{"id":521421,"date":"2026-03-07T23:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T23:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/521421\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T23:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T23:52:09","slug":"paolo-banchero-desmond-bane-combine-for-55-points-orlando-magic-beat-minnesota-timberwolves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/521421\/","title":{"rendered":"Paolo Banchero, Desmond Bane combine for 55 points, Orlando Magic beat Minnesota Timberwolves"},"content":{"rendered":"

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) \u2014 Desmond Bane<\/a> scored 30 points, Paolo Banchero<\/a> added 25 points and 15 rebounds, and the Orlando Magic<\/a> won their third straight game by beating the Minnesota Timberwolves<\/a> 119-92 on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Jalen Suggs<\/a> added 14 points and Tristan da Silva<\/a> had 11 points for the Magic, who moved atop the Southeast Division.<\/p>\n

Anthony Edwards<\/a> scored 34 points, including 13 of 14 from the free-throw line, but Minnesota had it\u2019s five-game winning streak snapped.<\/p>\n

Julius Randle<\/a> scored 14 points and grabbed a team-high nine rebounds for the Timberwolves, Naz Reid<\/a> added 13 points off the bench, and Rudy Gobert<\/a> added 12 points.<\/p>\n

Minnesota shot just 35.7% in scoring its second-fewest points of the season. Starters Donte DiVincenzo<\/a> and Jaden McDaniels<\/a> were a combined 0 for 15.<\/p>\n

Bane was 10 of 17 from the field and made all 10 free throws for his 11th 30-plus point game of the season. Banchero made 10 of 18 shots.<\/p>\n

Jett Howard<\/a> had five points and Bane, Wendell Carter Jr.<\/a> and Suggs each added four during a 17-4 Magic run for an 81-61 lead midway through the third quarter.<\/p>\n

Edwards had seven points in a 68-second span and Randle followed with a steal and dunk to key a surge to get Minnesota within 90-78 entering the final quarter, but Orlando scored seven of the first eight fourth-quarter points to push the lead back to 18.<\/p>\n

Orlando, 5-2 in its past seven games, finished the first half on a 19-2 run, including 14 straight points, for a 60-50 lead.<\/p>\n

Magic starting guard Anthony Black<\/a>, averaging 15.5 points per game, played just two minutes in the first quarter before leaving with a lower back strain. He missed two games with a right quad contusion before returning Thursday.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Magic: At Milwaukee Sunday.<\/p>\n

Timberwolves: Begin a four-game road trip on Tuesday at the Los Angeles Lakers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

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

Mike Cook, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MINNEAPOLIS (AP) \u2014 Desmond Bane scored 30 points, Paolo Banchero added 25 points and 15 rebounds, and the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":521422,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-521421","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\/521421","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=521421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}