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Orlando Magic beat Sacramento Kings 107-100 to snap four-game skid as Franz Wagner scores season-high 33

Franz Wagner scored a season-high 33 and Anthony Black a season-high 26 as Orlando held off Zach LaVine's 31 and Darius Acuff Jr.'s 29 in Sacramento.

Franz Wagner with the Orlando Magic in a 2022 file photoPhoto by All-Pro Reels, CC-BY-SA-2.0, resized.

Franz Wagner scored a season-high 33 points with seven rebounds and seven assists, Anthony Black added a season-high 26, and the Orlando Magic beat the Sacramento Kings 107-100 at Golden 1 Center on Tuesday, November 10. Orlando ended a four-game losing streak and improved to 3-7. Sacramento has lost four straight, fell to 1-10 and is 0-6 at home.

Wagner shot 11-of-23 from the field and 10-of-10 at the line in 38 minutes, with two steals. Black went 10-of-17 with seven rebounds, five assists and four steals. Orlando outscored the Kings 58-28 in the paint and scored 33 points off Sacramento’s 21 turnovers.

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How it turned

Orlando led 34-27 after the first quarter. Wagner’s three with 3:10 left in the second capped an 18-5 run that made it 52-43, and the Magic led 57-52 at halftime and the rest of the way. They were up 84-76 after three quarters.

Black took over in the fourth. His driving layup made it 90-78 with 8:19 left, he set up Wendell Carter Jr. for a dunk on the next trip, and his pull-up jumper made it 103-90 with 2:15 to play. Zach LaVine scored Sacramento’s next eight points, including two late threes, to cut it to 103-98 with 44.7 seconds left, but Wagner made two free throws and Carter dunked to seal it.

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Sacramento’s side

LaVine led the Kings with 31 points on 10-of-16 shooting, including a season-high six threes on nine attempts, and 5-of-5 free throws. Rookie Darius Acuff Jr. had 29 points on 10-of-21 shooting with four threes and six assists in 40 minutes. He has 288 points through his first 11 games, the most by a rookie that early in a season since Michael Jordan scored 289 for the Chicago Bulls in 1984.

Domantas Sabonis, back after missing Sunday’s home loss to Miami with left knee soreness, went scoreless on 0-of-2 shooting in 24 minutes, with five assists and two rebounds. De’Andre Hunter scored 15 and Keegan Murray had 11 points and four blocks. The Kings shot 16-of-34 from three but took 15 fewer shots than Orlando.

The supporting cast

Desmond Bane scored 15 on 5-of-19 shooting, and Carter had eight points, 11 rebounds and three blocks. The Magic played without Paolo Banchero, who missed his eighth straight game with a high ankle sprain, as well as Jalen Suggs, Jonathan Isaac and Tristan da Silva. Attendance was 13,573.

What’s next

The Magic play at the Utah Jazz on Wednesday, November 11, at 9 p.m. ET (4 a.m. Thursday Cairo time). The Kings host the Portland Trail Blazers on Friday, November 13, at 10 p.m. ET (5 a.m. Saturday Cairo time).

Full box score and play-by-play: Game Center. All-time head-to-head. Highlights: Magic at Kings full game highlights.

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