{"id":611539,"date":"2026-04-18T03:01:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T03:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/611539\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T03:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T03:01:09","slug":"orlando-magic-rout-charlotte-hornets-in-play-in-game-advance-to-face-detroit-pistons-in-first-round-of-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/611539\/","title":{"rendered":"Orlando Magic rout Charlotte Hornets in play-in game, advance to face Detroit Pistons in first round of playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Paolo Banchero scored 25 points and the Orlando Magic built a 35-point lead in the first half on the way to a 121-90 rout of Charlotte Hornets in a play-in tournament game on Friday night and advanced to a first-round playoff matchup against the Detroit Pistons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Magic earned the No. 8 seed in playoffs and will start their best-of-seven series at Detroit on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">LaMelo Ball scored 21 of his 23 points in the third quarter for Charlotte.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Banchero had 12 points and Wendell Carter Jr. added 10 as the Hornets shot 5 for 20 with six turnovers in the first quarter and fell behind 38-16.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Ball was scoreless with two turnovers when he went to the bench with three fouls with 7:10 left in the first half. He did not score until Orlando\u2019s lead had reached 35 points in the final seconds of the half.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Magic were eliminated in the first round of the playoffs in each of the last two postseasons and have not won a playoff round since 2010.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Hornets, who beat the Magic in their last three regular-season games, have not been in rhe playoffs since 2016.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/nba<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Dick Scanlon, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Paolo Banchero scored 25 points and the Orlando Magic built a 35-point lead in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":611540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-611539","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\/611539","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=611539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/611540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}