{"id":438241,"date":"2025-04-16T07:54:05","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T05:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=438241"},"modified":"2025-04-16T07:54:05","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T05:54:05","slug":"cole-anthony-leads-magic-past-hawks-and-into-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/cole-anthony-leads-magic-past-hawks-and-into-playoffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Cole Anthony leads Magic past Hawks and into playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong data-start=\"1357\" data-end=\"1373\">Cole Anthony<\/strong> came off the bench to pour in <strong data-start=\"1404\" data-end=\"1431\">26 points and 6 assists<\/strong>, helping the <strong data-start=\"1445\" data-end=\"1462\">Orlando Magic<\/strong> defeat the <strong data-start=\"1474\" data-end=\"1498\">Atlanta Hawks 120-95<\/strong> in the first round of the NBA play-in tournament.<\/p>\n<p>With the win, Orlando clinched the <strong data-start=\"1584\" data-end=\"1619\">Eastern Conference\u2019s No. 7 seed<\/strong> and will face the <strong data-start=\"1638\" data-end=\"1656\">Boston Celtics<\/strong> in the first round. <strong data-start=\"1677\" data-end=\"1695\">Paolo Banchero<\/strong> added 17 points, 9 rebounds and 7 assists.<\/p>\n<p><strong data-start=\"1739\" data-end=\"1753\">Trae Young<\/strong> led Atlanta with 28 points but was <strong data-start=\"1789\" data-end=\"1827\">ejected late in the fourth quarter<\/strong> after two technicals. The Hawks will host either Chicago or Miami on Friday to try and grab the final playoff spot.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Cole Anthony 26-3-6, 10\/17 FG, +32 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/885HtmSVGA\">pic.twitter.com\/885HtmSVGA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Brett Usher (@UsherNBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UsherNBA\/status\/1912341401620054498?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 16, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&#8220;I was happy to make the rotation I&#8217;m gonna be honest&#8221; \ud83d\ude4f<\/p>\n<p>After a huge game to help Orlando clinch a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NBAPlayoff?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NBAPlayoff<\/a> spot, Cole Anthony had nothing but gratitude \ud83e\udee1 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bBY0Aoba2Z\">pic.twitter.com\/bBY0Aoba2Z<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBA TV (@NBATV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBATV\/status\/1912342607725813795?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 16, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Orlando guard explodes for 26 points off the bench as the Magic claim the East\u2019s 7th seed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":438240,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[187],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-438241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","typology-video"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/04\/Screenshot-2025-04-16-alle-07.51.02.png","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438241"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=438241"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=438241"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=438241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}