The Orlando Magic took a commanding 3-1 series lead over Cade Cunningham and the Detroit Pistons with a 94-88 win at home on Monday.<\/p>\n
Cunningham finished with 25 points but struggled from the field, shooting 7-of-23 while committing eight turnovers. Jalen Duren added 12 points and four turnovers as the No. 1 seed continued to face criticism for its lack of postseason production.<\/p>\n
Tobias Harris added 20 points and six rebounds, going 0-of-5 from beyond the arc, while Duncan Robinson added seven points but struggled in his specialty, shooting 1-of-6 from deep.<\/p>\n
Four of five Orlando Magic starters reached double figures, led by Desmond Bane with 22 points. Franz Wagner added 19, Wendell Carter Jr. chipped in a double-double with 12 points and 11 rebounds and Paolo Banchero rounded out the group with 18 points.<\/p>\n
The Orlando Magic have reached the postseason in the last two years but have yet to advance past the first round. Now, holding a promising 3-1 lead over the top-seeded Detroit Pistons, they’re in position to finally break through.<\/p>\n
The winner of the Detroit Pistons-Orlando Magic series will punch a ticket to the Eastern Conference semifinals to take on the winner of the No. 4 Cleveland Cavaliers vs. No. 5 Toronto Raptors matchup, with that series deadlocked at 2-2.<\/p>\n
Game 5 between Detroit and Orlando heads back to Detroit on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Orlando Magic took a commanding 3-1 series lead over Cade Cunningham and the Detroit Pistons with a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,141,140],"class_list":["post-249246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249246","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=249246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}