WESH TWO NEWS STARTS NOW WITH BREAKING NEWS. A HISTORIC COLLAPSE AT THE KIA CENTER GAME SIX BETWEEN THE PISTONS AND THE MAGIC IS OVER. THE MAGIC LOST TO DETROIT 93 TO 79, BUT THEY WERE UP BY 22 AT HALFTIME. THE MAGIC ONLY SCORED 19 POINTS IN THE SECOND HALF TO GIVE UP THE LEAD, AND NOW HAVE TO HEAD BACK TO DETROIT FOR A MUST WIN GAME. SEVEN FANS JUST GOT OUT OF THE ARENA MINUTES AGO AFTER THE HEARTBREAKING LOSS. YOU CAN SEE IT ON THEIR FACES. YEAH. WESH 2’S HAYLEY CROMBLEHOLME LIVE OUTSIDE THE KIA CENTER. HAYLEY WE ARE WATCHING YOUR LIVE PICTURE RIGHT BEFORE THE SHOW STARTED AND THE FANS ARE COMING OUT QUIET AND DID NOT LOOK HAPPY. YEAH, QUIET UNTIL THE ONLY TIME THEY WERE REALLY VOCAL WAS WHEN TIME WE GOT SOME ENTHUSIASM OUT OF FOLKS. THEY WERE DISAPPOINTED. THEY WERE FRUSTRATED. AND YOU TALKED ABOUT THAT LEAD. THAT’S REALLY PART OF WHY THIS SEEMED TO BE SO HEARTBREAKING TONIGHT. WHAT WAS THE ENVIRONMENT IN THERE LIKE WHEN THEY WERE UP, WHEN THEY HAD THAT? OH, IT WAS VERY ELECTRIC. IT WAS VERY ELECTRIC. NOW THAT’S WHAT SEEMED TO MAKE IT ALL THE MORE CRUSHING WHEN THAT LEAD WAS ULTIMATELY BLOWN. IT’S GOING TO BE REALLY, REALLY TOUGH. THEY’RE GOING TO HAVE TO REALLY KIND OF GATHER AROUND AND KIND OF REALLY PSYCH THEMSELVES TOGETHER TO GET THIS WIN FOR GAME SEVEN, BECAUSE IT’S GOING TO BE TOUGH. YEAH, WHAT HE SAID WAS WHAT A LOT OF FANS SAID, HARD REALLY TO GET PUMPED AND EXCITED FOR THAT GAME SEVEN, BECAUSE THEY KNOW JUST HOW TOUGH IT’S GOING TO BE. BUT THE MAGIC AREN’T OUT OF THIS YET. WE’
Fans express disappointment after Orlando Magic game 6 loss
Updated: 10:57 PM EDT May 1, 2026
Orlando Magic fans expressed their disappointment Friday night after the team lost game six at the Kia Center, losing a lead and extending the series to a game seven in Detroit. “I’ve been a lifelong Magic fan since 1995,” Greg Violin said as he left the game. “This has been the most traumatic, painful season I’ve endured as a fan.” Fans described the atmosphere in the arena when the Magic held a lead earlier in the game. “It was very electric. It was very electric,” Pascal Mathieu said. Making it all the more disappointing when that lead was blown. “It was very disappointing to watch,” Mathieu said. “Especially because you get excited for the game, you see that you know you have an opportunity to go to the second round, and just to watch it like that, end like that, it’s kind of like, I don’t know. It just sucks pretty much.” The Magic will now head to Detroit for Game 7.
ORLANDO, Fla. —
Orlando Magic fans expressed their disappointment Friday night after the team lost game six at the Kia Center, losing a lead and extending the series to a game seven in Detroit.
“I’ve been a lifelong Magic fan since 1995,” Greg Violin said as he left the game. “This has been the most traumatic, painful season I’ve endured as a fan.”
Fans described the atmosphere in the arena when the Magic held a lead earlier in the game.
“It was very electric. It was very electric,” Pascal Mathieu said.
Making it all the more disappointing when that lead was blown.
“It was very disappointing to watch,” Mathieu said. “Especially because you get excited for the game, you see that you know you have an opportunity to go to the second round, and just to watch it like that, end like that, it’s kind of like, I don’t know. It just sucks pretty much.”
The Magic will now head to Detroit for Game 7.