{"id":703952,"date":"2026-04-07T19:53:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T19:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/703952\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T19:53:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T19:53:24","slug":"magics-desmond-bane-has-no-idea-who-howie-mandel-is-during-interview-surprise-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/703952\/","title":{"rendered":"Magic’s Desmond Bane Has No Idea Who Howie Mandel Is During Interview Surprise"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"TMZ\"<\/a>Updated Tue, April 7, 2026 at 2:45 PM UTC\"Howie<\/a><\/p>\n

Howie Mandel Crashes Desmond Bane Interview<\/p>\n

Desmond Bane had a courtside curveball thrown his way Monday night — and it came from an unexpected source.<\/p>\n

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, Howie Mandel <\/a>popped into the shot.<\/p>\n

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Mandel — rockin’ a cap and prepared for his cameo — leaned in and hit Bane with a quick compliment \u2026 \u201cYou got talent.\u201d<\/p>\n

Problem is \u2026 Bane looked like he had NO clue who just crashed his interview.<\/p>\n

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

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Whether Bane blanked on the \u201cAmerica’s Got Talent\u201d star \u2026 or just got thrown off by Howie’s look is unclear — but no harm, no foul.<\/p>\n

And let\u2019s be real \u2026 Bane had bigger things on his mind — like the game he just played<\/p>\n

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Howie Mandel Through The Years – Click image to open gallery<\/p>\n

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 … and breathing down the necks of the No. 6 seed as they are in a three-way tie with Philadelphia and Charlotte.<\/p>\n

Bane’s in his first year with the Magic after being traded by the Grizzlies last summer … and he’s averaging 20.5 points, having played in all 79 games so far this season.<\/p>\n

He might not have recognized the celeb cameo, but he kept the team’s postseason dreams alive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated Tue, April 7, 2026 at 2:45 PM UTC Howie Mandel Crashes Desmond Bane Interview Desmond Bane had…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":703953,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3779],"tags":[7,497,188,88198,48,6,47,76,3883,678,15531,88219],"class_list":{"0":"post-703952","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando-magic","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-desmond-bane","10":"tag-detroit-pistons","11":"tag-howie-mandel","12":"tag-magic","13":"tag-nba","14":"tag-orlando","15":"tag-orlando-magic","16":"tag-orlandomagic","17":"tag-philadelphia","18":"tag-postgame-interview","19":"tag-unexpected-source"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116365179437473735","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703952","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=703952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/703953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}