ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Desmond Bane scored 31 points, Paolo Banchero added 28 points and 12 rebounds and the Orlando Magic handed the Indiana Pacers their 12th straight loss, 135-127 on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Anthony Black had 27 points and 10 assists for the Magic, who beat the Pacers for the second time in five days.<\/p>\n
Pascal Siakam led Indiana with 34 points. Aaron Nesmith had 25 points and eight assists and Andrew Nembard added 20 points and 11 assists for the Pacers, who shot 55.2 % after coming into the game with the NBA’s poorest field-goal percentage (43.8%).<\/p>\n
Orlando shot 56% overall and made 15 of 32 3-pointers (46.9%).<\/p>\n
Seven months after playing in the NBA Finals, the injury-depleted Pacers tied a 43-year-old franchise record with their 12th straight loss. Two of their last three losses were against the Magic, including a 112-110 decision on Dec. 31 at Indianapolis.<\/p>\n
Bane scored nine points during a 17-0 run that wiped out an early 12-point Pacers lead.<\/p>\n
Siakam kept Indiana in the game with a 20-point third quarter and the Pacers took a one-point lead on a couple of free throws by Nembhard with 7:29 left in the game. Bane answered with a layup, fed Banchero for a 3-pointer and the Magic held on.<\/p>\n
Bennedict Mathurin (thumb) missed his 12th game of the season for Indiana.<\/p>\n
Jalen Suggs (knee) missed his 13th game for Orlando.<\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
Pacers: Play at home against Cleveland on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n
Magic: Play at Washington on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Desmond Bane scored 31 points, Paolo Banchero added 28 points and 12 rebounds and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":517188,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3779],"tags":[2097,7,420,48,6,47,76,3883,1979,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-517187","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando-magic","8":"tag-associated-press","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-florida","11":"tag-magic","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-orlando","14":"tag-orlando-magic","15":"tag-orlandomagic","16":"tag-professional-basketball","17":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115839931827308102","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517187","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=517187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}