{"id":229992,"date":"2026-04-13T17:04:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T17:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/229992\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T17:04:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T17:04:07","slug":"nebraska-native-creighton-alum-scheierman-scores-career-high-against-orlando-magic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/229992\/","title":{"rendered":"Nebraska native, Creighton Alum Scheierman scores career-high against Orlando Magic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">BOSTON (AP) \u2014 Baylor Scheierman scored a career-high 30 points, Luka Garza added 27, including a key 3-pointer with 31.6 seconds left, and the Boston Celtics\u2019 reserves defeated Orlando 113-108 on Sunday night, sending the Magic into a road play-in tournament game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Scheierman, a Aurora, Nebraska native and Creighton Alum, was picked with the last selection in the first round of the 2024 NBA Draft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Omaha Central grad John Tonje also put up 13 points in 30 minutes for the Celtics, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wowt.com\/2026\/04\/11\/former-nebraska-guard-dalano-banton-signs-with-boston-celtics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wowt.com\/2026\/04\/11\/former-nebraska-guard-dalano-banton-signs-with-boston-celtics\/\">Nebraska alum Dalano Banton<\/a> tied the team-lead in assists with 7.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Ron Harper Jr. had a career-best 27 points for Boston, and Garza grabbed 12 rebounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Paolo Banchero led Orlando with 23 points, 11 assists and 10 rebounds, and Jalen Suggs scored 23 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Magic (45-37) had won five straight and seemed ready to lock up a home game as the Eastern Conference\u2019s No. 7 seed before the loss. They <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/magic-bulls-score-76675df526aaf7ce4f6562649eeff666\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">entered tied with Toronto<\/a> for sixth, but fell to eighth and will face Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Boston sat eight of its regular rotation players, including stars Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u2014<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Digital Producer Jackson Piercy contributed to this report.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BOSTON (AP) \u2014 Baylor Scheierman scored a career-high 30 points, Luka Garza added 27, including a key 3-pointer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[103192,103193,102831,9806,103191,26180,10478,27107,139,141,1239,103190,140,5799,102966],"class_list":{"0":"post-229992","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando","8":"tag-2024-nba-draft","9":"tag-aurora-nebraska","10":"tag-baylor-scheierman","11":"tag-boston-celtics","12":"tag-creighton-basketball","13":"tag-jaylen-brown","14":"tag-jayson-tatum","15":"tag-luka-garza","16":"tag-orlando","17":"tag-orlando-headlines","18":"tag-orlando-magic","19":"tag-orlando-magic-oh-oh-oh-oh","20":"tag-orlando-news","21":"tag-paolo-banchero","22":"tag-ron-harper-jr"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229992","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=229992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}