Status: 03/18/2022 07:53 a.m
In the duel between the two currently weakest teams in the NBA’s Eastern Conference, the Orlando Magic lost out to the Detroit Pistons.
The team of German basketball pros Franz and Moritz Wagner lost at home on Thursday (local time) with 120:134 (62:73) and after the third defeat in a row remains at the bottom of the table.
Franz Wagner is the top scorer
The brothers still impressed: Franz Wagner advanced to Orlando’s top scorer with 26 points and thus marked the sixth-highest score of his debut season in the NBA. Eleven of Orlando’s first 24 points went to his account. Moritz Wagner started for the first time this season and scored 16 points.
With the Pistons, Saddiq Bey marked 51 points. This is the eighth time a player has scored at least 50 points in a game in March. The last time this happened in the NBA was in 1962, according to ESPN.
Those: sportschau.de