Orlando Magic News

Pat Garrity scored 18 points and Dwight Howard added 15 points and eight rebounds to lead the Orlando Magic over the undermanned Memphis Grizzlies 112-89 in a pre-season game Saturday night. Trailing 66-37 at halftime, Memphis missed eight of its first 10 shots in the third quarter. The Grizzlies mounted an 11-0 fourth-quarter run, but were still down by 22 points before James Augustine responded with two free throws with 4:47 left. Hakim Warrick and Kyle Lowry led ...

Hedo Turkoglu scored 21 points on 8-of-9 shooting, and Dwight Howard had 20 points and 16 rebounds to lead the Orlando Magic to a 109-88 pre-season victory over the Atlanta Hawks at the Birmingham-Jefferson Civic Center Arena on Thursday night. The Magic (4-1) outscored Atlanta 33-17 in the second quarter to take a 58-36 lead. Howard scored six points in a 14-1 run over a five-minute span midway through the quarter. Marvin Williams led the Hawks (3-2) with ...

Joe Johnson scored 27 points and Zaza Pachulia had 19 to lift the Atlanta Hawks over the Orlando Magic 100-96 in a pre-season game Tuesday night. Johnson hit a short jumper with 3:40 left to give Atlanta its first lead since the second quarter, and extended it to 88-83 the next trip down with a three-pointer from the wing. It was Orlando's first pre-season loss after winning three straight, and pushes Atlanta's exhibition record to 3-1. Dwight Howard ...

Travis Diener started again in place of injured Orlando point guard Jameer Nelson and scored 23 points as the Magic defeated the San Antonio Spurs 92-87 in pre-season action Saturday night. Diener, a second-year player from Marquette, was 4-of-4 on three-point shots. Two of them came in the game's final 8:45 when the score was either tied or the Spurs had a two-point lead. The Magic (3-0) haven't had Nelson for the pre-season because of a mild concussion. Orlando ...

Pat Garrity scored 19 points and Dwight Howard added 17 to lead the Orlando Magic to a 100-85 pre-season victory over New Orleans on Friday night as the Hornets lost two starters to ankle injuries. Leading scorer David West and new acquisition Tyson Chandler limped off the floor in a span of about five minutes in the third quarter, and the Magic soon took control of the game. West, New Orleans' leading scorer and rebounder last season, ...

The Orlando Magic paid a political consultant and frequent tax critic US$200,000 not to oppose plans for a recently announced new arena, the club has disclosed. The payments were made at two different points to Doug Guetzloe, who also hosts a local radio show billed as ``The Voice of the People.'' The Magic gave him $100,000 to support a similar stadium push in 2001 and another $100,000 this year. The ...

Dwight Howard had 18 points and 10 rebounds Tuesday night to lead the Orlando Magic to a 107-90 pre-season victory over Charlotte, offsetting an impressive pro debut by Adam Morrison of the Bobcats. Morrison, who led the nation in scoring last season at Gonzaga with a 28.1 average and was the third overall pick in the NBA draft, had a game-high 19 points. The 6-foot-8 Morrison gave the Bobcats instant ...

Jameer Nelson and Dwight Howard knocked heads during the Orlando Magic's scrimmage Friday, sending Nelson sprawling to the court with blood pouring from his head. Both players left the court holding towels over their faces and both needed stitches. ``They both have headaches,'' Magic spokesman Joel Glass said. ``They hit pretty hard. We'll just see how they feel in the morning and go from there.'' Howard, six-foot-11 and 268 pounds, ...

The city's downtown is getting a more than $1 billion facelift with a new arena for the Orlando Magic, a renovated Florida Citrus Bowl and a new performing arts centre, officials announced Friday. The projects were made possible by a recently approved penny-on-the-dollar increase in Orange County's hotel bed tax. The Magic arena will run US$480 million _ with the team on the hook for overruns and some $200 million ...

DURHAM, N.C. (AP) _ J.J. Redick's court appearance to face drunken driving charges was delayed Tuesday until Oct. 24. Redick, a former Duke star and first-round draft pick of the Orlando Magic, was also charged with unlawful use of highways for making an illegal U-turn, police said. Redick was arrested after 1 a.m. on June 13 when he turned around as he approached a licence check point near the Duke ...