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NBA Communications: Other nominees… West: Devin Booker (PHX), DeMar DeRozan (SAC), Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (OKC), Kawhi Leonard (LAC), Austin Reaves (LAL) and Victor Wembanyama (SAS) East: Paolo Banchero and Desmond Bane (ORL), Jalen Brunson (NYK), Cade Cunningham and Jalen Duren (DET), Brandon Ingram (TOR) and Jalen Johnson (ATL)
Jason Beede: FINAL (OT): #Magic 136, Wizards 131 About as ugly as they come for Orlando, but it wins its sixth in a row behind 28 points from Jalen Suggs, 26 from Tristan da Silva and 22 from Desmond Bane.
ESPN Insights: Desmond Bane is the third different player in Magic history with 35 points, 5 assists and 0 turnovers in a game 🪄 He joins Tracy McGrady (3 times, last in 2003) and Shaquille O'Neal (1994) 🗒️
Jason Beede: FINAL: #Magic 128, Cavs 122 Desmond Bane scores 35 points, Paolo Banchero notched 25 and Tristan da Silva adds 23. Orlando has won five in a row and returns to Kia Center tomorrow night against Cleveland.
Dillon Brooks gives his opinion on the players ranked above him in the NBA top-50 Joel Embiid: "No, he's too hurt you can probably go to sleep for a straight week and he's probably hurt again" Austin Reaves: "Man a foul baiter" Shaedon Sharpe: "I'm not rating him" Julius Randle: "One of the biggest complainers, he wants all the calls because he plays the most physical him, Zion Williamson and Giannis play so physical" Paolo Banchero: "Down year for Paolo, could be way better he's supposed be LeBron status" LeBron James: "He ain't having a better year than me" Josh Giddey: "Hell no" Rudy Gobert: "Nah" Michael Porter Jr: "He having a good year" Desmond Bane: "That's my young boy" Kon Knueppel: "He's having a good year" Bradon Ingram: "I rate his game all the way" Diontae George: "He's having a great year but he's SOFT" Amen Thompson: "That's my guy" Cooper Flagg: "I rate him.. not a better year than me because if I was with the Mavs would be in the playoff hunt"
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Orlando Magic Daily: The #Magic complete a dominant road back-to-back. Tonight's opponent was not as impressive as yesterday's. But the result speaks for itself. Paolo Banchero with 33 points, Desmond Bane with 18 points and nine assists. The #Magic defeat the #Bucks 130-91.
Jason Beede: FINAL: #Magic 119, Timberwolves 92 Desmond Bane totals 30 points (10 for 10 FTs) while Paolo Banchero notches 25 points and 15 rebounds. Orlando, which outscored Minnesota 60-38 in the paint, heads to Milwaukee tomorrow.
Jason Beede: #Magic guard Desmond Bane has been fined $25,000 “for throwing the game ball with force into the spectator stands” at the end of Orlando’s win at the Lakers on Tuesday night, the NBA said: IMGhttps://twitter.com/NBAPR/status/2027137860583752170
“He reminds me of a lot of older guys in this league,” Magic center Wendell Carter Jr. (15 points, 14 rebounds) said about Bane. “Guys who have established themselves and have a mindset of, he’s going to play his game no matter what. His process is going to remain the same. Early on (in the season), he was struggling a little bit but one thing about it, he stuck to what he knows he’s good at. “And now we’re seeing the benefits of what trading for a guy like that does,” Carter added. “His continued elevation just shows he’s one of the best in this league in terms of his position, shooting the 3-ball, getting downhill, facilitating, playmaking … He’s exactly what we need.”
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Sources say that the Grizzlies have been telling potential trade partners that they are open to taking on long-term salary if it can deliver additional quality draft capital to the seven combined first-round picks they've amassed by shipping out Desmond Bane and now Triple J since the end of the last season. Perhaps that leads to some sort of multi-team structure involving both the Grizzlies, Kings and Raptors to help Toronto with its long-running Domantas Sabonis pursuit. There is a belief among some teams that the Grizz, if properly compensated on the draft pick front, would absorb the contract of ailing Raptors big man Jakob Poeltl. Would they really?
Jason Beede: FINAL: #Magic 130, Raptors 120 Orlando looked dead in the water trailing by 14 points before it outscored Toronto 44-21 in the fourth quarter. Desmond Bane (32 points), Anthony Black (25), Wendell Carter Jr. (23) and Paolo Banchero (20) combine for 100 on ESPN.
What would it take to get the Pelicans to relent on their off-cited resistance to trading either Trey Murphy III or Herb Jones? I've heard this one from multiple teams lately: They would want a Desmond Bane-type offer.
