{"id":245053,"date":"2026-04-24T17:35:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T17:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/245053\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T17:35:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T17:35:14","slug":"magic-pistons-head-into-game-3-with-series-tied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/245053\/","title":{"rendered":"Magic, Pistons head into Game 3 with series tied"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Orlando Magic and Detroit Pistons are heading to Game 3 of their first-round playoff series with the matchup tied 1-1.Game 3 is important because the winner will take a 2\u20131 series lead in the first-round battle.The next game is scheduled for Saturday at 1 p.m. at the Kia Center. Here&#8217;s an overview of the past games: Game 1The Orlando Magic won their first road playoff game under Jamahl Mosley and did it in a wire-to-wire fashion. All five starters for Orlando scored at least 16 points, led by Paolo Banchero\u2019s 23.Final: Magic 112 &#8211; Pistons 101Game 2 Cade Cunningham scored a game-high 27 points as the Detroit Pistons tied the series at 1-1 in Game 2 of the first round of the NBA Playoffs.Both teams were tied 46-46 at halftime, but the Pistons opened up the third quarter on a 30-3 run.The Pistons would finish the quarter 38-16, heading into the fourth quarter leading the Magic 84-62.Final: Pistons 98 &#8211; Magic 83\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tORLANDO, Fla. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The Orlando Magic and Detroit Pistons are heading to Game 3 of their first-round playoff series with the matchup tied 1-1.<\/p>\n<p>Game 3 is important because the winner will take a 2\u20131 series lead in the first-round battle.<\/p>\n<p>The next game is scheduled for Saturday at 1 p.m. at the Kia Center. <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an overview of the past games: <\/p>\n<p>Game 1<\/p>\n<p>The Orlando Magic won their first road playoff game under Jamahl Mosley and did it in a wire-to-wire fashion. <\/p>\n<p>All five starters for Orlando scored at least 16 points, led by Paolo Banchero\u2019s 23.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text\">Final: Magic 112 &#8211; Pistons 101<\/p>\n<p>Game 2 <\/p>\n<p>Cade Cunningham scored a game-high 27 points as the Detroit Pistons tied the series at 1-1 in Game 2 of the first round of the NBA Playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>Both teams were tied 46-46 at halftime, but the Pistons opened up the third quarter on a 30-3 run.<\/p>\n<p>The Pistons would finish the quarter 38-16, heading into the fourth quarter leading the Magic 84-62.<\/p>\n<p>Final: Pistons 98 &#8211; Magic 83 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Orlando Magic and Detroit Pistons are heading to Game 3 of their first-round playoff series with the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245054,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[38323,107922,916,5801,5804,92028,139,141,140,107924,2451,107921,38342,14202,23810,405,107923],"class_list":{"0":"post-245053","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando","8":"tag-cade-cunningham","9":"tag-first-road-playoff-game","10":"tag-game","11":"tag-jamahl-mosley","12":"tag-magic","13":"tag-nba-playoffs","14":"tag-orlando","15":"tag-orlando-headlines","16":"tag-orlando-news","17":"tag-overview","18":"tag-p-m","19":"tag-past-game","20":"tag-pistons","21":"tag-point","22":"tag-quarter","23":"tag-series","24":"tag-starter"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245053","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=245053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}