Desmond Bane hit a 3-pointer<\/a> at the buzzer to give the Orlando Magic a 115-112 win over the Portland Trail Blazers on Monday night.<\/p>\nBane’s basket from 27 feet capped a wild finish in which the Trail Blazers overcame a nine-point deficit only to see their comeback nullified as the buzzer sounded.<\/p>\n
Paolo Banchero led the Magic with 28 points and nine rebounds. Bane finished with 22 points and seven assists.<\/p>\n
Shaedon Sharpe scored 31 points for Portland. Devi Avdija added 27 points, including a couple of 3-pointers during an 11-0 Portland run in the final two minutes.<\/p>\n
Jeremi Grant scored on an inbounds pass from Toumani Camara and added a free throw with 10.6 seconds left to put Portland ahead 112-110.<\/p>\n
Banchero, who had missed two free throws before Grant’s three-point play, drove for a game-tying layup and drew a foul. He missed another free throw, leaving the game tied with five seconds remaining. But Banchero stole Portland’s inbounds pass with 1.9 seconds left, setting the stage for Bane’s winner.<\/p>\n
Franz Wagner and Wendell Carter Jr. had 19 points and nine rebounds each for Orlando.<\/p>\n
Neither team had a double-digit lead until Orlando’s Jett Howard hit a 3-pointer to make it 87-75 in the final seconds of the third quarter.<\/p>\n
Portland, playing the second game of a five-game trip, got it back to 102-100 on a couple of free throws by Avdija with 4:46 left. The Trail Blazers’ only lead of the second half came on Grant’s play with 10.6 seconds remaining.<\/p>\n
Bane’s game-winning shot was his only successful 3-pointer on six attempts, and the Magic shot only 8 for 30 (26.7%) from distance.<\/p>\n
Playing their third game in four nights, the Magic were without guard Jalen Suggs (knee).<\/p>\n
Trail Blazers: At New Orleans on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n
Magic: At New York Knicks on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n
AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/NBA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Desmond Bane hit a 3-pointer at the buzzer to give the Orlando Magic a 115-112 win over the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284509,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-284508","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\/284508","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=284508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}