Orlando Magic has no answer to Jokic, Porter Jr. In Blowout -tab to Denver Nuggets

The NBA trading deadline came and went Thursday afternoon without any movements from Orlando Magic. Which means the players facing the Denver Nuggets Thursday night will essentially be the same group trying to save the regular season.

They hope that 112-90-discharge losses are not a precursor to the things that come in the last third of the season.

Orlando fell to 25-28, eighth place in the east. The result was the 23rd time this season and the fourth time during this western road trip that Magic could not score 100 points. Orlando is 3-20 in these games.

In the 19 games played in 2025, the magic has lost 14 of them – 10 with double digits.

An offensive explosion Wednesday in Sacramento turned out to be a deviation as the magic regressed to their norm the other night in back-to-back. They shot 36.9 percent from the field and made only five of 31 triangles-a common season-low, which the magic has recorded five times.

“It’s something we work on every day. It’s out of work,” said Wendell Carter Jr. from Magic’s consistent shooting matches. As a team, Orlando shoots only 30.3 percent from three.

“Looks like we don’t know how we shoot, but I think many guys from top to bottom are all good shooting games,” Continued Carter Jr. “Some days we are red -hot (on) fire, There is all our shots, and then we just have a really bad cold spell where we can’t even hit a coin in the sea.

“We have to find out that Even-Keel. When the triangles don’t fall, find other ways to get light baskets or feet-set triangles and then go from there.”

Denver’s leading contribution came from three-time MVP Nikola Jokic, who published his 24th triple double this season with 28 points, 10 rebounds and 12 assists, and Michael Porter Jr., who scored at least 30 points for the third straight match.

Wendell Carter Jr. led the magic with 19 points from the bench. Paolo Banchero (18 points) and Franz Wagner (14), the only other Orlando players in double, shot 12-of-31 from the field.

Denver dominated the glass, transcending Orlando 61-47. Nuggets Outscorated Magic 60-40 in the paint, 14-7 on second chances and 24-12 on Fastbreak.

Jalen Suggs was sitting for his sixth straight battle while dealing with a left quad contusion while Denver’s Jamal Murray missed the game with the left knee inflent.

Ten of Magic’s next 11 matches are at the KIA Center, with three-game and seven games Homestands Sandwiching the All-Star Break.

“It’s a great opportunity for us to steal a few games, get our mojo back, our Swagger back,” said Carter Jr.

The magic host de’aaron Fox, Victor Wembanyama and San Antonio Spurs on Saturday night for the first of three home matches before the All-Star break. Tipoff is 19:00 one in the Kia Center. Full schedule