The Magic traveled to the nation’s capital on Wednesday night for round two of a home-and-home set against the Wizards. Despite Wendell Carter Jr. and Mo Bamba being added to an already lengthy list of unavailable players Orlando would have liked their chances against Washington, themselves undermanned due to the absence of All-Star Bradley Beal. Unfortunately, however, a frigid opening term ultimately doomed them, the team struggling through a cold shooting night that ended in a six-point loss.
In what was one of the more absurd opening sequences to an NBA game, well, ever, the Magic missed their first eight shots from the field, reeling in offensive rebound after offensive rebound but continually coming up empty on a possession that stretched across 62 seconds.