{"id":548047,"date":"2026-03-27T07:48:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T07:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/548047\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T07:48:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T07:48:12","slug":"magic-121-117-kings-mar-26-2026-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/548047\/","title":{"rendered":"Magic 121-117 Kings (Mar 26, 2026) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

ORLANDO, Fla. — \u2014 Paolo Banchero<\/a> had 30 points, nine rebounds and seven assists as the Orlando Magic<\/a> stopped a six-game losing streak with a 111-107 victory over the Sacramento Kings<\/a> on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Banchero logged his third straight game of 30-plus points for the Magic (39-34), who fell below the play-in cut in the Eastern Conference during their skid that came immediately after a seven-game winning streak had propelled them into fifth place. <\/p>\n

This was the 25th time in Banchero’s four-year career that he logged at least 30 points, five rebounds and five assists. Only Tracy McGrady (66) has more such games.<\/p>\n

Desmond Bane<\/a> added 23 points and Jalen Suggs<\/a> returned from a two-game absence to an illness with eight points and four assists in 34 minutes for Orlando, which forged a three-way tie with Charlotte and Miami for eighth. Atlanta (41-32), Toronto (40-32) and Philadelphia (40-33) are just ahead, with the top six teams in each conference guaranteed a spot in the playoffs without having to go through the play-in games.<\/p>\n

DeMar DeRozan<\/a> had 33 points and 11 assists for the Kings, who sliced a nine-point deficit with a little more than two minutes left down to 116-115 on Daeqwon Plowden<\/a>‘s 3-pointer with 50.4 seconds to go. Suggs answered with a 3-pointer with 27.4 seconds remaining to give the Magic a bigger cushion.<\/p>\n

Plowden added 23 points on 6-for-10 shooting from 3-point range and Precious Achiuwa<\/a> had 14 points and nine rebounds for Sacramento (19-55), which is in last place in the Western Conference.<\/p>\n

Up next <\/p>\n

Sacramento plays at Atlanta on Saturday. Orlando plays at Toronto on Sunday.<\/p>\n

——<\/p>\n

AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/NBA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. — \u2014 Paolo Banchero had 30 points, nine rebounds and seven assists as the Orlando Magic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":548048,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-548047","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\/548047","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=548047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}