New York Knicks (9-5, third in the Eastern Conference) vs. Orlando Magic (9-7, ninth in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
Orlando, Florida; Saturday, 5 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Orlando hosts New York looking to continue its four-game home winning streak.<\/p>\n
The Magic are 6-6 in Eastern Conference games. Orlando ranks eighth in the league with 33.8 defensive rebounds per game led by Paolo Banchero averaging 7.8.<\/p>\n
The Knicks have gone 6-5 against Eastern Conference opponents. New York leads the Eastern Conference with 14.6 offensive rebounds per game led by Mitchell Robinson averaging 5.4.<\/p>\n
The Magic are shooting 47.1% from the field this season, 0.1 percentage points higher than the 47.0% the Knicks allow to opponents. The Knicks are shooting 45.8% from the field, 0.5% lower than the 46.3% the Magic’s opponents have shot this season.<\/p>\n
The teams square off for the second time this season. The Magic won the last matchup 124-107 on Nov. 13, with Franz Wagner scoring 28 points in the victory.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Wagner is averaging 22.6 points, 6.4 rebounds and 3.8 assists for the Magic. Jalen Suggs is averaging 23.0 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Karl-Anthony Towns is averaging 21.5 points, 12.8 rebounds and 3.4 assists for the Knicks. Miles McBride is averaging 3.0 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Magic: 7-3, averaging 117.4 points, 45.7 rebounds, 26.4 assists, 9.4 steals and 5.4 blocks per game while shooting 46.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 109.0 points per game.<\/p>\n
Knicks: 7-3, averaging 124.9 points, 46.0 rebounds, 29.0 assists, 8.4 steals and 4.9 blocks per game while shooting 47.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 116.7 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Magic: Moritz Wagner: out (knee), Paolo Banchero: day to day (groin).<\/p>\n
Knicks: OG Anunoby: out (hamstring).<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York Knicks (9-5, third in the Eastern Conference) vs. Orlando Magic (9-7, ninth in the Eastern Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[26680,597,4583,9,11,10,319],"class_list":{"0":"post-47050","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-26680","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-nba-basketball","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-headlines","13":"tag-new-york-news","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}