Orlando Magic (20-17, seventh in the Eastern Conference) vs. Brooklyn Nets (11-22, 13th in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
New York; Wednesday, 7:30 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Magic -1.5; over\/under is 223.5<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: Desmond Bane and the Orlando Magic take on Michael Porter Jr. and the Brooklyn Nets on Wednesday.<\/p>\n The Nets are 8-15 in Eastern Conference games. Brooklyn averages 14.9 turnovers per game and is 3-7 when it has fewer turnovers than its opponents.<\/p>\n The Magic are 14-13 in Eastern Conference play. Orlando has a 7-8 record in games decided by at least 10 points.<\/p>\n The Nets are shooting 45.0% from the field this season, 2.7 percentage points lower than the 47.7% the Magic allow to opponents. The Magic average 11.2 made 3-pointers per game this season, 1.0 fewer made shot on average than the 12.2 per game the Nets give up.<\/p>\n The teams play for the second time this season. The Magic won the last meeting 105-98 on Nov. 15. Franz Wagner scored 25 points to help lead the Magic to the win.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Noah Clowney is scoring 13.2 points per game and averaging 3.9 rebounds for the Nets. Porter is averaging 20.7 points and 6.2 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n Bane is averaging 19.2 points and 4.6 assists for the Magic. Anthony Black is averaging 21.6 points and 5.2 assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Nets: 5-5, averaging 109.5 points, 39.9 rebounds, 25.7 assists, 9.6 steals and 4.4 blocks per game while shooting 46.0% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 107.5 points per game.<\/p>\n Magic: 5-5, averaging 114.6 points, 43.6 rebounds, 27.6 assists, 7.7 steals and 5.0 blocks per game while shooting 46.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 118.4 points.<\/p>\n INJURIES: Nets: Haywood Highsmith: out (knee), Ben Saraf: out (knee).<\/p>\n Magic: Franz Wagner: out (ankle), Moritz Wagner: out (knee), Jalen Suggs: day to day (knee).<\/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":"Orlando Magic (20-17, seventh in the Eastern Conference) vs. Brooklyn Nets (11-22, 13th in the Eastern Conference) New…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90843,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[43538,597,98,100,99,4583,9,24,63,319],"class_list":{"0":"post-92133","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-43538","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-brooklyn","11":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","12":"tag-brooklyn-news","13":"tag-nba-basketball","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-city","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92133","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=92133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}