Orlando Magic (25-22, seventh in the Eastern Conference) vs. San Antonio Spurs (32-16, third in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
San Antonio; Sunday, 4 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Orlando Magic visit the San Antonio Spurs in non-conference play.<\/p>\n
The Spurs are 16-6 on their home court. San Antonio has a 6-4 record in games decided by 3 points or fewer.<\/p>\n
The Magic are 10-13 on the road. Orlando is 9-13 in games decided by at least 10 points.<\/p>\n
The Spurs average 117.0 points per game, 1.3 more points than the 115.7 the Magic allow. The Magic average 11.3 made 3-pointers per game this season, 1.8 fewer made shots on average than the 13.1 per game the Spurs allow.<\/p>\n
The teams play for the second time this season. The Spurs won the last meeting 114-112 on Dec. 4. De’Aaron Fox scored 31 points to help lead the Spurs to the victory.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Victor Wembanyama is averaging 24.1 points, 11.1 rebounds and 2.6 blocks for the Spurs. Fox is averaging 16.9 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Desmond Bane is averaging 19.3 points and 4.3 assists for the Magic. Anthony Black is averaging 2.4 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Spurs: 5-5, averaging 111.3 points, 43.6 rebounds, 26.5 assists, 6.1 steals and 5.8 blocks per game while shooting 46.3% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 109.1 points per game.<\/p>\n
Magic: 5-5, averaging 111.3 points, 41.9 rebounds, 26.5 assists, 8.5 steals and 4.9 blocks per game while shooting 44.7% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 116.2 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Spurs: Jeremy Sochan: day to day (quad).<\/p>\n
Magic: Franz Wagner: out (ankle), Colin Castleton: out (thumb).<\/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":"Orlando Magic (25-22, seventh in the Eastern Conference) vs. San Antonio Spurs (32-16, third in the Western Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2206,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[67896,1111,14596,139,141,140,110],"class_list":{"0":"post-139491","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando","8":"tag-67896","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-nba-basketball","11":"tag-orlando","12":"tag-orlando-headlines","13":"tag-orlando-news","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139491","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=139491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139491\/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=139491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}