detroit Pistons ran their historic losing streak to 28 games with a 128-122 overtime loss to the Celtics in Boston.

With 28 straight defeats, the Pistons are now tied with the 76ers for the NBA's all-time record of consecutive losses. 
Unfortunately for Detroit, it compiled such an ignominious record in one season as the Sixers compiled their losses on either side of the 2014-15 and 2015-16 campaigns.

In major North American sports, only the NFL’s Chicago Cardinals, who lost 29 straight from 1942-45, have had a longer losing streak.

Despite opening a season-high 21-point lead in the first half, the Pistons found themselves trailing 106-100 in the final two minutes of regulation.

It was the first time all season the Pistons led by more than 20 points, and the first time they had gotten to overtime in the two months since their last win.

Boston erased a 66-45, second-quarter lead with a 19-5 run in the third that turned a 15-point deficit into a 77-76 game. 
Kristaps Porzingis had eight of his season-high 35 points in a 10-0 run that turned a four-point deficit into a 106-100 Boston lead in the final two minutes of regulation.

Jaden Ivey scored six straight points for Detroit to tie it and then, after Jayson Tatum was credited with a layup on a replay-confirmed goaltending call, Bojan Bogdanovic made a putback on Cunningham’s missed 3 to send it to OT.

But Derrick White scored 10 of his 23 points in the extra period and Porzingis had six in the overtime — dunking after a full-court pass from Tatum and then sinking a pair of free throws to make it 125-117.

Tatum had 31 points and 10 assists for Boston, which won its fourth straight and its ninth in the last 10 games. The Celtics, who were without Jaylen Brown, are 15-0 at home this season and have the league’s best record, 24-6.