{"id":249739,"date":"2026-04-28T15:16:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T15:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/249739\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T15:16:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T15:16:25","slug":"magic-players-enact-apparent-cocaine-themed-handshake-before-big-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/249739\/","title":{"rendered":"Magic Players Enact Apparent Cocaine-Themed Handshake Before Big Win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                          Magic Players<br \/>\n                          Fist &#8216;Bump&#8217;<br \/>\n                          Apparent Cocaine-Themed Handshake Turns Heads<\/p>\n<p>\n                                                                        Published<br \/>\n                              April 28, 2026<br \/>\n                            7:16 AM PDT\n                                                                            <\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_png_20260428_9c54ac2019fc4bc8b867de440950c43f\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:4a0459d2-5fdd-4381-b97f-c39f11f6b829\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/9c54ac2019fc4bc8b867de440950c43f_md.png\" alt=\"042826 orlando magic primary 4\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Orlando Magic are feeling pretty good with a 3-1 lead on the Detroit Pistons in the NBA playoffs &#8230; or maybe it&#8217;s the drugs they&#8217;re seemingly pretending to sniff that&#8217;s got &#8217;em riding high.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to Monday&#8217;s big Game 4 victory over the top seed in the Eastern Conference, Noah Penda and Goga Bitadze got each other hyped up with a unique routine.<\/p>\n<p>      interesting handshake between noah penda and goga bitadze <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/o3hThqN5Tb\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/o3hThqN5Tb<\/a><br \/>\n              <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jkylemann\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">@jkylemann<\/a><\/p>\n<p>While waiting in the Kia Center tunnels, they started it off with some standard hand slaps and a shivering gesture &#8230; then Bitadze put his hand out for Penda to chop up an imaginary substance before taking a sniff.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"continued\" class=\"continued-anchor\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Penda &#8212; who wound up not playing in the game &#8212; brought it all home with a reaction to whatever he pretended to consume &#8230; and it doesn&#8217;t take a genius to figure out what it looks like.<\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20260428_81ca88f5ad7f43328d74021ed993a848\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:4a0459d2-5fdd-4381-b97f-c39f11f6b829\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/81ca88f5ad7f43328d74021ed993a848_md.jpg\" alt=\"Goga-Bitadze-sub-getty-1\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Whatever it was, they should keep doing it &#8212; the Magic went on to defend homecourt with a 94-88 victory to take a commanding lead in the first-round series. Bitadze had a couple points and six rebounds.<\/p>\n<p>Desmond Bane led the way for Orlando &#8230; securing 22 points on the night.<\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20260428_0bae2982abb740a2810c025a55bc943f\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:4a0459d2-5fdd-4381-b97f-c39f11f6b829\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/0bae2982abb740a2810c025a55bc943f_md.jpg\" alt=\"Goga-Bitadze-sub-getty-2\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The apparent drug-inspired celebrations are nothing new in sports &#8212; remember when Michigan baseball player Mitch Voit snorted the third-base line last year??<\/p>\n<p>He later apologized for that.<\/p>\n<p>      Michigan baseball players are used to playing in the snow \ud83d\ude24 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/O8SrlX8gH2\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/O8SrlX8gH2<\/a><br \/>\n              <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NoahB77_\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">@NoahB77_<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Speaking of celebrations, Grizzlies star Ja Morant was in attendance in Orlando &#8230; and showed support for his old teammate when Bane hit a three-pointer by making a gun gesture that previously got him fined $75k by the league.<\/p>\n<p>Game 5 is Wednesday night &#8230; we&#8217;ll see if the Magic bump the Pistons outta the postseason or if they coke.<\/p>\n<p>CHOKE. We meant CHOKE.<\/p>\n<p>      <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Magic Players Fist &#8216;Bump&#8217; Apparent Cocaine-Themed Handshake Turns Heads Published April 28, 2026 7:16 AM PDT The Orlando&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[115,139,141,140,110,1237,10864],"class_list":["post-249739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-news","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-tmz-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249739","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=249739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}