The Washington Wizards lost to the Orlando Magic, 126-109 on Tuesday night on the road.<\/p>\n
The first half of this game was a rather even affair with Washington own 57-54. Neither team shot particularly well from three with the Magic shooting 1-of-13 from the line. There was a chance that the Wizards could win if their shooting could turn around.<\/p>\n
Advertisement<\/p>\n
In the third quarter, the Wizards shot better, 52.6 percent overall. But the Magic shot 15-of-19 from the field AND 5-of-5 overall from the three point line, so they broke the game open with a 97-81 lead heading in to the fourth quarter. Paolo Banchero scored 13 of his 37 points in that period. After the third quarter, this game was decided.<\/p>\n
For the Wizards, Will Riley led with 19 points while Jaden Hardy added 18 points and Sharife Cooper added 16 more off the bench.<\/p>\n
The Wizards\u2019 next game is on Thursday when they host the Utah Jazz at 7 p.m. ET. See you then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Washington Wizards lost to the Orlando Magic, 126-109 on Tuesday night on the road. The first half…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":638268,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3780],"tags":[7,39798,568,7138,6,76,402,28695,427,682,468,3892,982,683],"class_list":["post-638267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-washington-wizards","tag-basketball","tag-copyright-notice","tag-getty-images","tag-jaden-hardy","tag-nba","tag-orlando-magic","tag-paolo-banchero","tag-sharife-cooper","tag-utah-jazz","tag-washington","tag-washington-wizards","tag-washingtonwizards","tag-will-riley","tag-wizards"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116169450873453095","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638267","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=638267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/638268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}