{"id":428748,"date":"2023-03-07T22:26:08","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T03:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=428748"},"modified":"2023-03-07T22:32:04","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T03:32:04","slug":"giannis-less-bucks-beat-magic-for-18th-win-in-19-games","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/giannis-less-bucks-beat-magic-for-18th-win-in-19-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Giannis-less Bucks beat Magic for 18th win in 19 games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brook Lopez finished with 26 points, Kris Middleton and Jevon Carter each added 24 points and the visiting Milwaukee Bucks beat the Orlando Magic 134-123 at Amway Center on Tuesday night for their 18th win in 19 games.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">14-straight wins vs. Magic. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fEKT9U3TNs\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/fEKT9U3TNs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Milwaukee Bucks (@Bucks) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Bucks\/status\/1633293245055639552?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 8, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;blueLinks&quot;}\">The Bucks, who shot 59% and ran their winning streak against the Magic to 14 games, played without All-Stars Giannis Antetokounmpo (non-COVID-19 illness) and Jrue Holiday (sore neck).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Bench shenanigans. \u270c\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WO5jTuXF0r\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/WO5jTuXF0r<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Milwaukee Bucks (@Bucks) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Bucks\/status\/1633305631061954560?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 8, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;blueLinks&quot;}\">Cole Anthony led the Magic with 23 points. Franz Wagner added 21 points and Paolo Banchero had 20 points and five rebounds.<\/p>\n<p data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;blueLinks&quot;}\">The Magic home loss marked the first time they suffered consecutive defeats since late January and had the same result in back-to-back games since early February.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-clear-div\">The Bucks pulled away from a 51-all tie and led 70-60 after a first half in which Lopez scored 19 points.<\/div>\n<p data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;blueLinks&quot;}\">Crowder, playing in only his sixth game with the Bucks, scored seven straight points late in the third quarter to put the Bucks up 98-83.<\/p>\n<p data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;blueLinks&quot;}\">The Magic were down by eight points until Portis and Middleton led a fourth-quarter charge that pushed the Bucks&#8217; lead to 16, their largest of the game.<\/p>\n<p data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;blueLinks&quot;}\">G Lindell Wigginton played 31 seconds after signing a two-way contract Tuesday. G Goran Dragic, who signed with Milwaukee on Saturday, is rehabbing a sore left knee and is close to playing.<\/p>\n<p data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;blueLinks&quot;}\">C Wendell Carter (left hip) and G Gary Harris (sore left abductor) sat out a second straight game. &#8230; The Magic shot 26 for 95 (27.4%) in three games against Milwaukee.<\/p>\n<p data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;blueLinks&quot;}\">The Bucks host the Brooklyn Nets, while the Magic host Utah Jazz on Thursday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\">\n<div  id=\"_ytid_40610\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"  data-origwidth=\"800\" data-origheight=\"450\" data-facadesrc=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/X9DW4SQUWRk?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;modestbranding=1&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;controls=1&#038;color=red&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;rel=1&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__ epyt-facade epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" data-epautoplay=\"1\" ><img decoding=\"async\" data-spai-excluded=\"true\" class=\"epyt-facade-poster skip-lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"YouTube player\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/X9DW4SQUWRk\/maxresdefault.jpg\" title=\"\"><button class=\"epyt-facade-play\" aria-label=\"Play\"><svg data-no-lazy=\"1\" height=\"100%\" version=\"1.1\" viewBox=\"0 0 68 48\" width=\"100%\"><path class=\"ytp-large-play-button-bg\" d=\"M66.52,7.74c-0.78-2.93-2.49-5.41-5.42-6.19C55.79,.13,34,0,34,0S12.21,.13,6.9,1.55 C3.97,2.33,2.27,4.81,1.48,7.74C0.06,13.05,0,24,0,24s0.06,10.95,1.48,16.26c0.78,2.93,2.49,5.41,5.42,6.19 C12.21,47.87,34,48,34,48s21.79-0.13,27.1-1.55c2.93-0.78,4.64-3.26,5.42-6.19C67.94,34.95,68,24,68,24S67.94,13.05,66.52,7.74z\" fill=\"#f00\"><\/path><path d=\"M 45,24 27,14 27,34\" fill=\"#fff\"><\/path><\/svg><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brook Lopez finished with 26 points, Kris Middleton and Jevon Carter each added 24 points and the visiting Milwaukee Bucks beat the Orlando [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":428749,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16728,17649,16726,16758],"news_category":[16706,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"Jrue Holiday also missed the game due to sore neck","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/428748"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/428748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428748"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=428748"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=428748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}