{"id":502457,"date":"2026-03-04T03:42:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T03:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/502457\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T03:42:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T03:42:07","slug":"magic-126-109-wizards-mar-3-2026-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/502457\/","title":{"rendered":"Magic 126-109 Wizards (Mar 3, 2026) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

ORLANDO, Fla. — \u2014 Paolo Banchero<\/a> equaled a season high with 37 points, Desmond Bane<\/a> scored 25 and the Orlando Magic<\/a> eased to a 126-109 victory over the Washington Wizards<\/a> on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

Banchero went 15 of 21 from the field as Orlando shot 55.3% and dominated with its starters on the floor to end a two-game skid. The Magic are seventh in the Eastern Conference.<\/p>\n

Jett Howard<\/a> scored 12 points and Jalen Suggs<\/a>, Jevon Carter<\/a> and Moritz Wagner<\/a> had 10 apiece for an Orlando team that was missing injured regulars Anthony Black<\/a> (quad), Wendell Carter Jr<\/a>. (ankle) and Franz Wagner<\/a> (ankle).<\/p>\n

Rookie Will Riley<\/a> scored 19 points and Jaden Hardy<\/a> added 18 for the Wizards, who had nine healthy players available and lost their sixth straight.<\/p>\n

Angel Reese of the WNBA’s Chicago Sky was in attendance to watch her brother, Washington’s Juju Reese, make his second career start. The 6-foot-9 rookie out of Maryland had nine points and eight rebounds in 32 minutes.<\/p>\n

The Wizards led briefly in the second quarter and kept it within single digits until early in the third, when a layup by Suggs put the Magic ahead 66-56. Orlando led by double digits the rest of the way and pushed its advantage to 25 points in the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n

Up next <\/p>\n

Wizards: Host Utah on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Magic: Host Dallas on Thursday.<\/p>\n

——<\/p>\n

AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. — \u2014 Paolo Banchero equaled a season high with 37 points, Desmond Bane scored 25 and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":502458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-502457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502457","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=502457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}