{"id":70509,"date":"2025-12-04T03:04:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T03:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/70509\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T03:04:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T03:04:20","slug":"orlando-magic-outlasted-by-spurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/70509\/","title":{"rendered":"Orlando Magic outlasted by Spurs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Before the Magic<\/a> battled the Spurs<\/a> on Wednesday night, San Antonio<\/a> coach Mitch Johnson was asked what time his team made it to their hotel room in Orlando<\/a> after hosting the Grizzlies on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

His answer?<\/p>\n

Around 3 o\u2019clock in the morning.<\/p>\n

Although Jamahl Mosley<\/a>\u2018s squad held a rest advantage entering the contest, it was Johnson\u2019s group that exited Kia Center with a 114-112 victory over the Magic.<\/p>\n

Orlando trailed by as many as 15 points but got within 1 of the Spurs when Franz Wagner (25 points) hit a 3-pointer with 1:04 left. Wagner then tied the game at 112 with 7.7 seconds remaining when he got fouled shooting another triple.<\/p>\n

Trailing by 2 points, Wagner\u2019s layup with 1.4 seconds left was blocked by Spurs center Luke Kornet.<\/p>\n

While the Magic were without Paolo Banchero<\/a> (left groin strain) for the 10th game in a row, San Antonio was missing All-Defensive center Victor Wembanyama (left calf strain) and reigning Rookie of the Year Stephon Castle (left hip flexor strain).<\/p>\n

The loss snapped a three-game winning streak for Orlando.<\/p>\n

Playing on the second night of a back-to-back, the Spurs (15-6) had six players finish in double figures, including De\u2019Aaron Fox, who made a pair of go-ahead free throws to finish with 31 points.<\/p>\n

The Magic (13-9) wrap up their three-game homestand Friday against the Heat.<\/p>\n

Wagner\u2019s way<\/p>\n

Whether it was a dunk in transition or a cut to the basket, Wagner was successful driving to the hoop.<\/p>\n

His lone three of the night was a critical one while he shot 6 for 7 at the charity stripe. He distributed the ball with 6 assists and\u00a0 added 4 rebounds.<\/p>\n

The Magic needed every point they could get from Wagner as Desmond Bane was unable to find his footing on offense. The Orlando guard started 1 for 7 from the floor and finished with 14 points.<\/p>\n

Up-and-down Suggs<\/p>\n

Jalen Suggs had a team-high 21 points through three quarters but couldn\u2019t stay out of foul trouble throughout the game.<\/p>\n

The Magic guard picked up two fouls within the first four minutes of the game and later earned his fifth foul at the 9:49 mark of the fourth quarter (less than a minute after his fourth).<\/p>\n

Suggs (24 points) hit three 3s and added 4 rebounds with 4 assists but limited his own minutes by failing to defend without fouling. He fouled out with 25.6 seconds left in the game.<\/p>\n

Da Silva dynamic<\/p>\n

After shooting a combined 0-for-5 from 3-point range the last two games, second-year pro Tristan da Silva was aggressive on offense early.<\/p>\n

He hit his first triple of the night and later added a second to post 10 points before the break.<\/p>\n

Da Silva, however, scored just 2 points in the second half.<\/p>\n

Rookie watch<\/p>\n

Both Noah Penda and Jase Richardson got some run Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Penda checked into the game with 4:41 left in the first quarter but saw just 3 minutes of action. In his short stint, he missed a pair of shots, grabbed 2 rebounds and picked up one foul.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Richardson didn\u2019t see the floor until the 4-minute mark of the third quarter with the Magic trailing by 10 points. The No. 25 pick played the rest of the game to see 16 minutes.<\/p>\n

The first-round pick did a little bit of everything with 8 points, 5 rebounds, 2 assists and a steal in the extended action.<\/p>\n

Jason Beede can be reached at jbeede@orlandosentinel.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Before the Magic battled the Spurs on Wednesday night, San Antonio coach Mitch Johnson was asked what time…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[114,2295,139,141,1239,140,109,110],"class_list":{"0":"post-70509","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando","8":"tag-latest-headlines","9":"tag-nba","10":"tag-orlando","11":"tag-orlando-headlines","12":"tag-orlando-magic","13":"tag-orlando-news","14":"tag-social","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70509","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=70509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}