Brooklyn Nets (13-36, 13th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Orlando Magic (25-24, eighth in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
Orlando, Florida; Thursday, 7 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Eastern Conference foes Orlando and Brooklyn meet on Thursday.<\/p>\n
The Magic are 17-17 in Eastern Conference games. Orlando ranks ninth in the Eastern Conference at limiting opponent scoring, giving up only 115.9 points while holding opponents to 48.3% shooting.<\/p>\n
The Nets have gone 9-20 against Eastern Conference opponents. Brooklyn averages 14.7 turnovers per game and is 3-11 when winning the turnover battle.<\/p>\n
The Magic average 11.3 made 3-pointers per game this season, 1.2 fewer makes per game than the Nets allow (12.5). The Nets\u2019 44.3% shooting percentage from the field this season is 4.0 percentage points lower than the Magic have given up to their opponents (48.3%).<\/p>\n
The teams meet for the third time this season. The Magic won 104-103 in overtime in the last matchup on Jan. 8.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Desmond Bane is averaging 19.2 points and 4.3 assists for the Magic. Paolo Banchero is averaging 23.9 points, 8.5 rebounds and five assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Day\u2019Ron Sharpe is scoring 8.2 points per game and averaging 6.6 rebounds for the Nets. Michael Porter Jr. is averaging 16.9 points and 4.7 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Magic: 4-6, averaging 111.3 points, 39.4 rebounds, 26.1 assists, 8.4 steals and 4.1 blocks per game while shooting 44.6% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 119.6 points per game.<\/p>\n
Nets: 1-9, averaging 100.0 points, 40.9 rebounds, 24.5 assists, 6.4 steals and 3.4 blocks per game while shooting 42.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 119.3 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Magic: Franz Wagner: out (ankle), Colin Castleton: out (thumb).<\/p>\n
Nets: Haywood Highsmith: out (knee).<\/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":"Brooklyn Nets (13-36, 13th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Orlando Magic (25-24, eighth in the Eastern Conference) Orlando,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143079,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[13338,5832,9254,54256,69423,5798,1882,28,5819,69422,30816,2295,14596,20339,14594,14592,139,141,1239,140,5799,62424,110],"class_list":["post-143078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-nets","tag-colin-castleton","tag-data-skrive","tag-dayron-sharpe","tag-desmond-bane","tag-fl-state-wire","tag-florida","tag-franz-wagner","tag-haywood-highsmith","tag-michael-porter-jr","tag-nba","tag-nba-basketball","tag-new-jersey","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-magic","tag-orlando-news","tag-paolo-banchero","tag-send-to-apple-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143078","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=143078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}