{"id":703527,"date":"2026-04-07T15:24:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T15:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/703527\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T15:24:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T15:24:22","slug":"magics-desmond-bane-has-no-idea-who-howie-mandel-is-during-interview-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/703527\/","title":{"rendered":"Magic&#8217;s Desmond Bane Has No Idea Who Howie Mandel Is During Interview Surprise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                          Magic&#8217;s Desmond Bane<br \/>\n                          Confused As Howie Mandel Crashes Live Interview<br \/>\n                          &#8230; &#8216;You Got Talent!&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>\n                                                                        Published<br \/>\n                              April 7, 2026<br \/>\n                            7:27 AM PDT\n                                                                            <\/p>\n<p>            Play video content<\/p>\n<p>                    <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/62c970d8d50f46659e8610a892fa0c2f_md.png\" alt=\"040726 desmond bane kal\" width=\"728\" height=\"410\" class=\"img-fluid\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                    X\/@OrlandoMagic<\/p>\n<p>Desmond Bane had a courtside curveball thrown his way Monday night &#8212; and it came from an unexpected source.<\/p>\n<p>The Orlando Magic guard was in the middle of a routine postgame interview after Orlando\u2019s 123-107 win over the Detroit Pistons at Kia Center \u2026 when outta nowhere, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/howie-mandel\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Howie Mandel <\/a>popped into the shot.<\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20260407_e4a4289b6624420eb7cbce23ebee3f75\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:fd058dc7-a40e-4230-9bb2-e576bf724d98\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/e4a4289b6624420eb7cbce23ebee3f75_md.jpg\" alt=\"Desmond Bane getty 2\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mandel &#8212; rockin&#8217; a cap and prepared for his cameo &#8212; leaned in and hit Bane with a quick compliment \u2026 \u201cYou got talent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"continued\" class=\"continued-anchor\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Problem is \u2026 Bane looked like he had NO clue who just crashed his interview.<\/p>\n<p>Still, DB played it cool and dapped Mandel up as the TV personality doubled down with, \u201cI\u2019m a judge,\u201d before casually strolling off the court.<\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20260407_39f1cc232af54269860e5a36b2deef7e\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:fd058dc7-a40e-4230-9bb2-e576bf724d98\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/39f1cc232af54269860e5a36b2deef7e_md.jpg\" alt=\"Desmond Bane getty 1\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Whether Bane blanked on the \u201cAmerica&#8217;s Got Talent\u201d star \u2026 or just got thrown off by Howie&#8217;s look is unclear &#8212; but no harm, no foul.<\/p>\n<p>And let\u2019s be real \u2026 Bane had bigger things on his mind &#8212; like the game he just played<\/p>\n<p>Desmond dropped 25 points in the win, helping keep Orlando right in the thick of the Eastern Conference playoff race, where the Magic sit at 43-36 &#8230; and breathing down the necks of the No. 6 seed as they are in a three-way tie with Philadelphia and Charlotte.<\/p>\n<p>Bane&#8217;s in his first year with the Magic after being traded by the Grizzlies last summer &#8230; and he&#8217;s averaging 20.5 points, having played in all 79 games so far this season.<\/p>\n<p>He might not have recognized the celeb cameo, but he kept the team&#8217;s postseason dreams alive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Magic&#8217;s Desmond Bane Confused As Howie Mandel Crashes Live Interview &#8230; &#8216;You Got Talent!&#8217; Published April 7, 2026&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":703528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3779],"tags":[7,48,6,67,47,76,3883,66,83,2228],"class_list":{"0":"post-703527","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando-magic","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-magic","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-orlando","13":"tag-orlando-magic","14":"tag-orlandomagic","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-sports-news","17":"tag-tmz-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116364122162099148","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703527","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=703527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/703528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}