Anthony Davis had 27 points and nine rebounds on Monday to help the visiting Washington Wizards hold on for a 103-94 victory over the Orlando Magic.
Kyshawn George added 22 points on four 3-pointers and AJ Dybantsa scored 21 for Washington, which has won back-to-back games for the first time this season. Trae Young collected 15 points and nine assists for the Wizards, who had dropped 13 of their last 14 against the Magic.
Franz Wagner led Orlando with 24 points, followed by Desmond Bane’s 20. Jamal Cain and Tristan da Silva scored 10 apiece for the Magic, who lost their third game in four tries and failed to score 100 points for the fourth time this season.
Washington used Deandre Ayton’s dunk and Davis’ back-to-back baskets to push its one-point halftime lead to eight with 5:37 left in the third.
Wagner’s layup and da Silva’s 3-pointer cut the deficit to 71-68, but a Bub Carrington triple and Young’s basket helped the Wizards take a 79-68 lead into the fourth.
The Magic scored just nine points in the third quarter and entered the final quarter having missed 18 of its last 20 3-point attempts.
Wagner converted a driving layup to pull the Magic within five with 3:45 left in the fourth, but George drilled a mid-range jumper and Dybantsa and Bilal Coulibaly flushed consecutive dunks to build a 99-88 advantage with 1:28 remaining.
After da Silva’s layup made it 99-90, Coulibaly iced the road win with a dunk off a George assist to punctuate the Wizards’ first win in Orlando since Dec. 30, 2022.
Nikola Vucevic scored five of Orlando’s nine straight points to end the first quarter and give the Magic a 33-28 lead entering the second.
Vucevic and Jase Richardson opened the second quarter with consecutive layups to push Orlando’s lead to nine. Washington then scored eight straight in just over a minute to pull within a point.
The Wizards took a 51-48 lead on Davis’ floater with 4:16 left in the first half.
After Davis’ four straight points gave the visitors a 60-57 edge, Wagner’s layup in the final seconds cut Orlando’s halftime deficit to one.
–Field Level Media
