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2024/25 National Basketball Association (NBA) season
Regular Season
Boston Celtics v Orlando Magic
TD Garden
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Saturday, 18 January 2025
02h00
Boston Celtics will face off with the Orlando Magic in the
National Basketball Association (NBA) regular season match on 18 January.
Head-to-Head
This will be the 132nd meeting between the two teams in the regular season since their first game in the 1989/90 campaign - the Magic's debut NBA season.
The Celtics have the edge in this rivalry having recorded 75 wins compared to the Magic's 56 victories from 131 matches.
Most recent meeting
The Orlando Magic defeated the Boston Celtic, 108-104 at the Kia Center in Orlando, Florida on 24 December.
Reigning NBA champions Celtics were missing Jayson Tatum because of an illness.
Key Players
The Celtics will look to their influential power forward Jayson Tatum who won the inaugural NBA Eastern Conference finals MVP in 2022 and won his first title in the 2024 NBA Finals.
Meanwhile, the Magic's key player is Tristan da Silva who scored 18 points and made a critical 3-pointer with 9.9 seconds left, and his team rallied from a 15-point halftime deficit against the Celtics on 24 December.
Quotes
“I think that’s the luxury that we have of playing in front of the best friends in the arena, regardless of if we playing TNT or we playing a team that’s 8 and 30,” Tatum said after the Celtics defeated the New Orleans Pelicans on 13 January.
“They bring the passion, they bring the energy. So we always can feed off the crowd and feed off the fans from the finals game to a preseason game. So that’s never in question, the energy that we can get from the crowd.”
NBA fixtures - 18-19 January
Saturday, 18 January
02:00 - Boston Celtics v Orlando Magic
02:30 - New York Knicks v Minnesota Timberwolves
03:00 - Chicago Bulls v Charlotte Hornets
03:00 - Miami Heat v Denver Nuggets
03:00 - Milwaukee Bucks v Toronto Raptors
03:00 - New Orleans Pelicans v Utah Jazz
03:30 - Dallas Mavericks v Oklahoma City Thunder
04:30 - San Antonio Spurs v Memphis Grizzlies
05:30 - Los Angeles Lakers v Brooklyn Nets
23:00 - Detroit Pistons v Phoenix Suns
Sunday, 19 January
02:00 - Boston Celtics v Atlanta Hawks
02:00 - Indiana Pacers v Philadelphia 76ers
03:30 - Golden State Warriors v Washington Wizards
04:00 - Minnesota Timberwolves v Cleveland Cavaliers
05:00 - Portland Trail Blazers v Houston Rockets
22:00 - Miami Heat v San Antonio Spurs
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