{"id":376082,"date":"2025-12-29T15:37:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T15:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/376082\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T15:37:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T15:37:07","slug":"magic-127-126-nuggets-dec-27-2025-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/376082\/","title":{"rendered":"Magic 127-126 Nuggets (Dec 27, 2025) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

ORLANDO, Fla. — \u2014 Anthony Black<\/a> scored a career-high 38 points, Desmond Bane<\/a> made two free throws with 6.9 seconds left and the Orlando Magic<\/a> overcame another huge triple-double by Nikola Jokic<\/a> to beat the Denver Nuggets<\/a> 127-126 on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

Jokic had 34 points, 21 rebounds and 12 assists, his 180th triple-double and 16th of the season. Two nights after finishing with 56 points, 16 rebounds and 15 assists<\/a> in a Christmas overtime victory over Minnesota, he pulled within one of Oscar Robertson for second on the NBA’s career triple-doubles list.<\/p>\n

Jamal Murray<\/a> scored 24 points for Denver, but missed a long jump shot at the horn after Bane’s free throws completed Orlando’s comeback from a 17-point deficit. <\/p>\n

Bane scored 15 of his 24 points in the fourth quarter for the Magic, who shot 67.4% in the second half. <\/p>\n

Denver’s loss, in the opener of a seven-game road trip, was its second straight on the road after 11 straight road victories.<\/p>\n

Tim Hardaway Jr<\/a>. scored 20 points for the Nuggets, who shot 51.2% for the game.<\/p>\n

Wendell Carter Jr<\/a>. had 18 points and seven rebounds for the Magic before fouling out with 11.9 seconds left after a replay reversal put Jokic on the line for Denver’s final points.<\/p>\n

Black shot 14 for 24 overall and made 7 of 11 3-point shots. He also had a steal from Jokic that led to a layup for his final points late in the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n

Up next <\/p>\n

Nuggets: Visit Miami on Monday.<\/p>\n

Magic: Visit Toronto on Monday.<\/p>\n

——<\/p>\n

AP NBA: https:\/\/www.apnews.com\/hub\/NBA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. — \u2014 Anthony Black scored a career-high 38 points, Desmond Bane made two free throws with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-376082","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\/376082","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=376082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}