{"id":541374,"date":"2026-03-17T02:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T02:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/541374\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T02:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T02:11:08","slug":"canadas-alexander-walker-scores-career-high-41-as-hawks-top-magic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/541374\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s Alexander-Walker scores career-high 41 as Hawks top Magic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ATLANTA  \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/players\/nickeil-alexander-walker\/d3d0ab55-b939-47b3-af27-77cdf85d7956\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"d3d0ab55-b939-47b3-af27-77cdf85d7956\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Nickeil Alexander-Walker<\/a> scored a career-high 41 points, Jalen Johnson had his 13th triple-double of the season and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/atlanta-hawks\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"atlanta-hawks\" data-league=\"nba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Atlanta Hawks<\/a> rolled past the Magic 124-112 on Monday night, extending\u00a0their winning streak\u00a0to 10 games and snapping Orlando&#8217;s at seven.<\/p>\n<p>The Hawks improved to 38-31 and reclaimed eighth place in the Eastern Conference, bumping Philadelphia back to ninth.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson had 24 points, 15 rebounds and 13 assists in his second straight triple-double. Dyson Daniels added 15 points and 12 rebounds.<\/p>\n<p>Alexander-Walker scored 24 points in the first half, helping Atlanta to a 67-50 lead at halftime. Alexander-Walker&#8217;s previous career high was 38 points against the Spurs earlier this season.<\/p>\n<p>The Hawks kept momentum rolling after the intermission, scoring 23 points in the first 5:12 of the third quarter to extend their lead to 29 points. The Hawks totalled 37 points in the period and led 104-83 at the start of the fourth.<\/p>\n<p>Orlando cut the deficit to 12 points with 3 1\/2 minutes remaining before Atlanta put the game back out of reach.<\/p>\n<p>Paolo Banchero had 18 points and 10 rebounds for the Magic. Desmond Bane also added 18 points.<\/p>\n<p>The Magic were without Anthony Black (left lateral abdominal strain), Jonathan Isaac (left knee sprain) and Franz Wagner (left high ankle sprain; injury management).<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Kuminga was available for just his fifth game since joining Atlanta in February while dealing with a bone bruise. Kuminga added seven points and eight rebounds.<\/p>\n<p>Magic: Host the Thunder on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Hawks: Visit Dallas on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ATLANTA \u2014 Nickeil Alexander-Walker scored a career-high 41 points, Jalen Johnson had his 13th triple-double of the season&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":541375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-541374","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\/541374","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=541374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}