Orlando Magic (39-34, ninth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Toronto Raptors (41-32, fifth in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
Toronto; Sunday, 6 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Orlando travels to Toronto looking to stop its three-game road skid.<\/p>\n
The Raptors have gone 29-16 against Eastern Conference opponents. Toronto averages 114.0 points and has outscored opponents by 1.7 points per game.<\/p>\n
The Magic are 24-23 against conference opponents. Orlando is 15-17 in games decided by 10 points or more.<\/p>\n
The Raptors’ 11.5 made 3-pointers per game this season are just 0.4 fewer made shots on average than the 11.9 per game the Magic allow. The Magic are shooting 46.4% from the field, 0.3% lower than the 46.7% the Raptors’ opponents have shot this season.<\/p>\n
The teams play for the third time this season. In the last matchup on Jan. 31 the Magic won 130-120 led by 32 points from Desmond Bane, while Brandon Ingram scored 35 points for the Raptors.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Scottie Barnes is averaging 18.5 points, 7.8 rebounds, 5.6 assists and 1.5 blocks for the Raptors. RJ Barrett is averaging 20.1 points and 5.1 rebounds over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Bane is scoring 20.4 points per game and averaging 4.2 rebounds for the Magic. Tristan da Silva is averaging 2.0 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Raptors: 5-5, averaging 115.9 points, 40.5 rebounds, 29.7 assists, 8.9 steals and 5.5 blocks per game while shooting 49.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 116.0 points per game.<\/p>\n
Magic: 4-6, averaging 119.8 points, 40.8 rebounds, 25.5 assists, 7.4 steals and 2.7 blocks per game while shooting 46.7% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 122.3 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Raptors: Immanuel Quickley: out (foot), Trayce Jackson-Davis: out (knee), Collin Murray-Boyles: day to day (back).<\/p>\n
Magic: Franz Wagner: out (ankle), Anthony Black: out (abdomen), Jonathan Isaac: out (knee).<\/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":"By The Associated Press Orlando Magic (39-34, ninth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Toronto Raptors (41-32, fifth in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,141,140],"class_list":["post-210015","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\/210015","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=210015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}