New Orleans Pelicans (9-31, 14th in the Western Conference) vs. Orlando Magic (21-18, eighth in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
Orlando, Florida; Sunday, 3 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The New Orleans Pelicans visit the Orlando Magic in a non-conference matchup.<\/p>\n
The Magic are 12-7 in home games. Orlando is ninth in the Eastern Conference with 26.2 assists per game led by Paolo Banchero averaging 4.8.<\/p>\n
The Pelicans are 3-14 in road games. New Orleans allows 122.3 points to opponents while being outscored by 7.5 points per game.<\/p>\n
The Magic are shooting 46.6% from the field this season, 1.9 percentage points lower than the 48.5% the Pelicans allow to opponents. The Pelicans are shooting 46.2% from the field, 1.2% lower than the 47.4% the Magic’s opponents have shot this season.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Desmond Bane is averaging 19 points and 4.5 assists for the Magic. Banchero is averaging 20.6 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Trey Murphy III is averaging 21.7 points, 6.2 rebounds, 3.5 assists and 1.6 steals for the Pelicans. Jordan Poole is averaging 2.2 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Magic: 5-5, averaging 111.6 points, 43.3 rebounds, 27.2 assists, 8.0 steals and 5.0 blocks per game while shooting 45.7% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 114.3 points per game.<\/p>\n
Pelicans: 1-9, averaging 112.9 points, 43.9 rebounds, 25.0 assists, 9.1 steals and 6.1 blocks per game while shooting 45.6% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 122.5 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Magic: Franz Wagner: out (ankle), Tristan da Silva: out (back), Moritz Wagner: out (knee), Jalen Suggs: out (knee).<\/p>\n
Pelicans: Jose Alvarado: out (oblique), Dejounte Murray: out (leg), Saddiq Bey: out (hip), Herbert Jones: out (ankle).<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Orleans Pelicans (9-31, 14th in the Western Conference) vs. Orlando Magic (21-18, eighth in the Eastern Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2206,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[57451,1111,7607,14596,139,141,140,110],"class_list":{"0":"post-112916","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando","8":"tag-57451","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-athlete-injuries","11":"tag-nba-basketball","12":"tag-orlando","13":"tag-orlando-headlines","14":"tag-orlando-news","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}