{"id":712483,"date":"2026-04-17T14:09:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T14:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/712483\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T14:09:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T14:09:35","slug":"orlando-and-charlotte-meet-in-play-in-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/712483\/","title":{"rendered":"Orlando and Charlotte meet in play-in game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">ORLANDO, F.L. (FOX Carolina) &#8211; Charlotte Hornets (44-38, ninth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Orlando Magic (45-37, eighth in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Orlando, Florida; Friday, 7:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">LINE: Hornets -3.5; over\/under is 218<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">PLAY-IN GAME: The Magic and Hornets square off to decide the eighth seed in the Eastern Conference.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">BOTTOM LINE: The Orlando Magic and the Charlotte Hornets take the court for the NBA Playoffs Play-In Tournament. The winner claims the eighth seed in the Eastern Conference Playoffs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Magic are 26-26 against Eastern Conference opponents. Orlando is 20-26 against opponents with a winning record.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Hornets are 11-5 against the rest of their division. Charlotte is seventh in the Eastern Conference scoring 116.0 points per game and is shooting 46.0%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Magic are shooting 46.4% from the field this season, 0.3 percentage points lower than the 46.7% the Hornets allow to opponents. The Hornets are shooting 46.0% from the field, 1.6% lower than the 47.6% the Magic\u2019s opponents have shot this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Feel more informed, prepared, and connected with FOX Carolina. For more free content like this, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxcarolina.com\/page\/apps\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.foxcarolina.com\/page\/apps\/\">download our apps<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WHNS. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, F.L. (FOX Carolina) &#8211; Charlotte Hornets (44-38, ninth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Orlando Magic (45-37, eighth&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":712484,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3779],"tags":[7,966,48,6,47,76,3883],"class_list":{"0":"post-712483","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando-magic","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-lamelo-ball","10":"tag-magic","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-orlando","13":"tag-orlando-magic","14":"tag-orlandomagic"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116420448742835350","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712483","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=712483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/712484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}