{"id":353949,"date":"2025-12-17T13:19:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T13:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/353949\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T13:19:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T13:19:08","slug":"nuggets-face-the-magic-on-5-game-win-streak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/353949\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuggets face the Magic on 5-game win streak"},"content":{"rendered":"

Orlando Magic<\/a> (15-11, fifth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Denver Nuggets<\/a> (19-6, second in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n

Denver; Thursday, 9 p.m. EST<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Denver comes into a matchup against Orlando as winners of five games in a row.<\/p>\n

The Nuggets are 7-4 in home games. Denver is eighth in the Western Conference at limiting opponent scoring, giving up just 116.2 points while holding opponents to 46.6% shooting.<\/p>\n

The Magic are 5-6 in road games. Orlando is fifth in the Eastern Conference allowing just 114.1 points while holding opponents to 47.6% shooting.<\/p>\n

The Nuggets make 51.6% of their shots from the field this season, which is 4.0 percentage points higher than the Magic have allowed to their opponents (47.6%). The Magic average 11.4 made 3-pointers per game this season, 1.6 fewer made shots on average than the 13.0 per game the Nuggets give up.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Peyton Watson<\/a> is scoring 10.5 points per game and averaging 4.8 rebounds for the Nuggets. Nikola Jokic<\/a> is averaging 39.0 points and 15.0 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Anthony Black<\/a> is scoring 13.0 points per game and averaging 4.0 rebounds for the Magic. Jase Richardson<\/a> is averaging 2.0 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Nuggets: 7-3, averaging 128.3 points, 41.4 rebounds, 29.9 assists, 6.0 steals and 3.9 blocks per game while shooting 52.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 121.4 points per game.<\/p>\n

Magic: 6-4, averaging 119.8 points, 44.3 rebounds, 27.0 assists, 8.2 steals and 4.7 blocks per game while shooting 46.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 115.6 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Nuggets: Christian Braun: out (ankle), Aaron Gordon: out (hamstring).<\/p>\n

Magic: Franz Wagner<\/a>: out (leg), Moritz Wagner: out (knee), Jalen Suggs<\/a>: out (hip), Colin Castleton<\/a>: day to day (thumb).<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Orlando Magic (15-11, fifth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Denver Nuggets (19-6, second in the Western Conference) Denver;…\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":["post-353949","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\/353949","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=353949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353949\/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=353949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}