{"id":197630,"date":"2026-03-19T11:03:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T11:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/197630\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T11:03:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T11:03:28","slug":"thunder-113-108-magic-mar-17-2026-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/197630\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunder 113-108 Magic (Mar 17, 2026) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

ORLANDO, Fla. — \u2014 Shai Gilgeous-Alexander<\/a> scored 40 points and the Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a> beat the Orlando Magic<\/a> 113-108 Tuesday night for their 10th straight win.<\/p>\n

Chet Holmgren<\/a> added 20 points and 12 rebounds for the Thunder and Ajay Mitchell<\/a> had 16 points, five of them during a mid-fourth quarter run that put the Thunder ahead to stay.<\/p>\n

Paolo Banchero<\/a> had 32 points, 10 rebounds and five assists for Orlando. Jalen Suggs<\/a> added 14 points for the Magic, who lost on a second straight night after a seven-game win streak of their own.<\/p>\n

Gilgeous-Alexander’s record 129th game scoring 20 or more points was accomplished on 14 for 27 shooting and 9 of 11 free throws. He hit 3 of 5 3-point shots, the final one giving the Thunder a 102-96 lead with 3:11 remaining.<\/p>\n

His streak of 20-plus point road games, also an NBA record, reached 61 games. <\/p>\n

Holmgren scored on three dunks and a midrange jumper while Oklahoma City opened the second quarter on a 19-5 spurt to lead 45-27, the largest lead of the game.<\/p>\n

Jevon Carter<\/a> started Orlando’s response with back-to-back 3-pointers, and Banchero opened the third quarter with a scoring burst to put the Magic up by seven points.<\/p>\n

Gilgeous-Alexander was on the bench when Mitchell scored inside to lift the Thunder to a 91-90 lead with 8:05 left. He followed with a three-point play and Isaiah Joe<\/a> added a 3-pointer.<\/p>\n

Center Isaiah Hartenstein<\/a> played his third straight scoreless game for the Thunder, finishing with seven rebounds and eight assists in 16 minutes.<\/p>\n

Up next <\/p>\n

Thunder: Play at Brooklyn on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

Magic: Play at Charlotte on Thursday night.<\/p>\n

——<\/p>\n

AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. — \u2014 Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 40 points and the Oklahoma City Thunder beat the Orlando Magic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197631,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,141,140],"class_list":["post-197630","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\/197630","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=197630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}