The Orlando Magic (37-28) defeated the Washington Wizards (16-49) 136-131 in overtime on Thursday at the Kia Center. Orlando improved to 8-2 in games on the second night of a back-to-back, tied for the best record in the National Basketball Association.<\/p>\n
\u201cI saw the second night of a back-to-back take place,\u201d Magic coach Jamahl Mosley said. \u201cGuys got ahead a little bit. They did a great job of playing with pace and playing with speed. Give Washington a ton of credit. What they\u2019ve been dealing with over the past couple days. They came out, played hard. That was a big portion of it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jalen Suggs led Orlando with season-high 28 points and Tristan da Silva had a career-high 26 points. For the Wizards, Bilal Coulibaly had a career-high 29 points, 18 of which came in the fourth quarter and overtime.<\/p>\n
Orlando extended its win streak to six, the longest streak since December of 2024. The Magic\u2019s longest winning streak in franchise history occurred in 2023, winning nine in a row.<\/p>\n
Orlando held the lead for most of regulation, including a 17-point lead at the start of the fourth quarter. The Magic\u2019s largest lead came halfway through the third quarter at 19 points, but the team\u2019s momentum came to a halt after Jonathan Isaac suffered a left knee sprain.<\/p>\n
\u201c[We had to] just come back and regroup ourselves and come back to a positive mindset is huge,\u201d da Silva said of Isaac\u2019s injury. \u201cFor me personally, I try to think about what he would be thinking. Just being out there and playing that hard for him.\u201d<\/p>\n
After suffering a lower leg injury midway through the third quarter, Suggs returned at the start of the fourth and made an instant impact. Suggs stole a pass from Wizards guard Jamir Watkins and laid it in.<\/p>\n
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The Wizards trailed until Coulibaly hit a three with 5.8 seconds remaining, capping off a 42-point quarter from Washington. Washington\u2019s comeback was without starters Alex Sarr and Trae Young, as both sat for the entirety of the fourth quarter and overtime.<\/p>\n
Coulibaly gave Washington the lead for the first time two minutes into overtime. The Magic went on to outscore the Wizards 9-3 to close the overtime period, including five-straight from Suggs. da Silva had a clutch block on Coulibaly with 41.2 seconds left and collected an offensive rebound with 18.9 seconds remaining as well.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Orlando improved to 5-0 while wearing their City Edition jerseys and have only one contest remaining (March 26 vs. Kings). The Magic are also 9-3 since the All Star Break and currently sit fifth in the Eastern Conference.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Next up:<\/p>\n
The Magic travel to Miami to face the Heat on Saturday. Miami and Orlando have the second- and third-longest active win streaks in the NBA, only trailing their fellow Southeast Division rival Atlanta.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think this game today was kind of a reality check too,\u201d da Silva said. \u201cYou gotta be locked in every single time you\u2019re on the court.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tip-off against the Heat is set for 8 p.m. on March 14.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Orlando Magic (37-28) defeated the Washington Wizards (16-49) 136-131 in overtime on Thursday at the Kia Center.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":655681,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3780],"tags":[7,461,6,76,682,468,3892,683],"class_list":["post-655680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-washington-wizards","tag-basketball","tag-jalen-suggs","tag-nba","tag-orlando-magic","tag-washington","tag-washington-wizards","tag-washingtonwizards","tag-wizards"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116220093082464630","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655680","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=655680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}