{"id":58410,"date":"2025-11-24T05:56:24","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T05:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/58410\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T05:56:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T05:56:24","slug":"orlando-magic-face-celtics-without-top-scorers-paolo-banchero-and-jalen-suggs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/58410\/","title":{"rendered":"Orlando Magic face Celtics without top scorers Paolo Banchero and Jalen Suggs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BOSTON (AP) \u2014 The Orlando Magic were missing three of their top five scorers for Sunday\u2019s game against the Boston Celtics.<\/p>\n<p>Forward <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/orlando-magic-banchero-3d1e59ecef476abca9551ebbf46f7f41\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paolo Banchero<\/a>, the second-leading scorer at 21.7 points per game, missed his sixth straight game with a strained groin, guard Jalen Suggs, who is averaging 14.4 points, was rested and center Wendell Carter Jr. (12.3 points) was out with a sprained left ankle.<\/p>\n<p>Carter went through his pregame routine before being ruled out about an hour before tipoff.<\/p>\n<p>The Magic did get some good news. Coach Jamahl Mosley is back after missing the second half of a <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/knicks-magic-score-cf3885ae20ab4670f0104f872f6d6aee\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">victory over the New York Knicks<\/a> on Saturday due to illness.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWay better,\u201d Mosley said before the game about how he felt.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a good warning sign (about) the importance of hydration, sleep and not letting little things get to you within a game, like referees,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Suggs played Saturday, but after having knee surgery last season, the team wanted to avoid playing him on consecutive days.<\/p>\n<p>The teams split two games at Orlando in November.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/undefined\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">___<\/a><\/p>\n<p>AP NBA: <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.apnews.com\/hub\/NBA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BOSTON (AP) \u2014 The Orlando Magic were missing three of their top five scorers for Sunday\u2019s game against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58411,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[9806,1882,28,5803,5801,30587,26392,2295,14596,139,141,1239,140,5799,110,32867],"class_list":{"0":"post-58410","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando","8":"tag-boston-celtics","9":"tag-fl-state-wire","10":"tag-florida","11":"tag-jalen-suggs","12":"tag-jamahl-mosley","13":"tag-local-news-for-apple","14":"tag-massachusetts","15":"tag-nba","16":"tag-nba-basketball","17":"tag-orlando","18":"tag-orlando-headlines","19":"tag-orlando-magic","20":"tag-orlando-news","21":"tag-paolo-banchero","22":"tag-sports","23":"tag-wendell-carter"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58410","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=58410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}