New Orleans Pelicans (9-31, 14th in the Western Conference) vs. Orlando Magic (21-18, eighth in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
Orlando, Florida; Sunday, 3 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The New Orleans Pelicans visit the Orlando Magic in a non-conference matchup.<\/p>\n
The Magic are 12-7 in home games. Orlando is ninth in the Eastern Conference with 26.2 assists per game led by Paolo Banchero averaging 4.8.<\/p>\n
The Pelicans are 3-14 in road games. New Orleans allows 122.3 points to opponents while being outscored by 7.5 points per game.<\/p>\n
The Magic are shooting 46.6% from the field this season, 1.9 percentage points lower than the 48.5% the Pelicans allow to opponents. The Pelicans are shooting 46.2% from the field, 1.2% lower than the 47.4% the Magic’s opponents have shot this season.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Desmond Bane is averaging 19 points and 4.5 assists for the Magic. Banchero is averaging 20.6 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Trey Murphy III is averaging 21.7 points, 6.2 rebounds, 3.5 assists and 1.6 steals for the Pelicans. Jordan Poole is averaging 2.2 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Magic: 5-5, averaging 111.6 points, 43.3 rebounds, 27.2 assists, 8.0 steals and 5.0 blocks per game while shooting 45.7% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 114.3 points per game.<\/p>\n
Pelicans: 1-9, averaging 112.9 points, 43.9 rebounds, 25.0 assists, 9.1 steals and 6.1 blocks per game while shooting 45.6% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 122.5 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Magic: Franz Wagner: out (ankle), Tristan da Silva: out (back), Moritz Wagner: out (knee), Jalen Suggs: out (knee).<\/p>\n
Pelicans: Jose Alvarado: out (oblique), Dejounte Murray: out (leg), Saddiq Bey: out (hip), Herbert Jones: out (ankle).<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Orleans Pelicans (9-31, 14th in the Western Conference) vs. Orlando Magic (21-18, eighth in the Eastern Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3796],"tags":[72808,1297,2889,7,6,446,478,470,4073,4072,675,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-526747","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-orleans-pelicans","8":"tag-72808","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-athlete-injuries","11":"tag-basketball","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-nba-basketball","14":"tag-new-orleans","15":"tag-new-orleans-pelicans","16":"tag-neworleans","17":"tag-neworleanspelicans","18":"tag-pelicans","19":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115870299800136233","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526747","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=526747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}