{"id":623417,"date":"2026-05-04T18:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T18:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/623417\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T18:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T18:55:09","slug":"orlando-falls-in-game-7-despite-magic-from-duke-alum-paolo-banchero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/623417\/","title":{"rendered":"Orlando falls in Game 7 despite magic from Duke alum Paolo Banchero"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Orlando Magic<\/a> looked to become the seventh No. 8 seed in NBA history to defeat a No. 1 seed Sunday, facing off against the Detroit Pistons<\/a> in a pivotal Game 7.<\/p>\n

As usual, Orlando was led by former Duke<\/a> star Paolo Banchero<\/a>, who put on another incredible performance. Banchero finished with 40% of the team’s points, scoring 38 to go along with nine rebounds, six assists and one block.<\/p>\n

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Unfortunately, only three more of his teammates scored in double figures, with their second-highest scorer (Desmond Bane<\/a>) finishing with just 16. As a result, the Magic lost, blowing a 3-1 series lead in the process.<\/p>\n

For the series, Banchero averaged an impressive 26.3 points, nine rebounds, 6.3 assists and 1.7 steals. This included an unreal 45-point game<\/a> in Game 6.<\/p>\n

Looking ahead, Banchero’s five-year max extension will kick in next season, as he remains tied to Orlando until at least the 2030-31 season.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Duke Wire: Orlando falls in Game 7 despite magic from Duke alum Paolo Banchero<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Orlando Magic looked to become the seventh No. 8 seed in NBA history to defeat a No.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":623418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[114223,4576,355,11950,56234,83044,99],"class_list":["post-623417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-desmond-bane","tag-detroit-pistons","tag-nba","tag-orlando-magic","tag-paolo-banchero","tag-pivotal-game","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623417","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=623417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/623418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}