Basketball Daily

The Orlando Magic hosted the Cleveland Cavaliers in their latest meeting.  These two teams are the cream of the crop in the East, and in the first two quarters they proved that.  It was a back and forth battle that was very entertaining with high level play.  In the second half, the Magic showed just how talented they are by dominating on offense an defense.  They blew the game wide open and came away with a win quite handily with a final score of 99-88.

Leading the way in scoring for Orlando was Dwight Howard with 22 points.  He also owned the boards picking up 18 rebounds.  Both Hedu Turkoglu and Rashard Lewis had 19 points.  Jameer Nelson contributed 18 points and was also named as an Allstar reserve for the first time in his career.  The Magic improve their record to 35 wins and 10 losses on the season.