{"id":863435,"date":"2026-10-20T07:27:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T07:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/863435\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T07:27:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T07:27:14","slug":"magic-open-season-at-home-against-the-hawks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/863435\/","title":{"rendered":"Magic open season at home against the Hawks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Associated Press<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/atlanta-hawks-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Atlanta Hawks<\/a> vs. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/orlando-magic-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Orlando Magic<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">Orlando, Florida; Wednesday, 7 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">LINE: Magic -2.5; over\/under is 234.5<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">BOTTOM LINE: The Orlando Magic open the season at home against the Atlanta Hawks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">Orlando went 45-37 overall, 9-8 in Southeast Division action and 26-16 at home last season. The Magic averaged 115.7 points per game while allowing opponents to score 115.1 last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">Atlanta finished 46-36 overall, 9-7 in Southeast Division action and 22-19 on the road last season. The Hawks allowed opponents to score 116.0 points per game and shoot 47.4% from the field last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">INJURIES: Magic: Noah Penda: out (hamstring), Jase Richardson: day to day (back), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/franz-wagner-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Franz Wagner<\/a>: day to day (shoulder).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">Hawks: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/henri-veesaar-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Henri Veesaar<\/a>: out for season (acl), Mouhamed Gueye: out (foot).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Associated Press Atlanta Hawks vs. Orlando Magic Orlando, Florida; Wednesday, 7 p.m. EDT LINE: Magic -2.5; over\/under is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":812178,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3779],"tags":[208,7,78812,403,1985,48,1407,6,47,76,3883],"class_list":["post-863435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando-magic","tag-atlanta-hawks","tag-basketball","tag-event_preview","tag-franz-wagner","tag-henri-veesaar","tag-magic","tag-national-basketball-association","tag-nba","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-magic","tag-orlandomagic"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/117472057316143206","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863435","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=863435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/812178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=863435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=863435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=863435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}