ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Nickeil Alexander-Walker scored 32 points, Jalen Johnson added 18 points and 14 rebounds, and the Atlanta Hawks routed the Orlando Magic 130-101 on Wednesday night for their 17th victory in their last 19 games.<\/p>\n
Dyson Daniels had 15 points and 13 rebounds for the Hawks, who shot 51% for the game and had a 52-36 rebound advantage. Johnson came two assists short of his 14th triple-double of the season.<\/p>\n
The Hawks swept the season series against the Magic 4-0 and now have a 3 1\/2 game lead over Orlando in the Southeast Division with five games remaining \u2014 six for Orlando.<\/p>\n
Jamal Cain led the Magic with 17 points off the bench. Desmond Bane and Wendell Carter Jr. added 14 points each.<\/p>\n
Magic forward Franz Wagner scored 12 points in 20 minutes in his first game since Feb. 11. Wagner, who averaged 23.4 points on 55% shooting in the Magic\u2019s first 23 games, has missed 47 of the last 52 games with a high ankle sprain.<\/p>\n
The Hawks blew the game open with a 47-point second quarter in which they made 17 of 24 shots. Jonathan Kuminga’s 3-pointer broke a 32-32 tie early in the quarter and Atlanta led the rest of the game, stretching the margin to 31 early in the second half.<\/p>\n
Alexander-Walker scored 17 points in the period, and he was one of six players to score during a four-minute stretch in which Orlando went scoreless.<\/p>\n
With 7:30 remaining in the game and the Hawks up 110-89, Magic center Goga Bitadze drew a flagrant foul 2 (and automatic ejection) for pulling Hawks center Jock Landale down by the shoulder. Daniels was given a technical foul for confronting Bitadze after the takedown.<\/p>\n
Hawks: Play at Brooklyn on Friday night.<\/p>\n
Magic: Play at Dallas on Friday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Nickeil Alexander-Walker scored 32 points, Jalen Johnson added 18 points and 14 rebounds, and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":693173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3776],"tags":[676,208,3874,7,497,206,403,875,677,2990,10666,3692,867,87418,6,379,29496,29494,29495,86427,862],"class_list":{"0":"post-693172","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-atlanta-hawks","8":"tag-atlanta","9":"tag-atlanta-hawks","10":"tag-atlantahawks","11":"tag-basketball","12":"tag-desmond-bane","13":"tag-dyson-daniels","14":"tag-franz-wagner","15":"tag-goga-bitadze","16":"tag-hawks","17":"tag-jalen-johnson","18":"tag-jamal-cain","19":"tag-jock-landale","20":"tag-jonathan-kuminga","21":"tag-magic-hawks-score-wagner","22":"tag-nba","23":"tag-nickeil-alexander-walker","24":"tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","25":"tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","26":"tag-product-40780-ap-florida-sports-only","27":"tag-product-40781-ap-georgia-sports-only","28":"tag-wendell-carter"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116332969753033052","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693172","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=693172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/693173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}