{"id":407298,"date":"2026-01-12T01:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T01:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/407298\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T01:16:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T01:16:10","slug":"magic-128-118-pelicans-12-jan-2026-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/407298\/","title":{"rendered":"Magic 128-118 Pelicans (12 Jan, 2026) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

ORLANDO, Fla. — \u2014 Paulo Banchero had 23 points, eight rebounds and eight assists, Desmond Bane<\/a> added 27 points and Orlando beat the New Orleans Pelicans<\/a> 128-118 on Sunday in Magic center Moritz Wagner<\/a>‘s return from a serious knee injury.<\/p>\n

Wagner missed more than a year after tearing his left ACL, last playing Dec. 21, 2024. He had eight points and two rebounds in 10 minutes Sunday in the Magic’s last game before their two-game series against Memphis in Berlin and London.<\/p>\n

Zion Williamson<\/a> led New Orleans with 22 points, and Trey Murphy III<\/a> and Jordan Poole<\/a> added 21 each. The Pelicans have lost 10 of 11.<\/p>\n

Anthony Black<\/a> added 26 points, seven assists and three steals for the Magic. Goga Bitadze<\/a> had 14 points, 13 rebounds and three steals in his first start of the season at center. Bitadze replaced Wendell Carter Jr<\/a>., who had a back strain.<\/p>\n

Since losing to New York in the NBA Cup semifinals on Dec. 13, the Magic have followed losses with wins seven straight times.<\/p>\n

Up next <\/p>\n

Pelicans: Host Denver on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

Magic: Play Memphis on Thursday night in Berlin and Sunday in London.<\/p>\n

——<\/p>\n

AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. — \u2014 Paulo Banchero had 23 points, eight rebounds and eight assists, Desmond Bane added 27…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407299,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-407298","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\/407298","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=407298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}