{"id":224335,"date":"2026-04-09T03:11:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T03:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/224335\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T03:11:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T03:11:18","slug":"magic-beat-timberwolves-132-120-as-paolo-banchero-scores-20-and-orlando-wins-4th-straight-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/224335\/","title":{"rendered":"Magic beat Timberwolves 132-120 as Paolo Banchero scores 20 and Orlando wins 4th straight"},"content":{"rendered":"

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Paolo Banchero<\/a> had 20 points and eight rebounds, Desmond Bane<\/a> added 18 points and six assists and the Orlando Magic<\/a> beat the Minnesota Timberwolves<\/a> 132-120 on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

Franz Wagner<\/a> scored 17 points and Goga Bitadze<\/a> came off the bench with 14 points and 15 rebounds for the Magic, who have won four straight.<\/p>\n

The win pulled the Magic (44-36) up to seventh place in the tight race for playoff\/play-in positions. With two road games remaining (Chicago on Friday and Boston on Sunday), they could finish anywhere between six and ninth in the Eastern Conference.<\/p>\n

Terrence Shannon Jr.<\/a> led the Timberwolves with a career-high 33 points. Jaden McDaniels<\/a>, back in the lineup after missing six games with a left knee injury, added 18 points in 19 minutes.<\/p>\n

The Timberwolves, who have lost five of seven, played without Anthony Edwards<\/a> (right knee injury) and four players who started Tuesday night\u2019s win at Indiana that clinched their Western Conference playoff spot.<\/p>\n

Julius Randle<\/a> missed his first game of the season and Rudy Gobert<\/a> missed his fifth. <\/p>\n

Wagner scored twice to help Orlando break away from a 47-47 tie to a 63-53 halftime lead. Jalen Suggs<\/a> hit a couple of 3-pointers and a layup on a 22-6 burst that broke the game open in the third quarter. The Magic led by 24 at one point.<\/p>\n

Shannon scored 29 points in the second half, hitting five of seven 3-point shots. He made 11 of 14 shots overall and also had five assists.<\/p>\n

The Magic shot 53.7% overall in their home finale.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Timberwolves: At Houston on Friday night.<\/p>\n

Magic: At Chicago on Friday night.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP NBA<\/a>: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Paolo Banchero had 20 points and eight rebounds, Desmond Bane added 18 points and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[9807,5798,71378,5819,5833,101425,5803,85385,5840,16489,139,141,1239,140,5799,101424,101423],"class_list":{"0":"post-224335","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando","8":"tag-anthony-edwards","9":"tag-desmond-bane","10":"tag-event_recap","11":"tag-franz-wagner","12":"tag-goga-bitadze","13":"tag-jaden-mcdaniels","14":"tag-jalen-suggs","15":"tag-julius-randle","16":"tag-minnesota-timberwolves","17":"tag-national-basketball-association","18":"tag-orlando","19":"tag-orlando-headlines","20":"tag-orlando-magic","21":"tag-orlando-news","22":"tag-paolo-banchero","23":"tag-rudy-gobert","24":"tag-terrence-shannon-jr"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224335","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=224335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}