Clippers vs. Magic Game Day 2026-02-22

Orlando Magic

29-26 • 11-15 road

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LA Clippers

27-29 • 14-11 home

Intuit Dome, Inglewood, CA · 6:00 PM PT · TV: FanDuel SN FL / FanDuel SN SoCal / NBA TV

Spread: LAC -2.5 ·O/U: 214.5

Magic

115.3 PPG

Clippers

112.1 PPG

Team Leaders

Magic

Paolo Banchero 21.6 PPG

Paolo Banchero 8.5 RPG

Jalen Suggs 5.4 APG

Clippers

Kawhi Leonard 27.8 PPG

Kawhi Leonard 6.3 RPG

Kawhi Leonard 3.7 APG

Key Matchup

Kawhi Leonard (27.8 PPG, 6.3 RPG, 3.7 APG, 2.0 SPG, 0.5 BPG) vs Paolo Banchero (21.6 PPG, 8.5 RPG, 4.9 APG, 0.7 SPG, 0.7 BPG)

Injury Report

Magic

Day-To-Day: Jalen Suggs

Out: Franz Wagner

Clippers

Day-To-Day: Kawhi Leonard

Out: John Collins

Out: Darius Garland

Out: Bradley Beal

Season Series: ORL leads 1-0

The Clippers (14-11 at home) host the Magic, who are 11-15 on the road. LAC is favored by 2.5 points.

What are your predictions? Are there any injury/player availability updates?

Kawhi will play despite the sore ankle, but Collins will be out after that nasty fall last game.

Clippers staying in range here. Step back by Mathurin cuts it back to 2.

Kawhi looked good in the first half, Clips though down 57-53 at the half. Gotta start hitting from deep- 1 of 11 thus far.

Good D forcing the ball away from Banchero, and Kawhi drills the bingo to put the Clips on top

Kobe Sanders the flip layup over his head

Bane chucks in a 28 footer, now 4 for 5 from deep. He has doubled the Clippers' 3 point makes.

Lol Lopez doesn't even jump on that little hook shot

Good effort there by Sanders and Jones pinballing the rebound to keep it alive

That's a nice play by Sanders- spin inside and a perfect dish to Mathurin for the corner bingo!

Mathurin the tough turnaround over 2 defenders at the buzzer! With that, Clips take a one point lead going into the 4th

Orlando really turning up the D, pretty much a full court press, and it's caused a couple of Clipper turnovers here

Niederhauser puts back Kawhi's miss- should've been an and-1

Niederhauser, bingoooooooo!

Kawhi carrying his team, drive and little J unties the game. This is some back and forth battle here- let's see if the guys can prevail in the clutch.

Big hoop by Miller with the lefty floater inside, now a big time strip by Jones Jr to save the layup!

Kawhi with a clutch top of the key J, 107-105 Clips.

Niderhauser keeps getting switched on Bane, and gets a tough goaltend call there. Ouch- 109-107 Magic with a minute 28 to go. Surprised that Lopez hasn't come back in.

Ouch. They double Kawhi who dumps it to Yanic but he misses the floater. Magic run the other way and the Clips are in a boatload of trouble now, down 4 with 40 ticks left.

I'm puzzled why Lopez is not in there, but Kawhi the little J, cuts it to 2, 28 seconds to go.

No foul on that Mathurin 3? Challenge it!

Great block by Yanic but Math's 3 just a bit long- no foul I guess. Tough, tough loss as the Clips went cold down the stretch. Super cold from deep the whole game.

That's a tough one to drop. Without their full roster, that team is extremely limited.

I don't think we did a great job of running guys off the 3 point line, too many open looks.

Happy about the way our guys fought though. These games are exciting. Sucks without Garland.

I'm also glad Kobe got back out there again. He's a difference maker with the hustle plays.

Highlights from the game:

I love this team. So refreshing after 213 they need another shooter or two