{"id":440210,"date":"2026-01-29T05:49:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T05:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/440210\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T05:49:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T05:49:07","slug":"paolo-banchero-and-anthony-black-lead-orlando-magic-past-miami-heat-to-snap-four-game-skid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/440210\/","title":{"rendered":"Paolo Banchero and Anthony Black lead Orlando Magic past Miami Heat to snap four-game skid"},"content":{"rendered":"

MIAMI (AP) \u2014 Paolo Banchero<\/a> had 31 points and 12 rebounds, Anthony Black<\/a> scored 26 points and the Orlando Magic<\/a> beat the Miami Heat<\/a> 133-124 on Wednesday night to snap a four-game skid.<\/p>\n

Desmond Bane<\/a> finished with 23 points on 10-of-16 shooting and Jalen Suggs<\/a> scored 16 for the Magic, who are 3-0 against the Heat this season.<\/p>\n

Simone Fontecchio<\/a> scored 23 points in 19 minutes for the Heat. Norman Powell<\/a> added 22 points and Bam Adebayo<\/a> had 21.<\/p>\n

Franz Wagner<\/a> (left ankle sprain) missed his fourth straight game for the Magic while Miami was without Tyler Herro<\/a> (ribs) and Davion Mitchell<\/a> (shoulder).<\/p>\n

The start of the game was delayed by seven minutes because one of the rims was uneven.<\/p>\n

The Magic went on a 14-0 run in the fourth quarter and led 121-104 with 5:47 remaining before the Heat rallied and got within 128-122 on Powell\u2019s three-point play with 1:25 left. Banchero and Suggs made two free throws each in the final minute to secure the win.<\/p>\n

Orlando finished with 36 assists and shot 16 of 38 from 3-point range.<\/p>\n

Down nine at halftime, the Magic outscored the Heat 40-20 in the third period behind 13 points from Banchero and 10 from Black. Orlando forced seven turnovers and had a 7-1 advantage in offensive rebounds in the quarter.<\/p>\n

Miami erased a 14-point deficit late in the first quarter and outscored Orlando by 16 in the second to lead 68-59 at the break. Fontecchio scored 14 points, including three 3-pointers, in the second.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Magic: Host Toronto on Friday.<\/p>\n

Heat: At Chicago on Thursday in a game rescheduled from Jan. 8, when unplayable court conditions at United Center forced a postponement. It\u2019s the first of three games against the Bulls in a four-day span.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba<\/p>\n

The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI (AP) \u2014 Paolo Banchero had 31 points and 12 rebounds, Anthony Black scored 26 points and the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-440210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440210","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=440210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}