Glue back with the Mavericks
Wagnerless Orlando stops NBA free fall with Hartenstein
January 16, 2024, 7:45 a.m
Things aren’t going well for the Orlando Magic recently. The team that started the NBA season so strongly is in decline. They only get three wins from ten games. Without the Wagner brothers, they achieved an important success with the New York Knicks around the German-American Hartenstein. Maxi Kleber is back in Dallas.
Without the Wagner brothers, the Orlando Magic scored an important away win in the NBA. With the 98:94 win over the New York Knicks led by the German-American Isaiah Hartenstein, Magic is keeping in touch with the direct playoff places after three defeats in a row and is directly behind the Knicks with a record of 22:18 wins ( 23:17).
Center Hartenstein showed another convincing performance despite the defeat with seven points and twelve rebounds. Franz Wagner was still missing with ankle problems, his brother Moritz was in the squad but did not play.
Things are still not going well for Dennis Schröder and the Toronto Raptors. The 96:105 against the Boston Celtics was the fourth defeat in a row. National team captain Schröder scored 13 points, coach Darko Rajakovic brought the point guard off the bench like last time.
Pistons get their fourth win of the season in 40 games
Maxi Kleber and the Dallas Mavericks won 125:120 against the New Orleans Pelicans even without superstar Luka Dončić, who still had an ankle injury. Kleber, who started for the first time since his comeback, finally made the decision with 1.6 seconds before the end with two free throws. The 31-year-old had a total of four points and five rebounds in 19 minutes. However, the man of the game was Kyrie Irving with 42 points, Tim Hardaway Jr. had 41.
Reigning MVP Joel Embiid returned to the line-up after knee problems in the Philadelphia 76ers’ 124:115 win against the Houston Rockets – and how. In just 31 minutes, the center scored 41 points and ten rebounds and thus kept his mega series alive: In the 16th consecutive appearance, Embiid managed a 30/10 game, only NBA legend Wilt Chamberlain managed a longer series.
The Detroit Pistons won their fourth game of the season (with 36 defeats) at 129:117 at the Washington Wizards after seven defeats in a row. The worst team in the NBA had already set the negative record with 28 bankruptcies in a row this season, but then won against Dennis Schröder and the Toronto Raptors.