{"id":432262,"date":"2026-10-19T19:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T19:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/432262\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T19:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T19:30:07","slug":"pictures-orlando-magic-players-celebrate-ocps-readers-orlando-sentinel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/432262\/","title":{"rendered":"Pictures: Orlando Magic players celebrate OCPS readers \u2013 Orlando Sentinel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Orlando Magic forward Paolo Banchero shoots during a free-throw relay...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/TOS-L-Magic-Event-1020-1.jpg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Orlando Magic forward Paolo Banchero shoots during a free-throw relay race at the Kia Center on Monday, October 19, 2026, during the Pick, Read &amp; Roll Reading Program event, where Orange County students were honored and celebrated for their improvement in reading. This year, 3,100 fourth-grade students from low-income, Title 1 schools attended the event. In addition, 150 fifth graders who are the most-improved readers from these schools were recognized during the event for their achievements.\u00a0 (Rich Pope\/Orlando Sentinel)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Orlando Magic mascot Stuff rides onto the Kia Center court...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/TOS-L-Magic-Event-1020-5.jpg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Orlando Magic mascot Stuff rides onto the Kia Center court on Monday, October 19, 2026, to hype up over 3,200 Orange County students during the Pick, Read &amp; Roll Reading Program event, where students in attendance were honored and celebrated for their improvement in reading. (Rich Pope\/Orlando Sentinel)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A couple of Azalea Park Elementary School students shoot hoops...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/TOS-L-Magic-Event-1020-3.jpg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A couple of Azalea Park Elementary School students shoot hoops with Orlando Magic guard Jalen Suggs at the Kia Center on Monday, October 19, 2026, during the Pick, Read &amp; Roll Reading Program event, where Orange County students were honored and celebrated for their improvement in reading. (Rich Pope\/Orlando Sentinel)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Orlando Magic players Anthony Black, left, and Noah Penda\u00c2\u00a0take shots...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/TOS-L-Magic-Event-1020-6.jpg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Orlando Magic players Anthony Black, left, and Noah Penda\u00a0take shots shooting during a free-throw relay race at the Kia Center on Monday, October 19, 2026, during the Pick, Read &amp; Roll Reading Program event, where Orange County students were honored and celebrated for their improvement in reading. (Rich Pope\/Orlando Sentinel)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Orlando Magic guard Anthony Black is introduced at the Kia...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/TOS-L-Magic-Event-1020-4.jpg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Orlando Magic guard Anthony Black is introduced at the Kia Center on Monday, October 19, 2026, during the Pick, Read &amp; Roll Reading Program event. (Rich Pope\/Orlando Sentinel)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Orlando Magic forward Paolo Banchero celebrates his team\u00e2\u0080\u0099s win during...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/TOS-L-Magic-Event-1020-2.jpg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Orlando Magic forward Paolo Banchero celebrates his team\u2019s win during a free-throw relay race at the Kia Center on Monday, October 19, 2026, during the Pick, Read &amp; Roll Reading Program event, where Orange County students were honored and celebrated for their improvement in reading. (Rich Pope\/Orlando Sentinel)<\/p>\n<p>Show Caption<\/p>\n<p>1 of 6<\/p>\n<p>Orlando Magic forward Paolo Banchero shoots during a free-throw relay race at the Kia Center on Monday, October 19, 2026, during the Pick, Read &amp; Roll Reading Program event, where Orange County students were honored and celebrated for their improvement in reading. This year, 3,100 fourth-grade students from low-income, Title 1 schools attended the event. In addition, 150 fifth graders who are the most-improved readers from these schools were recognized during the event for their achievements.\u00a0 (Rich Pope\/Orlando Sentinel)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"icon-enlarge mng-gallery-fullscreen-expand\" aria-label=\"Expand fullscreen slideshow\">Expand<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Orlando Magic forward Paolo Banchero shoots during a free-throw relay race at the Kia Center on Monday, October&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[28,114,2295,1335,139,141,1239,140,110],"class_list":["post-432262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-florida","tag-latest-headlines","tag-nba","tag-orange-county","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-magic","tag-orlando-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432262","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=432262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}