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GAME INFO
Who: Philadelphia 76ers at Orlando Magic
What: 2024-2025 Regular Season Game 41
When: Sunday, January 12 at 6:00m ET
Where: Kia Center, Orlando, FL
How: FanDuel Sports Network Florida, NBA League Pass, 96.9 The Game (Radio)

GAMBLING
Line: ORL -1.5
Over/Under: 206.5

ORLANDO MAGIC HEAD COACH
Jamahl Mosley - Career Record: 125-161 regular season, 3-4 playoffs



ORLANDO MAGIC STARTERS

G: Anthony Black



G: Kentavious Caldwell-Pope



F: Tristan da Silva



F: Paolo Banchero



C: Goga Bitadze



ORLANDO MAGIC BENCH

G: Cole Anthony



F: Trevelin Queen



F: Jett Howard



F: Jonathan Isaac



C: Wendell Carter Jr.



ORLANDO MAGIC DEEP BENCH
G: Cory Joseph
F: Caleb Houstan

Injuries: Franz Wagner (oblique), Moritz Wagner (knee), Jalen Suggs (back), and Gary Harris (hamstring) are OUT, Kentavious Caldwell-Pope (knee) and Jett Howard (ankle) are a GTD


Philadelphia 76ers
G: Tyrese Maxey
G: Kelly Oubre Jr.
F: Paul George
F: Caleb Martin
C: Joel Embiid

Bench
G: Reggie Jackson
G: Eric Gordon
F: Ricky Council IV
F: Guerschon Yabusele
C: Adem Bona

Injuries: Andre Drummond (toe), Kyle Lowry (hip), Jared McCain (knee), and KJ Martin (foot) are a OUT, Joel Embiid (foot) is a GTD

Id appreciate more than 2 points from WCJ… wonder if he’s pouting a little for coming off of the bench.

Gonna be a tough one

Our fans have not been good enough this month.
Going to take a lot of will to take the game tonight.

AdamTheGreek wrote:Our fans have not been good enough this month.
Going to take a lot of will to take the game tonight.

Agreed. The home crowds have been lame. I blame sales and marketing though, we've priced out local fans.

Is Paolo still on a minutes restriction?

KCP is good to go, right? We'd have won if he could've played second half vs Bucks. Hopefully P5 will play a bit more tonight as well.

magik9113 wrote:KCP is good to go, right? We'd have won if he could've played second half vs Bucks. Hopefully P5 will play a bit more tonight as well.

Hope so. He was on the bench 2nd half so doesn’t seem very serious.

eyriq wrote:

AdamTheGreek wrote:Our fans have not been good enough this month.
Going to take a lot of will to take the game tonight.

Agreed. The home crowds have been lame. I blame sales and marketing though, we've priced out local fans.

You just hinted at an underlying issue not many people take notice of and might be part of the bigger issue. Basketball in the Orlando market will never fail regardless of the product ownership and management put on the floor. With the success of the NBA and other teams super stars there will always be someone exciting to watch, add the fact Orlando is a MAJOR tourist destination for theme, parks, and cruises along with a major International Airport you’ll always have out of town visitors with spare time on their hand to do stuff and see stuff. If you only have to fill your stadium halfway with local fans you don’t necessarily listen to local fans competing about prices and honestly even the success or failure of your team. It’s a perfect recipe for owners to make money and not worry about failure because you never can fail.

Not expecting Paolo to have a good game while he’s trying to get his legs back. We need others to step up offensively.

eyriq wrote:

AdamTheGreek wrote:Our fans have not been good enough this month.
Going to take a lot of will to take the game tonight.

Agreed. The home crowds have been lame. I blame sales and marketing though, we've priced out local fans.

It's the same phenomena happening around the NBA and other sports.

Sporting events are becoming outings only more well off folks can enjoy regularly. Thus a good amount of the most die hard fans cant go anymore, and a good amount of fans at the game now arent close to as passionate in their fandom of the team.

Whenever I go to bball games the past 4-5 years it catches me off guard how weak the fans are, even at intense moments in the game.

It sucks, knowing that the experience at a game is alot better when 1. you can afford to go to more games 2. there are other passionate fans at the game and yall can feed off of each others energy

This stretch is a pretty rough stretch of games to have Paolo come back for.

Potentially the Minny game against Gobert and guarding bully ball Randle. Bucks against Lopez & Giannis. Then the 76ers against Embiid.

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eyriq wrote:

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We need him tonight but trending down is not good.

Keep Black parked on the bench

eyriq wrote:

Read on Twitter

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it's unreal. we get one starter back and lose another one immediately

SHAQ32 wrote:Keep Black parked on the bench

We need a guard defender in the starting lineup.