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Orlando Magic<\/a> (41-36, ninth in the Eastern Conference) vs. New Orleans Pelicans<\/a> (25-53, 12th in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n

New Orleans; Sunday, 7 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Magic -3; over\/under is 235.5<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: New Orleans will try to end its seven-game slide when the Pelicans take on Orlando.<\/p>\n

The Pelicans are 16-23 on their home court. New Orleans is 14-24 in games decided by 10 points or more.<\/p>\n

The Magic are 17-20 in road games. Orlando has an 18-25 record against teams above .500.<\/p>\n

The Pelicans score 114.9 points per game, 0.5 fewer points than the 115.4 the Magic give up. The Magic average 11.8 made 3-pointers per game this season, 2.4 fewer made shots on average than the 14.2 per game the Pelicans allow.<\/p>\n

The two teams square off for the second time this season. The Magic defeated the Pelicans 128-118 in their last matchup on Jan. 11. Desmond Bane<\/a> led the Magic with 27 points, and Zion Williamson<\/a> led the Pelicans with 22 points.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Trey Murphy III<\/a> is averaging 21.6 points, 5.7 rebounds, 3.8 assists and 1.5 steals for the Pelicans. Saddiq Bey<\/a> is averaging 3.0 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Bane is averaging 20.4 points and 4.2 assists for the Magic. Paolo Banchero<\/a> is averaging 22.2 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Pelicans: 3-7, averaging 111.5 points, 41.2 rebounds, 26.2 assists, 8.9 steals and 6.2 blocks per game while shooting 46.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 116.8 points per game.<\/p>\n

Magic: 3-7, averaging 114.2 points, 38.7 rebounds, 25.8 assists, 7.5 steals and 2.1 blocks per game while shooting 45.6% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 123.6 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Pelicans: Karlo Matkovic: day to day (back), Dejounte Murray: day to day (achilles), Bryce McGowens<\/a>: day to day (toe).<\/p>\n

Magic: Anthony Black<\/a>: out (abdomen), Jonathan Isaac<\/a>: out (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":"Orlando Magic (41-36, ninth in the Eastern Conference) vs. New Orleans Pelicans (25-53, 12th in the Western Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3779],"tags":[1130,7,7214,497,78812,2821,48,1407,6,470,47,76,3883,402,1020,6514,814],"class_list":{"0":"post-697758","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando-magic","8":"tag-anthony-black","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-bryce-mcgowens","11":"tag-desmond-bane","12":"tag-event_preview","13":"tag-jonathan-isaac","14":"tag-magic","15":"tag-national-basketball-association","16":"tag-nba","17":"tag-new-orleans-pelicans","18":"tag-orlando","19":"tag-orlando-magic","20":"tag-orlandomagic","21":"tag-paolo-banchero","22":"tag-saddiq-bey","23":"tag-trey-murphy-iii","24":"tag-zion-williamson"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116346641599426046","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697758","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=697758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}