Orlando Magic Afternoon Notes: Boston-Orlando Breakdown, Bass Trade Rumors

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Sebastian Pruiti, who is a writer for Nets Are Scorching and has helped HTD preview this season’s Nets-Magic games by exchanging questions with me, has a second gig writing for NBA Playbook. He has a great video breakdown of Orlando’s third quarter explosion against the Boston Celtics Sunday afternoon.

At halftime of the Celtics-Magic game, it looked like Boston was pulling away turning this game into a blowout. The Celtics had just outscored the Magic by 10 points in the second quarter, and they went into halftime with an 11 point lead. The Magic came out in the third quarter, and the game did turn into a blowout, just the other way around. The Magic outscored the Celtics in the third 36 to 11. Lets look at how they did it:

You can find that here.

Alex Kennedy, HTD’s friend from Hoops World, was told by Brandon Bass’ agent that Bass won’t be traded before the deadline.

I spoke with Brandon’s agent over the weekend and he assured me that Bass is not getting traded. Both sides still want to make the situation in Orlando work and believe that a split at this point would be premature. Bass isn’t moving before the deadline.

Kennedy answered some other Magic questions in his weekly chat.

You can read the full news and notes post from this morning here.

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