{"id":229256,"date":"2026-04-13T03:21:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T03:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/229256\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T03:21:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T03:21:09","slug":"shorthanded-celtics-stun-magic-drop-orlando-to-no-8-seed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/229256\/","title":{"rendered":"Shorthanded Celtics stun Magic, drop Orlando to No. 8 seed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Playing only their backups, the Boston Celtics stunned the Orlando Magic 113-108 Sunday night to drop Orlando to the No. 8 seed in the Eastern Conference.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of hosting the No. 7 versus No. 8 seed Play-In Tournament game this week, Orlando will now head to Philadelphia Wednesday night for a 7:30 tipoff. The winner locks in as the No. 7 seed and will face No. 2 Boston in the first round.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday\u2019s loser will host the Charlotte vs Miami winner on Friday night. That winner will then lock up the No. 8 seed and a matchup with No. 1 seed Detroit in the first round.<\/p>\n<p>The Magic finish the regular season with a 45-37 record.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/mobile-apps\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Click here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Click here&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Click here<\/a> to download our free news, weather and smart TV apps. And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:click here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;click here&quot;}\" class=\"link \">click here<\/a> to stream Channel 9 Eyewitness News live.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/wftvapps.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"537\" height=\"108\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/beda08358d6db9816e7b0d066edd22cf.jpeg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Playing only their backups, the Boston Celtics stunned the Orlando Magic 113-108 Sunday night to drop Orlando to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229257,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[9806,6499,16197,123,139,141,1239,140,10150],"class_list":{"0":"post-229256","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando","8":"tag-boston-celtics","9":"tag-detroit","10":"tag-eastern-conference","11":"tag-miami","12":"tag-orlando","13":"tag-orlando-headlines","14":"tag-orlando-magic","15":"tag-orlando-news","16":"tag-seed"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229256","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=229256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}