Basketball:Franz Wagner’s Orlando Magic now last in the east
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Chicago (AP) – Franz Wagner from Orlando Magic did not screw up Billy Donovan’s return to the Chicago Bulls dugout in the North American basketball league NBA.
Instead, the home side won the eighth successive win at 102: 98. Donovan had last been in the league’s health and safety protocol and had to sit out five games as a result.
The Magic meanwhile fall back to 15th and last place in the Eastern Conference, although Franz Wagner again showed a decent performance with 22 points. His brother Moritz dropped out due to an illness.
Things went better for Maximilian Kleber’s Dallas Mavericks. The Texans prevailed at home with 103: 89 against the Denver Nuggets. In the third win in a row, Kleber got ten points.
However, there were defeats for the Houston Rockets of Daniel Theis and Isaiah Hartenstein’s Los Angeles Clippers. The Rockets, at the bottom of the pack in the west, are gradually losing ground with the Philadelphia 76ers’ 113: 133. Theis contributed seven points. The Clippers lost 104: 122 to the Minnesota Timberwolves, Hartenstein was out with an ankle injury.
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