{"id":171041,"date":"2026-02-27T04:40:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T04:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/171041\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T04:40:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T04:40:15","slug":"rockets-113-108-magic-feb-26-2026-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/171041\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockets 113-108 Magic (Feb 26, 2026) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ORLANDO, Fla. &#8212; \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3202\/kevin-durant\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kevin Durant<\/a> scored 26 of his season-high 40 points in the second half and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/hou\/houston-rockets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston Rockets<\/a> wiped out a 19-point Orlando lead in less than four minutes to beat the Magic 113-108 on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>              <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4711272\/reed-sheppard\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reed Sheppard<\/a> came off the Houston bench to add 20 points, hitting five 3-pointers in the second half. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4871144\/alperen-sengun\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alperen Sengun<\/a> had 16 points, six rebounds and five assists.<\/p>\n<p>              <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4066320\/desmond-bane\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Desmond Bane<\/a> led the Magic with 30 points. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4432573\/paolo-banchero\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paolo Banchero<\/a> added 19 points, nine assists and eight rebounds.<\/p>\n<p>              <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4432165\/jalen-suggs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jalen Suggs<\/a>, coming off the Magic bench for the first time this season, scored three points in 13 minutes after missing three games with back spasms.<\/p>\n<p>              Bane hit all five of his 3-point attempts in the first half, helping Orlando to a 53-43 lead.<\/p>\n<p>              The Magic led 76-57 when Banchero converted a steal by Suggs into a dunk with 5:04 left in the third quarter. The Rockets responded with a 21-0 run over the next 3 1\/2 minutes. Sheppard hit three 3-pointers and scored 11 points during the run, which left Houston with a one-point lead.<\/p>\n<p>              Three baskets by Bane helped the Magic regain a five-point lead in the middle of the fourth quarter, but Durant scored seven straight Rockets points and assisted a layup by Sengun that put Houston up for good, 101-100 with 3:07 remaining.<\/p>\n<p>              Durant made 14 of 28 shots and finished with eight rebounds and three assists.<\/p>\n<p>              The Rockets made 10 of their final 17 3-pointers after hitting one of 12 before the big rally. <\/p>\n<p>              Up next&#13;<\/p>\n<p>              Rockets: At Miami on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>              Magic: Host Detroit on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>              &#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>              AP NBA: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. &#8212; \u2014 Kevin Durant scored 26 of his season-high 40 points in the second half and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,141,140],"class_list":["post-171041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171041","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=171041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}