{"id":229537,"date":"2025-10-21T08:51:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T08:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/229537\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T08:51:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T08:51:11","slug":"magic-open-season-at-home-against-the-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/229537\/","title":{"rendered":"Magic open season at home against the Heat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-7979a9d5=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/miami-heat-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Miami Heat<\/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-7979a9d5=\"\">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-7979a9d5=\"\">BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Magic -8; over\/under is 215.5<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-7979a9d5=\"\">BOTTOM LINE: The Orlando Magic begin the season at home against the Miami Heat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-7979a9d5=\"\">Orlando went 41-41 overall, 31-21 in Eastern Conference games and 22-19 at home during the 2024-25 season. The Magic averaged 105.4 points per game while shooting 44.5% from the field and 31.8% from 3-point distance last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-7979a9d5=\"\">Miami went 37-45 overall, 10-6 in Southeast Division action and 18-23 on the road last season. The Heat gave up 110.0 points per game while committing 15.5 fouls last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-7979a9d5=\"\">INJURIES: Magic: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/moritz-wagner-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Moritz Wagner<\/a>: out (knee).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-7979a9d5=\"\">Heat: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/terry-rozier-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Terry Rozier<\/a>: out (hamstring), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/tyler-herro-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tyler Herro<\/a>: out (ankle).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-7979a9d5=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-7979a9d5=\"\">The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miami Heat vs. Orlando Magic Orlando, Florida; Wednesday, 7 p.m. EDT BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Magic -8; over\/under is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-229537","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}