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The Magic and the Knicks will tip of at 7:00 pm EST at Amway Arena tonight. Click here to read my preview of the game.

Starters

Orlando

Dwight Howard
Rashard Lewis
Mickael Pietrus
Vince Carter
Jason Williams

New York

David Lee
Danilo Gallinari
Wilson Chandler
Larry Hughes
Chris Duhon

Final: Magic win 118-104.

• Recap and analysis still to come.

End of Third Quarter: Magic lead 92-70.

• Rashard Lewis and Mickael Pietrus were on fire. Each hit four 3-pointers in the quarter and Lewis was fouled one of 3-point attempt and hit all three free throws.
• Pietrus had 5 points at halftime. Lewis had 3.
• Lewis now has 20 points while Pietrus has 17.
• Dwight Howard has 19 points and 10 rebounds.
• The Magic made just two 3-pointers in the first quarter.

Halftime: Magic lead 51-39

• The Knicks have taken some bad shots.
• The Knicks were 7-of-29 (24%) while the Magic shot 9-of-20 (45%). New York is shooting just 35.6% from the field in the game. Orlando is shooting 53.5%.
• Dwight Howard has 13 points and 6 rebounds.
• Orlando has really show a lot of hustle tonight. The play that most showed this was Rashard Lewis’ block of a Danilo Gallinari’s breakaway dunk.
• Brandon Bass dominated on the inside, scoring 9 points on 4-of-6 shooting in just 8 minutes. He and Howard are the primary reason that Orlando is dominating in the paint.
• Orlando is outrebounding the Knicks 28-22, but allowed the Knicks to grab 8 offensive rebounds after the Knicks failed to grab an offensive board in the first quarter.
• Bass originally check in at Center, but when Howard entered the game, he moved to Power Forward and pushed Rashard Lewis to the 3.

End of First Quarter: Magic lead 31-23

• The Magic have been very aggressive taking the ball to the basket.
• The Magic have 22 points in the paint to New York’s 6.
• The Magic really tried to establish Dwight Howard early – and they have.
• Dwight Howard scored 9 of Orlando’s first 13 points, is 5-of-5 from the field and has 11 points.
• Both teams are shooting very well form the field but Orlando is 14-of-23 while the Knicks have only attempted 16 shots, making 9.

• The Magic will be wearing everyone’s favorite throwback jerseys – black with white pin stripes.
• It is 70’s night here at Amway.
• I got a small interview with current Knicks and former Florida State Guard Toney Douglas that will be posted either today or tomorrow night.

(Andrew Melnick Howard the Dunk’s lead blogger and a contributor at NFL Mocks Subscribe to his RSS feed and add him on Twitter to follow him daily.)