{"id":650424,"date":"2026-03-10T07:32:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T07:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/650424\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T07:32:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T07:32:14","slug":"magic-play-the-cavaliers-on-4-game-win-streak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/650424\/","title":{"rendered":"Magic play the Cavaliers on 4-game win streak"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cleveland Cavaliers<\/a> (40-25, fourth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Orlando Magic<\/a> (35-28, sixth in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n

Orlando, Florida; Wednesday, 7:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Orlando aims to keep its four-game win streak going when the Magic take on Cleveland.<\/p>\n

The Magic have gone 21-19 against Eastern Conference teams. Orlando is 15-15 in games decided by 10 points or more.<\/p>\n

The Cavaliers are 26-16 against Eastern Conference opponents. Cleveland has a 2-5 record in one-possession games.<\/p>\n

The Magic score 115.1 points per game, 0.5 more points than the 114.6 the Cavaliers give up. The Cavaliers are shooting 47.5% from the field, 0.1% higher than the 47.4% the Magic’s opponents have shot this season.<\/p>\n

The teams meet for the third time this season. In the last matchup on Jan. 27 the Cavaliers won 114-98 led by 45 points from Donovan Mitchell<\/a>, while Paolo Banchero<\/a> scored 37 points for the Magic.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Banchero is averaging 22.2 points, 8.6 rebounds and five assists for the Magic. Desmond Bane<\/a> is averaging 2.6 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

James Harden<\/a> is averaging 24.2 points and 8.1 assists for the Cavaliers. Jarrett Allen<\/a> is averaging 15.1 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Magic: 7-3, averaging 115.2 points, 45.7 rebounds, 27.1 assists, 8.4 steals and 4.9 blocks per game while shooting 47.1% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 105.0 points per game.<\/p>\n

Cavaliers: 6-4, averaging 111.9 points, 42.7 rebounds, 26.5 assists, 7.8 steals and 5.5 blocks per game while shooting 46.7% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 107.3 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Magic: Franz Wagner<\/a>: out (ankle), Anthony Black<\/a>: day to day (back), Jonathan Isaac<\/a>: day to day (knee), Jase Richardson: day to day (back), Colin Castleton<\/a>: out (thumb).<\/p>\n

Cavaliers: Max Strus: out (foot), Tyrese Proctor: out (quadriceps), Jarrett Allen: day to day (knee).<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cleveland Cavaliers (40-25, fourth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Orlando Magic (35-28, sixth in the Eastern Conference) Orlando,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3779],"tags":[1130,7,193,20641,497,864,78812,403,560,1178,2821,48,1407,6,47,76,3883,402],"class_list":["post-650424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-orlando-magic","tag-anthony-black","tag-basketball","tag-cleveland-cavaliers","tag-colin-castleton","tag-desmond-bane","tag-donovan-mitchell","tag-event_preview","tag-franz-wagner","tag-james-harden","tag-jarrett-allen","tag-jonathan-isaac","tag-magic","tag-national-basketball-association","tag-nba","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-magic","tag-orlandomagic","tag-paolo-banchero"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116203719566027714","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650424","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=650424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}