{"id":335669,"date":"2025-12-10T00:27:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T00:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/335669\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T00:27:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T00:27:09","slug":"nba-cup-score-and-live-updates-magic-heat-in-close-one-at-halftime-with-knicks-raptors-up-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/335669\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Cup score and live updates: Magic-Heat in close one at halftime with Knicks-Raptors up later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Heat\u2019s first quarter would be impressive against any opponent. But this is the Orlando Magic, a team who\u2019s developed a reputation as one of the stingiest defenses in the NBA under current head coach Jamahl Mosley, That\u2019s continued into this season, as the Magic\u2019s 111.8 defensive rating entering this game is tied for fifth-best in the NBA with &#8230; the Heat.<\/p>\n<p>Clearly, the absence of Franz Wagner, Orlando\u2019s leading scorer, needed some getting used to on both ends of the floor. Fortunately for Mosley\u2019s squad, the Magic defense played much more true to form in the second quarter to allow Orlando to claw back into this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Heat\u2019s first quarter would be impressive against any opponent. But this is the Orlando Magic, a team&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-335669","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}