{"id":560343,"date":"2026-03-24T04:06:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T04:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/560343\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T04:06:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T04:06:07","slug":"pacers-128-126-magic-24-mar-2026-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/560343\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacers 128-126 Magic (24 Mar, 2026) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

ORLANDO, Fla. — \u2014 Pascal Siakam<\/a> scored 37 points and blocked Paolo Banchero<\/a>‘s attempted layup in the final seconds Monday night to help the Indiana Pacers<\/a> end their franchise-record 16-game losing streak with a 128-126 win over the Orlando Magic<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Banchero scored 39 points for the Magic, who have lost five straight. <\/p>\n

Banchero drove to the basket with a chance to tie the game after Orlando won a jump ball with 6.4 seconds left. But 7-foot-1 Jay Huff<\/a> and the 6-9 Siakam were under the basket, and Banchero could not get the shot over them.<\/p>\n

Jarace Walker<\/a> had 20 points for the Pacers, and Aaron Nemith added 19. Andrew Nembhard<\/a>, who hit a 3-pointer with 1:33 remaining for Indiana’s final points, finished with 13 points, 14 assists and seven rebounds.<\/p>\n

The Pacers, who entered with a .453 field-goal percentage, third-worst in the NBA, shot 55% overall and made 16 of 35 3-point shots (45.7%) in winning for the first time since Feb. 11.<\/p>\n

Indiana grabbed a 109-97 lead early in the fourth quarter when Siakam and T.J. McConnell<\/a> scored on three combined layups in a span of 39 seconds, the third coming after McConnell’s backcourt steal.<\/p>\n

Indiana still led by 12 when Siakam hit two free throws with 3:36 left, but the Magic scored nine straight points to get back in it.<\/p>\n

Desmond Bane<\/a> had 14 of his 17 points in the second half for the Magic. He added seven assists.<\/p>\n

Magic guard Jalen Suggs<\/a> missed his 24th game of the season, this one with an illness, and guard Anthony Black<\/a> missed a ninth straight game with an abdominal strain.<\/p>\n

Up next <\/p>\n

Pacers: Play at home against the Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Magic: Play at Cleveland on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

——<\/p>\n

AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. — \u2014 Pascal Siakam scored 37 points and blocked Paolo Banchero‘s attempted layup in the final…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":560344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-560343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560343","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=560343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/560344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}