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2019-2020 NBA Regular Season
(14-19) Orlando Magic vs. Washington Wizards (10-22)
Date: Wednesday January 1
Time: 6:00 PM EST
Venue:Capital One Arena, Washington, DC
NBA Moneyline Odds: TBA
NBA Betting Odds: TBA
NBA Betting Total: TBA
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Orlando Magic
Orlando currently occupies the final playoff spot in the Eastern Conference despite losing its last two games, including one at home against Atlanta, the NBA’s worst team by record, which played without Trae Young, the fantastic second-year guard averaging over twenty-eight points and eight assists on the season.
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The Magic wasn’t completely healthy either and played without Michael Carter-Williams, who was ruled out for a third consecutive game with a shoulder injury, and Aaron Gordon, who missed the first of what could be multiple games with an Achille’s problem.
Carter-Williams, who is no longer young by NBA standards but still just twenty-eight years old from Hamilton, Massachusetts, had been giving Orlando quality minutes off the bench prior to the injury as somebody who did a little bit of everything: rebounding, play-making and scoring.
The only player on Orlando’s roster who plays more than Gordon is the all-star forward, Nikola Vucevic (and the difference is negligible). Gordon is among the team leaders in points, rebounds and assists and is one of its best and most versatile defenders.
Seven players on Orlando’s roster, of which Gordon is one, play over twenty-five minutes and score in double-figures. Carter-Williams and Al-Farouq Aminu, who is also out with an injury, are two reliable options that aren’t among the seven. If those two and Gordon miss this game, Orlando will be significantly short-handed again.
Washington Wizards
But Orlando’s injury woes look minor next to Washington’s.
After playing in 194 consecutive games, Bradley Beal missed the Wizards’ last one, an eighteen-point blowout of the division leader Miami, with a leg injury.
Rui Hachimura, the rookie out of Gonzaga who had scored in double-figures in eight consecutive games, including a career-high thirty against the Clippers, before injuring his groin, has not played in six games and is set to miss at least another week.
Davis Bertans, the sharp-shooting forward known as the “Latvian Lazer” and Washington’s second-leading scorer at over fifteen points per game, is out a week with a leg injury.
Thomas Bryant, the Wizards’ leading rebounder who also averages nearly fourteen points per game, still hasn’t returned from a foot injury he suffered four weeks ago.
And Moritz Wagner, who starred at Michigan but didn’t get selected until the twenty-fifth pick in the 2018 draft by the Lakers, who had to move him in order to acquire Anthony Davis, missed the victory over Miami with an ankle injury. He’s averaging nearly a dozen points and half as many rebounds on the year.
The names above including Washington’s four top scorers and its sixth. The fifth guy, Isaiah Thomas, just returned from injury last week but was ineffective in the win over Miami.
The trio of Jordan McRae, Garrison Matthews and Ian Mahinmi combined to score eighty-two points and Ish Smith added nineteen off the bench.
NBA Betting Trends:
- ORL are 8-3-1 ATS in their last 12 Wed. games.
- WAS are 12-5-1 ATS in their last 18 Wed. games.
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Rather than bet the result, play any angle you can on some certain individuals like Vucevic, who should get plenty of looks if Gordon doesn’t play, Evan Fournier and DJ Augustin, both of whom will play extra minutes if Carter-Williams can’t go for a fourth game in a row.
McRae is the one guy you just have to bet on, assuming Beal sits out again. He earned the nickname “Orange Mamba” at Tennessee because of his natural scoring ability. He’ll be Washington’s leading man without Beal.
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