Desmond Bane matched his season excessive with 37 factors and Orlando Magic superior to the NBA Cup semifinals with a 117-108 victory over Miami Warmth on Tuesday night time.
Jalen Suggs scored 20 factors and Paolo Banchero added 18 factors and 7 rebounds for Magic, which can play New York on Saturday within the semifinal spherical at Las Vegas.
Norman Powell led Miami with 21 factors. Tyler Herro added 20 and Bam Adebayo and Andrew Wiggins every had 19 for the Warmth, which has misplaced 3 times in Orlando this season.
Bane hit two 3-pointers and scored on a three-point play within the first 2:06 of the fourth quarter, stretching Magic’s six-point result in 13. Warmth by no means bought the margin underneath 9 till the ultimate minute.
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Magic performed for the primary time this season with out Franz Wagner, who is predicted to be out a number of weeks with a excessive ankle sprain.
Warmth made its first six pictures and led 15-0 when Herro drove for a layup lower than three minutes into the sport. However Miami went chilly and completed the sport 8 for 33 (24.2%) from 3-point vary. Herro missed all six of his 3-point makes an attempt, together with an open shot that might have minimize the margin to 4 with 37 seconds left.
Bane made 6 of 9 3-pointers and Magic shot 15 for 32 (46.9%).
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