Denver Nuggets (22-8, third in the Western Conference) vs. Orlando Magic (17-14, sixth in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
Orlando, Florida; Saturday, 7 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Nuggets -5; over\/under is 235.5<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: Denver visits the Orlando Magic after Nikola Jokic scored 56 points in the Nuggets’ 142-138 overtime victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves.<\/p>\n The Magic are 10-6 in home games. Orlando is third in the NBA with 18.2 fast break points per game led by Franz Wagner averaging 4.2.<\/p>\n The Nuggets are 12-3 on the road. Denver ranks second in the Western Conference with 29.8 assists per game led by Jokic averaging 11.0.<\/p>\n The Magic average 11.4 made 3-pointers per game this season, 1.7 fewer makes per game than the Nuggets give up (13.1). The Nuggets are shooting 51.3% from the field, 3.5% higher than the 47.8% the Magic’s opponents have shot this season.<\/p>\n The two teams play for the second time this season. The Nuggets defeated the Magic 126-115 in their last meeting on Dec. 19. Jamal Murray led the Nuggets with 32 points, and Paolo Banchero led the Magic with 26 points.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Desmond Bane is averaging 19 points and 4.5 assists for the Magic. Anthony Black is averaging 24 points, four assists and two steals over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n Jokic is averaging 29.8 points, 12.1 rebounds and 11 assists for the Nuggets. Murray is averaging 35.0 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Magic: 4-6, averaging 111.0 points, 45.0 rebounds, 26.3 assists, 7.7 steals and 5.1 blocks per game while shooting 44.3% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 116.4 points per game.<\/p>\n Nuggets: 8-2, averaging 128.2 points, 40.8 rebounds, 29.8 assists, 8.0 steals and 3.6 blocks per game while shooting 52.1% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 120.0 points.<\/p>\n INJURIES: Magic: Franz Wagner: day to day (leg), Goga Bitadze: day to day (knee), Moritz Wagner: day to day (knee), Jalen Suggs: day to day (hip).<\/p>\n Nuggets: Cameron Johnson: out (knee), Christian Braun: out (ankle), Aaron Gordon: out (hamstring), Tamar Bates: out (foot).<\/p>\n ___<\/p>\n The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Denver Nuggets (22-8, third in the Western Conference) vs. Orlando Magic (17-14, sixth in the Eastern Conference) Orlando,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2206,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[51830,1111,7607,14596,139,141,140,110],"class_list":{"0":"post-98305","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando","8":"tag-51830","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-athlete-injuries","11":"tag-nba-basketball","12":"tag-orlando","13":"tag-orlando-headlines","14":"tag-orlando-news","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98305","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=98305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}