{"id":711646,"date":"2026-04-16T08:57:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T08:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/711646\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T08:57:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T08:57:21","slug":"orlando-magic-lose-to-philadelphia-76ers-what-happens-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/711646\/","title":{"rendered":"Orlando Magic lose to Philadelphia 76ers: What happens next?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thu, April 16, 2026 at 2:45 AM UTC\"<div>PHILADELPHIA,<\/p>\n

PHILADELPHIA, PA – APRIL 15: Desmond Bane #3 of the Orlando Magic dribbles the ball during the game against the Philadelphia 76ers during the SoFi Play-In Tournament on April 15, 2026 at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Photo by Jesse D. Garrabrant\/NBAE via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

The Brief<\/p>\n

The Orlando Magic lost to the Philadelphia 76ers, 109-97, during Wednesday’s play-in game.<\/p>\n

That means the Magic will host the Charlotte Hornets on Friday night in a must-win game if they want to make the playoffs.<\/p>\n

The Orlando Magic have one more shot to make the playoffs on Friday night against the Charlotte Hornets.<\/p>\n

The Magic lost Wednesday night, 109-97, to the Philadelphia 76ers. That forces the Magic to host the Hornets at home, a must-win game to move on to the playoffs.<\/p>\n

If the Magic loses, they’re done for the season.<\/p>\n

If the Magic wins, they go on to play the Detroit Pistons.<\/p>\n

When does Friday’s game start? Are tickets still available?<\/p>\n

Friday night’s game starts at 7:30 p.m. at the Kia Center in downtown Orlando. As of Wednesday night, tickets were still available, starting at $35.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thu, April 16, 2026 at 2:45 AM UTC PHILADELPHIA, PA – APRIL 15: Desmond Bane #3 of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":711647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3769],"tags":[679,7,473,497,188,6,76,2361,678,207,3817,401],"class_list":{"0":"post-711646","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-charlotte-hornets","11":"tag-desmond-bane","12":"tag-detroit-pistons","13":"tag-nba","14":"tag-orlando-magic","15":"tag-pa","16":"tag-philadelphia","17":"tag-philadelphia-76ers","18":"tag-philadelphia76ers","19":"tag-the-magic"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711646","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=711646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/711647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}