Orlando Magic (20-16, sixth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Washington Wizards (9-25, 14th in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
Washington; Tuesday, 7 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: CJ McCollum and the Washington Wizards host Desmond Bane and the Orlando Magic in Eastern Conference action.<\/p>\n
The Wizards are 6-17 in conference matchups. Washington is 2-2 in games decided by 3 points or fewer.<\/p>\n
The Magic are 5-3 against the rest of their division. Orlando is eighth in the Eastern Conference scoring 117.1 points per game and is shooting 46.9%.<\/p>\n
The Wizards are shooting 46.3% from the field this season, 1.4 percentage points lower than the 47.7% the Magic allow to opponents. The Magic average 11.2 made 3-pointers per game this season, 3.2 fewer made shots on average than the 14.4 per game the Wizards give up.<\/p>\n
The two teams play for the second time this season. The Magic defeated the Wizards 125-94 in their last matchup on Nov. 1. Paolo Banchero led the Magic with 28 points, and Kyshawn George led the Wizards with 17 points.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: McCollum is averaging 18.6 points and 3.6 assists for the Wizards. Corey Kispert is averaging 13.0 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Bane is averaging 19.3 points and 4.6 assists for the Magic. Banchero is averaging 28 points, 12 rebounds and five assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Wizards: 5-5, averaging 114.9 points, 46.5 rebounds, 25.2 assists, 7.3 steals and 7.1 blocks per game while shooting 46.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 118.8 points per game.<\/p>\n
Magic: 5-5, averaging 114.9 points, 43.2 rebounds, 27.8 assists, 7.8 steals and 5.2 blocks per game while shooting 46.6% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 119.0 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Wizards: Cam Whitmore: out (shoulder), Kyshawn George: out (hip).<\/p>\n
Magic: Franz Wagner: out (ankle), Moritz Wagner: out (knee), Jalen Suggs: out (knee).<\/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":"Orlando Magic (20-16, sixth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Washington Wizards (9-25, 14th in the Eastern Conference) Washington;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360917,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[188970,966,355,1063,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-388994","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-188970","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-nba-basketball","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388994","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=388994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}