{"id":183743,"date":"2026-03-09T03:28:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T03:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/183743\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T03:28:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T03:28:12","slug":"banchero-leads-magic-to-easy-130-91-win-over-bucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/183743\/","title":{"rendered":"Banchero leads Magic to easy 130-91 win over Bucks"},"content":{"rendered":"

MILWAUKEE (AP) \u2014 Paolo Banchero scored 33 points and the Orlando Magic cruised to a 130-91 win Sunday night over the Milwaukee Bucks, who\u00a0rested Giannis Antetokounmpo<\/a>\u00a0in the second game of a back-to-back.<\/p>\n

Jalen Suggs added 20 points and Desmond Bane had 18 for the Magic, who won their fourth straight to remain sixth in the Eastern Conference, one game behind fifth-place Toronto and percentage points ahead of Miami.<\/p>\n

Orlando never trailed and led 67-55 at halftime. Early in the fourth quarter, Suggs hit a 3-pointer to start a 12-0 run that extended the Magic’s lead to 26 points. Banchero headed to the bench for good late in the third with Orlando ahead by 31.<\/p>\n

Bobby Portis had 18 points and 10 rebounds and Cam Thomas scored 17 for the Bucks, who\u00a0beat Utah on Saturday night<\/a>\u00a0but have lost five of six.<\/p>\n

Antetokounmpo has played in three games since he missed 15 with a right calf strain. The 31-year-old has sat out 30 games this season, by far the most of his 13-year career.<\/p>\n

The Bucks are 11th in the East, 4 1\/2 games behind 10th-place Charlotte, and face a difficult path just to reach the play-in tournament with 19 games left.<\/p>\n

Milwaukee was also missing second-leading scorer Kevin Porter Jr. for a third straight game because of swelling in his right knee.<\/p>\n

Thanasis Antetokounmpo, Giannis’ little-used older brother, played a season-high 9 minutes and finished with four points.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Magic: Host Cleveland on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Bucks: Host Phoenix on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MILWAUKEE (AP) \u2014 Paolo Banchero scored 33 points and the Orlando Magic cruised to a 130-91 win Sunday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183744,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[2205,28,139,141,1239,140,1240,110],"class_list":{"0":"post-183743","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando","8":"tag-associated-press","9":"tag-florida","10":"tag-orlando","11":"tag-orlando-headlines","12":"tag-orlando-magic","13":"tag-orlando-news","14":"tag-professional-basketball","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183743","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=183743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}