{"id":130957,"date":"2026-01-25T03:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T03:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/130957\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T03:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T03:33:08","slug":"donovan-mitchell-scores-36-points-in-cleveland-cavaliers-win-over-orlando-magic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/130957\/","title":{"rendered":"Donovan Mitchell scores 36 points in Cleveland Cavaliers win over Orlando Magic"},"content":{"rendered":"

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Donovan Mitchell<\/a> scored 27 of his 36 points in the second half and the Cleveland Cavaliers<\/a> pulled away to a 119-105 win over the Orlando Magic<\/a> on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

Jaylon Tyson<\/a> added 17 points for the Cavaliers and Evan Mobley<\/a> had 13 points and seven rebounds.<\/p>\n

Paolo Banchero<\/a> led the Magic with 27 points. Desmond Bane<\/a> added 20 points and Anthony Black<\/a> finished with 16 points, five rebounds and five assists.<\/p>\n

Jalen Suggs<\/a> returned after missing eight games with a bruised right knee and had 9 points and six assists in 24 minutes for Orlando.<\/p>\n

Playing without Darius Garland<\/a> (sore toe) and DeAndre Hunter (sore knee), the Cavaliers won for the fifth time in six games.<\/p>\n

After Mitchell scored on four layups and a short bank shot in the third quarter, Cleveland got 3-pointers from Lonzo Ball<\/a>, Mobley and Tyrese Proctor<\/a> in the first 3 1\/2 minutes of the fourth quarter to take a 97-79 lead, the largest of the game.<\/p>\n

Banchero hit three 3-pointers in the final period, but the Magic could get no closer than nine.<\/p>\n

Mitchell made 15 of 30 shots and had nine assists and two steals.<\/p>\n

Orlando shot 11 for 40 (27.5%) from 3-point range in losing a third straight game for the first time since October.<\/p>\n

Magic forward Franz Wagner<\/a> missed a second straight game with a sore ankle.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

The Magic and Cavaliers play again at Cleveland on Monday night.<\/p>\n

\u2014<\/p>\n

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

Dick Scanlon, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Donovan Mitchell scored 27 of his 36 points in the second half and the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,141,140,110],"class_list":{"0":"post-130957","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando","8":"tag-orlando","9":"tag-orlando-headlines","10":"tag-orlando-news","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130957","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=130957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}