{"id":19990,"date":"2025-10-25T06:50:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T06:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/19990\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T06:50:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T06:50:09","slug":"orlando-and-chicago-square-off-for-conference-showdown-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/19990\/","title":{"rendered":"Orlando and Chicago square off for conference showdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago Bulls (1-0, fourth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Orlando Magic (1-1, eighth in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n<p>Orlando, Florida; Saturday, 7 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/betmgm.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Magic -5.5; over\/under is 232.5<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>BOTTOM LINE: Chicago takes on Orlando for an Eastern Conference matchup.<\/p>\n<p>Orlando finished 41-41 overall, 31-21 in Eastern Conference play and 22-19 at home during the 2024-25 season. The Magic averaged 105.4 points per game while allowing opponents to score 105.5 last season.<\/p>\n<p>Chicago went 39-43 overall and 28-24 in Eastern Conference games during the 2024-25 season. The Bulls shot 47.0% from the field and 36.7% from 3-point range last season.<\/p>\n<p>INJURIES: Magic: Moritz Wagner: out (knee).<\/p>\n<p>Bulls: Coby White: out (calf), Zach Collins: out (wrist).<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dataskrive.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Data Skrive;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Data Skrive<\/a> and data from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportradar.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Sportradar;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chicago Bulls (1-0, fourth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Orlando Magic (1-1, eighth in the Eastern Conference) Orlando,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":919,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[5826,16200,16197,28,16198,139,141,1239,140,16199],"class_list":{"0":"post-19990","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando","8":"tag-chicago-bulls","9":"tag-coby-white","10":"tag-eastern-conference","11":"tag-florida","12":"tag-moritz-wagner","13":"tag-orlando","14":"tag-orlando-headlines","15":"tag-orlando-magic","16":"tag-orlando-news","17":"tag-zach-collins"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19990","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=19990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}