{"id":338531,"date":"2025-12-10T03:07:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T03:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/338531\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T03:07:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T03:07:07","slug":"magic-star-desmond-bane-scores-37-in-nba-cup-win-over-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/338531\/","title":{"rendered":"Magic star Desmond Bane scores 37 in NBA Cup win over Heat"},"content":{"rendered":"

ORLANDO, Fla. — Desmond Bane<\/a> matched his season high with 37 points and the Orlando Magic<\/a> advanced to the NBA Cup semifinals with a 117-108<\/a> victory over the Miami Heat<\/a> on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

Jalen Suggs<\/a> scored 20 points and Paolo Banchero<\/a> had 18 points and seven rebounds for the Magic, who will play New York or Toronto on Saturday in the semifinals in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

Norman Powell<\/a> led Miami with 21 points. Tyler Herro<\/a> added 20 and Bam Adebayo<\/a> and Andrew Wiggins<\/a> each had 19 for the Heat, who have lost three times in Orlando this season.<\/p>\n

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Bane hit two 3-pointers and scored on a three-point play in the first 2:06 of the fourth quarter, stretching the Magic’s six-point lead to 13. The Heat never got the margin under nine until the final minute.<\/p>\n

The Magic played for the first time this season without Franz Wagner<\/a>, who is expected to be out several weeks because of a high ankle sprain.<\/p>\n

The Heat made their first six shots and led 15-0 when Herro drove for a layup less than three minutes into the game. But Miami went cold and finished the game 8-for-33 (24.2%) from 3-point range. Herro missed all six of his 3-point attempts, including an open shot that could have cut the margin to four with 37 seconds left.<\/p>\n

Bane made 6 of 9 3-pointers and the Magic shot 15-for-32 (46.9%).<\/p>\n

The Associated Press contributed to this report. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. — Desmond Bane matched his season high with 37 points and the Orlando Magic advanced to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338532,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-338531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338531","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=338531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}