Orlando Magic (1-4, 13th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Charlotte Hornets (2-2, eighth in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
Charlotte, North Carolina; Thursday, 7 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Magic -2.5; over\/under is 241.5<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: Orlando aims to end its four-game losing streak with a win against Charlotte.<\/p>\n Charlotte went 19-63 overall, 10-42 in Eastern Conference play and 12-29 at home during the 2024-25 season. The Hornets averaged 105.1 points per game while shooting 43.0% from the field and 33.9% from 3-point distance last season.<\/p>\n Orlando went 41-41 overall and 31-21 in Eastern Conference action during the 2024-25 season. The Magic averaged 105.4 points per game last season, 45.7 in the paint, 19.0 off of turnovers and 13.8 on fast breaks.<\/p>\n INJURIES: Hornets: Grant Williams: out (acl), Brandon Miller: out (shoulder), Josh Green: out (shoulder).<\/p>\n Magic: Moritz Wagner: day to day (knee).<\/p>\n ___<\/p>\n The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Orlando Magic (1-4, 13th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Charlotte Hornets (2-2, eighth in the Eastern Conference) Charlotte,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3777],"tags":[7,970,684,473,3878,1409,1439,685,8423,6,1773,76,4485],"class_list":{"0":"post-377079","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-charlotte-hornets","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-brandon-miller","10":"tag-charlotte","11":"tag-charlotte-hornets","12":"tag-charlottehornets","13":"tag-eastern-conference","14":"tag-grant-williams","15":"tag-hornets","16":"tag-moritz-wagner","17":"tag-nba","18":"tag-north-carolina","19":"tag-orlando-magic","20":"tag-points-per-game"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115462735641379652","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}