{"id":255180,"date":"2026-05-02T09:32:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T09:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/255180\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T09:32:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T09:32:13","slug":"orlando-tragic-the-wildest-numbers-of-the-magics-24-point-collapse-against-the-pistons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/255180\/","title":{"rendered":"Orlando Tragic: The wildest numbers of the Magic’s 24-point collapse against the Pistons"},"content":{"rendered":"

For their next trick, the Orlando Magic will make a 22-point halftime lead disappear.<\/a> It remains to be seen if their season is next.<\/p>\n

In a series they once led 3-1, the Magic are headed to a Game 7 on the road against the top-seeded Detroit Pistons<\/a> after the worst collapse of the postseason. They finished the first half with a 60-38 lead. They finished the game with a 93-79 loss<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Overall, the Magic were outscored 55-19 in the second half. A professional basketball team scored 19 (nineteen) points in 24 minutes of basketball at home, with a chance to reach the Eastern Conference semifinals on the line.<\/p>\n

Catastrophe doesn\u2019t begin to describe what happened in Orlando on Friday. The best way to process it is going through the numbers, so here are a few for your thoughts.<\/p>\n

23<\/p>\n

That\u2019s how many consecutive field goals the Magic missed during a stretch in the second half, a playoff record in the play-by-play era. They weren\u2019t missing gracefully either.<\/p>\n

24<\/p>\n

The Magic\u2019s largest lead of the game, topping out early in the third quarter. They ended up losing by 14.<\/p>\n

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16:24<\/p>\n

How much game time the Pistons needed to tie the game after halftime.<\/p>\n

323<\/p>\n

Yes, we are repeating numbers. In this case, that was the previous record for fewest points in any half of an NBA playoff game. The Magic beat it by four points.<\/p>\n

4-for-37<\/p>\n

What the Magic shot overall in the second half, with three of those makes coming in the first eight minutes of the third quarter. In the fourth quarter, they were 1-of-20.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what all of that looks like:<\/p>\n

0<\/p>\n

The Magic did make a field goal in the fourth quarter, a Paolo Banchero<\/a> dunk. So they didn\u2019t make a single jump shot in the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n

4510<\/p>\n

Somehow, that was also the fewest turnovers the Magic have committed in a game this series, which underscores just how bad their shooting was.<\/p>\n

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1996-9748<\/p>\n

Roughly how many hours the Magic have to mentally and physically recover from all of this before they have to play a Game 7 on the road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For their next trick, the Orlando Magic will make a 22-point halftime lead disappear. It remains to be…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255181,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[5834,110967,139,141,1239,140,5799,5797],"class_list":["post-255180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-detroit-pistons","tag-nba-playoff-game","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-magic","tag-orlando-news","tag-paolo-banchero","tag-the-magic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255180","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=255180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}