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NBA · Meetings since 2019-20 · 13 regular-season finals · no playoff meetings

HEAD TO HEAD

Regular season

13 regular-season meetings listed since 2019-20

Showing: Regular season

Record from 13 regular-season finals. Playoff meetings are never added in.

5–8RECORD
114.3PTS FOR
115.9PTS AGAINST
-1.6MARGIN
13FINALS

Home and road

  • HomeDET home games · from 6 regular-season finals3–3112.5–113.8 PTS
  • Roadat LAL · from 7 regular-season finals2–5115.9–117.7 PTS

Biggest wins

Detroit Pistons against the Los Angeles Lakers, regular-season meetings by season
SeasonRecordPTS forPTS againstMargin
2025-262–0120.5108.0+12.5
2024-252–0116.0108.5+7.5
2023-240–2109.0129.0-20.0
2022-230–2119.0126.0-7.0
2021-220–2111.0115.5-4.5
2020-211–1118.0113.5+4.5
2019-200–199.0106.0-7.0
POSTSEASON

Playoffs

None since 2019-20

Showing: Playoffs

No playoff meeting since 2019-20. Regular-season meetings are never counted here.

No playoff meetings

None between the Detroit Pistons and the Los Angeles Lakers since 2019-20. Missing meetings are not inferred.

LAST 5

Latest meetings

Newest first · regular-season games only

Mar 23, 2026Home · RS · Final · Won
LAL110—113DET
Box score
Dec 30, 2025Away · RS · Final · Won
DET128—106LAL
Box score
Dec 23, 2024Away · RS · Final · Won
DET117—114LAL
Box score
Nov 4, 2024Home · RS · Final · Won
LAL103—115DET
Box score
Feb 13, 2024Away · RS · Final · Lost
DET111—125LAL
Box score
NEXT

Next meeting

The 2026-27 schedule held

None scheduled yet

The 2026-27 NBA schedule Sport Data Service holds lists games through Nov 6, 2026, and no Pistons–Lakers meeting still to play.

EVERY MEETING

Results

13 meetings

2025-26

Mar 23, 2026Home · RS · Final · Won
LAL110—113DET
Box score
Dec 30, 2025Away · RS · Final · Won
DET128—106LAL
Box score

2024-25

Dec 23, 2024Away · RS · Final · Won
DET117—114LAL
Box score
Nov 4, 2024Home · RS · Final · Won
LAL103—115DET
Box score

2023-24

Feb 13, 2024Away · RS · Final · Lost
DET111—125LAL
Box score
Nov 29, 2023Home · RS · Final · Lost
LAL133—107DET
Box score

2022-23

Dec 11, 2022Home · RS · Final · Lost
LAL124—117DET
Box score
Nov 18, 2022Away · RS · Final · Lost
DET121—128LAL
Box score

2021-22

Nov 28, 2021Away · RS · Final · Lost
DET106—110LAL
Box score
Nov 21, 2021Home · RS · Final · Lost
LAL121—116DET
Box score

2020-21

Feb 6, 2021Away · RS · Final · Lost
DET129—135LAL
Box score
Jan 28, 2021Home · RS · Final · Won
LAL92—107DET
Box score

2019-20

Jan 5, 2020Away · RS · Final · Lost
DET99—106LAL
Box score
MATCHUP COVERAGEMeetings since 2019-20

Meetings since 2019-20 (NBA), from each held season's schedule as Sport Data Service holds it. Not an all-time head-to-head.

Records count finals more than 6 hours old, the regular season and the playoffs apart; a fresher final is listed as provisional and a final whose score is not verified is listed, never counted. Preseason and Cup final meetings are listed, tagged, never counted.

Sport Data Service does not hold NBA play-in games or NBA Cup finals (observed 2026-10-19), so no such meeting is listed or counted here.

It also lacks some single games, such as neutral-site and Cup games (8 dates; each date's games page names them): if these two teams met on one of them, that meeting is missing here.

2019-20: box scores incomplete.

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Meetings since 2019-20 only. This page is not an all-time head-to-head record.