The Cleveland Cavaliers will face the Detroit Pistons on Monday, October 27 in an early-season Week 2 contest that’s exclusive to Peacock. Tipoff time is set for 7 p.m. ET, with the game streaming live from Little Caesars Arena in Detroit.

The Cleveland Cavaliers looked discombobulated in their season opener, and it's something they'll have to figure out moving ahead.

After a humbling season-opening loss, coach Jordi Fernandez challenged his Nets to show more fight and his stars, Cam Thomas and Michael Porter Jr., to give more on both ends. He got all of that and more. And it still wasn’t enough, as Brooklyn dropped its home opener 131-124 to Cleveland before a crowd of 17,548 at Barclays Center.

The Cavaliers were drastically out-rebounded, 48-32, were dominated in the paint and struggled to keep any momentum in their favor. Missing guards Darius Garland and Max Strus, and forward De'Andre Hunter due to injury, the team had to rely on a lot of rotation pieces to fill in the gaps.

"He’s a really funny dude. He’s a great storyteller. But he was never a part of the staff," a team source said of Jones.

The Cleveland Cavaliers had the best record in the Eastern Conference and the second-best record in the NBA last season, but they flamed out with a five-game loss to the 4-seeded Pacers in the second round of the playoffs.

Garland underwent surgery on his left great toe in June, and Cleveland has yet to target a specific return date. The 25-year-old sustained the toe injury near the end of the regular season and played five of the team's nine playoff games, though he didn't look like himself in the Cavaliers’ conference semifinals loss to the Indiana Pacers.

NBA head coach Chauncey Billups and former Cleveland Cavaliers player and coach Damon Jones are among the defendants who were arrested on Thursday, Oct. 23 for allegedly using wireless technology to 'cheat people out of millions of dollars' during illegal poker games,