Magic Beat the Jazz 123-108: Franz Wagner Ties His Career High With 38 as Utah's Skid Reaches 10
Orlando closed its four-game road trip 2-2 with a second straight win in Salt Lake City. For Utah, the losing streak is now the league's longest kind of November: ten straight.
SALT LAKE CITY — Franz Wagner matched the best scoring night of his career on Wednesday, and the Orlando Magic closed their road trip with a win at Utah's expense. Wagner tied his career high with 38 points and added eight rebounds as Orlando beat the Jazz 123-108 in Salt Lake City, earning its second straight victory.
Wagner did not carry the night alone. Desmond Bane scored 25 points and Anthony Black chipped in 22 points and eight assists for the Magic, who finish their four-game road trip with a 2-2 record — a split that looks considerably better with two straight wins at the end of it than it did at the start.
For Utah, the arithmetic of November keeps getting heavier. The loss was the Jazz's 10th consecutive defeat, a skid that has turned a young season into a search for a single stabilizing night. A 15-point home loss, with the visiting team's best player tying his career high, was not that night.
The two teams leave the Delta Center in opposite directions: Orlando heads home with momentum and a .500 road trip salvaged, and Utah remains home with the streak intact and the next game now carrying the weight of the last ten.
