{"id":707963,"date":"2026-04-11T06:18:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T06:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/707963\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T06:18:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T06:18:36","slug":"orlando-takes-road-win-streak-into-matchup-with-boston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/707963\/","title":{"rendered":"Orlando takes road win streak into matchup with Boston"},"content":{"rendered":"

Orlando Magic<\/a> (45-36, seventh in the Eastern Conference) vs. Boston Celtics<\/a> (55-26, second in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n

Boston; Sunday, 6 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Magic -4.5; over\/under is 216.5<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Orlando will try to keep its three-game road win streak intact when the Magic face Boston.<\/p>\n

The Celtics are 35-16 in Eastern Conference games. Boston averages 114.9 points while outscoring opponents by 7.8 points per game.<\/p>\n

The Magic have gone 26-25 against Eastern Conference opponents. Orlando is 11-5 in games decided by less than 4 points.<\/p>\n

The Celtics are shooting 46.8% from the field this season, 0.8 percentage points lower than the 47.6% the Magic allow to opponents. The Magic score 8.7 more points per game (115.8) than the Celtics allow (107.1).<\/p>\n

The teams square off for the fourth time this season. The Celtics won 138-129 in the last meeting on Nov. 23. Jaylen Brown<\/a> led the Celtics with 35 points, and Jett Howard<\/a> led the Magic with 30 points.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Brown is averaging 28.7 points, 6.9 rebounds and 5.1 assists for the Celtics. Payton Pritchard<\/a> is averaging 19.7 points and 4.3 assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Paolo Banchero<\/a> is scoring 22.2 points per game and averaging 8.4 rebounds for the Magic. Jalen Suggs<\/a> is averaging 2.1 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Celtics: 8-2, averaging 120.2 points, 45.3 rebounds, 26.4 assists, 5.8 steals and 4.1 blocks per game while shooting 50.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 108.5 points per game.<\/p>\n

Magic: 7-3, averaging 118.7 points, 42.4 rebounds, 27.8 assists, 8.1 steals and 3.7 blocks per game while shooting 48.0% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 119.8 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Celtics: Jayson Tatum<\/a>: out (injury management).<\/p>\n

Magic: Jett Howard: out (ankle), 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 (45-36, seventh in the Eastern Conference) vs. Boston Celtics (55-26, second in the Eastern Conference) Boston;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3779],"tags":[7,75,78812,461,78,77,460,2821,48,1407,6,47,76,3883,402,405],"class_list":{"0":"post-707963","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando-magic","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-boston-celtics","10":"tag-event_preview","11":"tag-jalen-suggs","12":"tag-jaylen-brown","13":"tag-jayson-tatum","14":"tag-jett-howard","15":"tag-jonathan-isaac","16":"tag-magic","17":"tag-national-basketball-association","18":"tag-nba","19":"tag-orlando","20":"tag-orlando-magic","21":"tag-orlandomagic","22":"tag-paolo-banchero","23":"tag-payton-pritchard"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116384623348234362","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707963","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=707963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707963\/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=707963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}