{"id":709797,"date":"2026-04-13T18:30:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T18:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/709797\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T18:30:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T18:30:16","slug":"magic-must-shake-off-unacceptable-celtics-loss-before-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/709797\/","title":{"rendered":"Magic Must Shake Off \u2018Unacceptable\u2019 Celtics Loss Before Playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nba\/teams\/orlando_magic\/122\" class=\"yard_link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Orlando Magic<\/a> are in a bit of a pickle after  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nba\/magic\/onsi\/news\/orlando-magic-slide-puzzling-rotation-decisions-loss-boston-celtics\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">losing to the Boston Celtics<\/a> in their regular season finale, which pushed them down to the eighth seed in the Eastern Conference standings. <\/p>\n<p>The Magic could have been as high as the sixth spot in the East if they beat the Celtics. They couldn&#8217;t beat a Celtics team that sat nearly their entire playoff rotation for the final game of the season. The loss is sounding the alarm on Orlando&#8217;s chances to advance out of the Play-In Tournament, especially now that they have to start their journey on the road against the Philadelphia 76ers. <\/p>\n<p>Magic Loss vs. Celtics is Unacceptable<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Orlando Magic are in a bit of a pickle after losing to the Boston Celtics in their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":709798,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3769],"tags":[679,7,6,678,207,3817],"class_list":{"0":"post-709797","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia-76ers","8":"tag-76ers","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-philadelphia","12":"tag-philadelphia-76ers","13":"tag-philadelphia76ers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116398825407424239","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709797","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=709797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/709798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}