{"id":188247,"date":"2026-03-12T04:55:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T04:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/188247\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T04:55:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T04:55:11","slug":"wizards-at-magic-preview-washington-closes-florida-trip-against-orlando","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/188247\/","title":{"rendered":"Wizards at Magic preview: Washington closes Florida trip against Orlando"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">The Washington Wizards take on an undermanned Orlando Magic team on Tuesday at Kia Center to close out the Florida leg of their four-game road trip.<\/p>\n<p>Game info<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">When:\u00a0Thursday, Mar. 12 at 7:00 p.m. ET<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Where:\u00a0Kia Center, Orlando, Florida<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">How to watch:\u00a0Monumental Sports Network, League Pass<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Injuries:\u00a0For the Wizards, Kyshawn George (elbow), Jamir Watkins (ankle), Anthony Davis (hand, groin), Cam Whitmore (shoulder), and D\u2019Angelo Russell (not with team) are out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">For the Magic, Jase Richardson (back) and Jonathan Isaac (knee) are questionable, while Franz Wagner (ankle) and Anthony Black (abdominal) are out.<\/p>\n<p>What to watch for<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Wizards will try their best to wash away the stench of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bulletsforever.com\/washington-wizards-statistical-analysis\/68592\/wilt-kobebam-adebayo-chisels-his-name-into-the-record-book\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:83-point game they gave up to Bam Adebayo;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;83-point game they gave up to Bam Adebayo&quot;}\" class=\"link \">83-point game they gave up to Bam Adebayo<\/a> in their Tuesday tilt against the Miami Heat. The Magic will be without key pieces such as Franz Wagner and Anthony Black, but the Wiz may need to be wary of Wendell Carter Jr. going off for a career night.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Kidding aside, the Magic enter the contest on a four-game winning streak and desperately need a victory after getting passed by the Heat for the sixth seed in the East. After getting a rest day on Tuesday, Trae Young is expected to be back in action for his third game in a Wizards uniform.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">For the tank watchers out there, the 16-48 Wizards made up some ground in the race to the bottom as both the Sacramento Kings (16-50) and Brooklyn Nets (17-48) picked up victories over the last couple of days. Only the Indiana Pacers currently have fewer wins than Washington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Washington Wizards take on an undermanned Orlando Magic team on Tuesday at Kia Center to close out&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188248,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[5815,15312,15960,5832,83278,47,5819,4375,5830,88260,5802,35695,83275,2490,139,141,1239,140,5843,88259,22388,5848,5813],"class_list":{"0":"post-188247","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando","8":"tag-anthony-black","9":"tag-anthony-davis","10":"tag-bam-adebayo","11":"tag-brooklyn-nets","12":"tag-cam-whitmore","13":"tag-fl","14":"tag-franz-wagner","15":"tag-getty-images","16":"tag-indiana-pacers","17":"tag-jamir-watkins","18":"tag-jase-richardson","19":"tag-jonathan-isaac","20":"tag-kyshawn-george","21":"tag-miami-heat","22":"tag-orlando","23":"tag-orlando-headlines","24":"tag-orlando-magic","25":"tag-orlando-news","26":"tag-sacramento-kings","27":"tag-sharife-cooper","28":"tag-trae-young","29":"tag-washington-wizards","30":"tag-wendell-carter-jr"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188247","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=188247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}