Cleveland Cavaliers (40-25, fourth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Orlando Magic (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, while Paolo Banchero 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 is averaging 2.6 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
James Harden is averaging 24.2 points and 8.1 assists for the Cavaliers. Jarrett Allen 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: out (ankle), Anthony Black: day to day (back), Jonathan Isaac: day to day (knee), Jase Richardson: day to day (back), Colin Castleton: out (thumb).<\/p>\n
Cavaliers: Max Strus: out (foot), Tyrese Proctor: out (quadriceps), Jarrett Allen: day to day (knee).<\/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":"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":38965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3779],"tags":[84182,1297,7,48,6,446,47,76,3883,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-651023","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando-magic","8":"tag-84182","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-magic","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-nba-basketball","14":"tag-orlando","15":"tag-orlando-magic","16":"tag-orlandomagic","17":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116205443392515399","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651023","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=651023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651023\/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=651023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}