Looking to get back on track after losing five of their last six games, the New York Knicks return to Madison Square Garden Monday night to take on the Detroit Pistons. 

This will be the teams’ first matchup since their six-player trade in early February that sent Bojan Bogdanovic and Alec Burks to the Knicks. Quentin Grimes was the key piece returned to Detroit. 

Grimes made his Pistons debut Saturday after battling a knee sprain and is expected to play against his former team Monday.

The Knicks’ most-recent defeat came Saturday against the Boston Celtics, the team with the best record in the NBA. 

(7:30 p.m. ET, MSG)

In a 116-102 setback at MSG, Jalen Brunson carried the load for New York with 34 points, but the Knicks couldn’t overcome Boston’s 57% shooting from the field and their 15 3-pointers.

The Pistons own the worst record in the NBA at 8-48, with evenly split 4-24 marks at home and on the road.

Detroit suffered through a 28-game losing streak earlier this season but have picked up impressive wins over Western Conference contenders Oklahoma City and Sacramento over the last month.

New York has captured 10 straight meetings with Detroit since the 2020-21 season, including a 118-112 home triumph in late November. The Pistons managed to cover as 14.5-point underdogs, but Brunson dismantled Detroit, scoring 42 points.

Detroit is working on a new losing streak, dropping its past five games. The latest setback came Saturday – a 112-109 home defeat to the Magic. The Pistons, however, cashed as eight-point underdogs.

Since the start of January, the Knicks have finished under the total in 13 of 16 games at the Garden, while scoring less than 104 points in three of their last four contests overall.

Meanwhile, the Pistons have gone under the total in their last five games, with a team total that hasn’t surpassed 115 points in that stretch.

Let’s look for both teams to continue their under trends Monday.