{"id":97394,"date":"2025-12-28T06:52:30","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T06:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/97394\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T06:52:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T06:52:30","slug":"magic-overcome-jokic-nuggets-for-127-126-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/97394\/","title":{"rendered":"Magic overcome Jokic, Nuggets for 127-126 victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Anthony Black scored a career-high 38 points, Desmond Bane made two free throws with 6.9 seconds left and the Orlando Magic overcame another huge triple-double by Nikola Jokic to beat the Denver Nuggets 127-126 on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>Jokic had 34 points, 21 rebounds and 12 assists, his 180th triple-double and 16th of the season. Two nights after finishing with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/nuggets-timberwolves-jokic-curry-069fb6057204a9d9344b8a6822e2130c?utm_source=copy&amp;utm_medium=share\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">56 points, 16 rebounds and 15 assists<\/a>\u00a0in a Christmas overtime victory over Minnesota, he pulled within one of Oscar Robertson for second on the NBA&#8217;s career triple-doubles list.<\/p>\n<p>It was Jokic&#8217;s eighth career 30-20-10 game, second-most behind Wilt Chamberlain&#8217;s 16.<\/p>\n<p>Jamal Murray scored 24 points for Denver, but missed a long jump shot at the horn after Bane&#8217;s free throws completed Orlando&#8217;s comeback from a 17-point deficit.<\/p>\n<p>Bane scored 15 of his 24 points in the fourth quarter for the Magic, who shot 67.4% in the second half.<\/p>\n<p>Denver&#8217;s loss, in the opener of a seven-game road trip, was its second straight on the road after 11 straight road victories.<\/p>\n<p>Tim Hardaway Jr. scored 20 points for the Nuggets, who shot 51.2% for the game.<\/p>\n<p>Wendell Carter Jr. had 18 points and seven rebounds for the Magic before fouling out with 11.9 seconds left after a replay reversal put Jokic on the line for Denver&#8217;s final points.<\/p>\n<p>Black shot 14 for 24 overall and made 7 of 11 3-point shots. He also had a steal from Jokic that led to a layup for his final points late in the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Nuggets: Visit Miami on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Magic: Visit Toronto on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Anthony Black scored a career-high 38 points, Desmond Bane made two free throws with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97395,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[2205,28,139,141,1239,140,1240,110],"class_list":{"0":"post-97394","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando","8":"tag-associated-press","9":"tag-florida","10":"tag-orlando","11":"tag-orlando-headlines","12":"tag-orlando-magic","13":"tag-orlando-news","14":"tag-professional-basketball","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97394","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=97394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}