{"id":215567,"date":"2026-04-02T04:29:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T04:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/215567\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T04:29:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T04:29:07","slug":"hawks-rout-magic-130-101-for-17th-win-in-19-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/215567\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawks rout Magic 130-101 for 17th win in 19 games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/author\/dick-scanlon\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">DICK SCANLON<\/a><\/p>\n<p>ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Nickeil Alexander-Walker scored 32 points, Jalen Johnson added 18 points and 14 rebounds, and the Atlanta Hawks routed the Orlando Magic 130-101 on Wednesday night for their 17th victory in their last 19 games.<\/p>\n<p>Dyson Daniels had 15 points and 13 rebounds for the Hawks, who shot 51% for the game and had a 52-36 rebound advantage. Johnson came two assists short of his 14th triple-double of the season.<\/p>\n<p>The Hawks swept the season series against the Magic 4-0 and now have a 3 1\/2 game lead over Orlando in the Southeast Division with five games remaining \u2014 six for Orlando.<\/p>\n<p>Jamal Cain led the Magic with 17 points off the bench. Desmond Bane and Wendell Carter Jr. added 14 points each.<\/p>\n<p>Magic forward Franz Wagner scored 12 points in 20 minutes in his first game since Feb. 11. Wagner, who averaged 23.4 points on 55% shooting in the Magic\u2019s first 23 games, has missed 47 of the last 52 games with a high ankle sprain.<\/p>\n<p>The Hawks blew the game open with a 47-point second quarter in which they made 17 of 24 shots. Jonathan Kuminga\u2019s 3-pointer broke a 32-32 tie early in the quarter and Atlanta led the rest of the game, stretching the margin to 31 early in the second half.<\/p>\n<p>Alexander-Walker scored 17 points in the period, and he was one of six players to score during a four-minute stretch in which Orlando went scoreless.<\/p>\n<p>With 7:30 remaining in the game and the Hawks up 110-89, Magic center Goga Bitadze drew a flagrant foul 2 (and automatic ejection) for pulling Hawks center Jock Landale down by the shoulder. Daniels was given a technical foul for confronting Bitadze after the takedown.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Hawks: Play at Brooklyn on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Magic: Play at Dallas on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP NBA:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By\u00a0\u00a0DICK SCANLON ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Nickeil Alexander-Walker scored 32 points, Jalen Johnson added 18 points and 14&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215568,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[2205,47,139,141,1239,140,1240,110],"class_list":{"0":"post-215567","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando","8":"tag-associated-press","9":"tag-fl","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\/215567","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=215567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}