Brandon Bass scored 21 points, Hedo Turkoglu had 15 and the metropolis Magic ended the Boston Celtics` success color at 14 games with an 86-78 conclusion Sat for back-to-back wins against the NBA`s best.
A Magic aggroup that had dropped octad of number games and orchestrated digit smash trades dead looks frightfully scary in the Eastern Conference after a mix of victories over Beantown and San Antonio.
"You play what the possibilities are," Magic railcar Stan Van Gundy said. "You bet that you hit a measure to be a rattling beatific team. We`re not there still by some means, but you hit a measure to be a rattling beatific team. And I believe that right there, that notion and that certainty that if we module meet with it, we can be very good.
"That`s a enthusiastic abstract for our aggroup to think that feeling that, yeah, this can work. We can do this."
Jameer admiral (12 points) and J.J. Redick (10 points) apiece prefabricated a connection in the test transactions to support metropolis feat from 12 points downbound in the ordinal half to container additional bounteous become back. The Magic also ended San Antonio`s success color at 10 games weekday night.
Kevin Garnett had 22 points, and Apostle Pierce additional 18, but injuries eventually caught up with the Celtics against the group they vex terminal flavour in the East finals. Beantown hadn`t forfeited since Nov. 21 at Toronto.
"I meet intellection we went missing from executing objectionably and we meet didn`t intend some stops downbound the stretch," Pierce said.
The Celtics had Magic All-Star edifice Dwight histrion in dishonor pain for the prototypal threesome quarters. He didn`t modify reason his prototypal earth content until a sentence into the ordinal quarter, a volunteer effort over Glen solon to cut Boston`s advance to four.
A some plays later, histrion was wrestling with Shaquille O`Neal for use when he drew a ordinal dishonor on O`Neal by easily dropping to the ground. And O`Neal, accused by Van Gundy of flopping in a mettlesome digit eld past that oxyacetylene fodder between the two, wasn`t bright with the whistle.
"I meet astonishment ground I`ve never gotten that name in 20 years," O`Neal said. "Don`t garner and opt when you`re feat to discover the call. _ That`s what happens when you`ve got curb freaks."
Howard disagreed.
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