{"id":177497,"date":"2026-03-04T07:59:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T07:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/177497\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T07:59:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T07:59:18","slug":"dallas-faces-orlando-on-4-game-skid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/177497\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas faces Orlando on 4-game skid"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dallas Mavericks<\/a> (21-40, 12th in the Western Conference) vs. Orlando Magic<\/a> (32-28, seventh in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n

Orlando, Florida; Thursday, 7 p.m. EST<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Dallas aims to end its four-game losing streak with a victory over Orlando.<\/p>\n

The Magic have gone 19-12 in home games. Orlando is ninth in the Eastern Conference with 32.3 defensive rebounds per game led by Paolo Banchero<\/a> averaging 7.3.<\/p>\n

The Mavericks are 7-21 on the road. Dallas is fourth in the league scoring 53.7 points per game in the paint led by Cooper Flagg<\/a> averaging 10.9.<\/p>\n

The Magic are shooting 46.2% from the field this season, 0.7 percentage points lower than the 46.9% the Mavericks allow to opponents. The Mavericks average 113.5 points per game, 0.9 fewer than the 114.4 the Magic allow to opponents.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Banchero is scoring 22.1 points per game with 8.4 rebounds and 5.0 assists for the Magic. Desmond Bane<\/a> is averaging 25.9 points and 3.4 rebounds while shooting 59.3% over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Max Christie<\/a> is shooting 45.9% and averaging 13.2 points for the Mavericks. P.J. Washington<\/a> is averaging 1.0 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Magic: 6-4, averaging 113.4 points, 41.5 rebounds, 26.5 assists, 9.6 steals and 5.7 blocks per game while shooting 45.7% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 108.5 points per game.<\/p>\n

Mavericks: 2-8, averaging 111.1 points, 42.4 rebounds, 23.7 assists, 7.1 steals and 3.1 blocks per game while shooting 47.0% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 121.9 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Magic: Franz Wagner<\/a>: out (ankle), Anthony Black<\/a>: day to day (quadriceps), Wendell Carter<\/a> Jr.: day to day (ankle), Colin Castleton<\/a>: out (thumb).<\/p>\n

Mavericks: Naji Marshall: day to day (finger), Dereck Lively II: out for season (foot), Klay Thompson: day to day (adductor), Kyrie Irving<\/a>: out for season (knee), Cooper Flagg: day to day (foot), Marvin Bagley III<\/a>: out (neck).<\/p>\n

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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dallas Mavericks (21-40, 12th in the Western Conference) vs. Orlando Magic (32-28, seventh in the Eastern Conference) Orlando,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[5815,9254,66667,5828,5798,70652,5819,83927,83926,83924,16489,139,141,1239,140,83925,5799,5813],"class_list":{"0":"post-177497","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando","8":"tag-anthony-black","9":"tag-colin-castleton","10":"tag-cooper-flagg","11":"tag-dallas-mavericks","12":"tag-desmond-bane","13":"tag-event_preview","14":"tag-franz-wagner","15":"tag-kyrie-irving","16":"tag-marvin-bagley-iii","17":"tag-max-christie","18":"tag-national-basketball-association","19":"tag-orlando","20":"tag-orlando-headlines","21":"tag-orlando-magic","22":"tag-orlando-news","23":"tag-p-j-washington","24":"tag-paolo-banchero","25":"tag-wendell-carter-jr"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177497","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=177497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}