{"id":261915,"date":"2025-10-31T01:53:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T01:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/261915\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T01:53:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T01:53:09","slug":"magic-123-107-hornets-oct-30-2025-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/261915\/","title":{"rendered":"Magic 123-107 Hornets (Oct 30, 2025) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — \u2014 Franz Wagner<\/a> scored 21 points and the Orlando Magic<\/a> snapped a four-game losing streak with a 123-107 victory over the Charlotte Hornets<\/a> on Thursday night. <\/p>\n

Paolo Banchero<\/a> had 18 points, nine rebounds and nine assists for the Magic, who led by as many as 20 points in their second win of the season. Wagner was questionable with a left heel contusion going into the game but started.<\/p>\n

LaMelo Ball<\/a> had 17 points and 13 assists for the Hornets, his third double-double of the season. <\/p>\n

The Magic were playing the second of a back-to-back, after falling 135-116 loss to the Pistons on Wednesday. <\/p>\n

Ball was fined $35,000 by the NBA earlier in the day for making an obscene gesture during the fourth quarter of a 144-117 loss to Miami<\/a> on Tuesday night. Ball is averaging 26.3 points, 9.5 assists and 8.3 rebounds this season. <\/p>\n

Charlotte started three rookies for the first time in its history with Kon Knueppel<\/a>, Sion James<\/a> and Ryan Kalkbrenner<\/a>. Knueppel, who made 16 3-pointers through his first four games and had five in the loss to Miami, was held to one by Orlando. <\/p>\n

Orlando went up 53-40 with 7:04 left in the first half on Desmond Bane<\/a>‘s basket and led by 71-58 at the break. It was the Magic’s most first-half points this season. <\/p>\n

Kalkbrenner’s layup got Charlotte within 83-76 with 5:11 to go in the third quarter. Miles Bridges<\/a> got the Hornets even closer with a short jumper that made it 88-85 and Orlando held a 92-85 lead going into the final period. <\/p>\n

Tristan da Silva<\/a>‘s 3-pointer stretched Orlando’s lead to 104-87. <\/p>\n

Last season, Orlando swept its four meetings with Charlotte.<\/p>\n

Up Next <\/p>\n

Magic: Visit the Washington Wizards<\/a> on Saturday. <\/p>\n

Hornets: Host the Minnesota Timberwolves<\/a> on Saturday. <\/p>\n

——<\/p>\n

AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/NBA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHARLOTTE, N.C. — \u2014 Franz Wagner scored 21 points and the Orlando Magic snapped a four-game losing streak…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261916,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-261915","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-nba","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}