{"id":706369,"date":"2026-04-09T04:48:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T04:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/706369\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T04:48:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T04:48:38","slug":"banchero-leads-orlando-to-fourth-straight-win-in-dominant-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/706369\/","title":{"rendered":"Banchero leads Orlando to fourth straight win in dominant victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1398265_084341_updates.jpg\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"686\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" alt=\"Timberwolves vs Magic: Banchero leads Orlando to fourth straight win in dominant victory\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Orlando Magic extended their winning streak to four games with a 132-120 victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves, according to the NBA.<\/p>\n<p>Paolo Banchero led the way with 20 points and eight rebounds, while Desmond Bane added 18 points and six assists. <\/p>\n<p>Franz Wagner contributed 17 points and Goga Bitadze impressed off the bench with 14 points and 15 rebounds.<\/p>\n<p>The win moves Orlando to 44-36, placing them seventh in the Eastern Conference as the playoff race tightens.<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota was led by Terrence Shannon Jr., who scored a career-high 33 point including 29 in the second half. <\/p>\n<p>Jaden McDaniels added 18 points in his return from injury.<\/p>\n<p>The Timberwolves were without several key players, including Anthony Edwards, Julius Randle and Rudy Gobert, and have now lost five of their last seven games.<\/p>\n<p>Orlando began to take control late in the first half, turning a 47-47 tie into a 63-53 lead at the break. <\/p>\n<p>The Magic then pulled away in the third quarter with a 22-6 run, highlighted by scoring bursts from Jalen Suggs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Orlando Magic extended their winning streak to four games with a 132-120 victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":706370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3782],"tags":[7,307,152,3954,6,308],"class_list":{"0":"post-706369","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-minnesota-timberwolves","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-minnesota","10":"tag-minnesota-timberwolves","11":"tag-minnesotatimberwolves","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-timberwolves"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116372944800084107","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706369","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=706369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/706370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}