{"id":250146,"date":"2026-04-28T20:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T20:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/250146\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T20:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T20:40:09","slug":"orlando-magic-players-polarizing-handshake-overshadows-big-win-theyre-getting-fined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/250146\/","title":{"rendered":"Orlando Magic players&#8217; polarizing handshake overshadows big win: &#8220;They&#8217;re getting fined&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph ue-c-article--first-letter-highlighted\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marca.com\/en\/basketball\/wnba\/chicago-sky\/2026\/04\/09\/69d7d6e0e2704e3b278b4585.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Orlando Magic<\/a> might be the most impressive team of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marca.com\/en\/basketball\/nba\/los-angeles-lakers\/2026\/04\/28\/69effd74268e3e651f8b4577.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NBA Playoffs<\/a> so far. After crushing the Charlotte Hornets to secure the 8th seed, the Magic have humbled the 1-seed Detroit Pistons and have taken a 3-1 first round series lead.<\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph\">The series isn&#8217;t over yet, but a second-consecutive win has put the Magic in a fantastic position. Their Game 4 win was particularly inspiring, fueled by a Jamal Cain posterizing dunk that has gone mega-viral on social media. But it was actually a pre-game handshake that has dominated the national conversation more than the Magic&#8217;s win.<\/p>\n<p>Goga Bitadze and Noah Penda&#8217;s suggestive handshake has fans riled up<\/p>\n<p>Orlando Magic teammates spark debate with unusual pregame handshake<\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph\">Before tip-off, while the Magic were getting ready to head to the court, bench players Goga Bitadze and Noah Penda showed off a handshake that came across as &#8220;high-energy&#8221;, according to a couple of fans.<\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph\">Fans couldn&#8217;t get enough of it, with many calling it the best handshake in the NBA at the moment. Others were more concerned about potential ramifications, opining that they could possibly get fined by &#8220;Adam Silver&#8217;s NBA&#8221; because of it.<\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph\">That may be possible, but it shouldn&#8217;t affect the team in the short-term. The Magic are flying high and are one win away from one of the biggest upsets in recent NBA Playoffs history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Orlando Magic might be the most impressive team of the NBA Playoffs so far. After crushing the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250147,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,141,140],"class_list":["post-250146","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\/250146","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=250146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}