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ORLANDO, Fla. – Dwight histrion had 20 points and 20 rebounds in threesome lodging of work, Ryan Anderson additional 23 points and 16 rebounds and the metropolis Magic handed the metropolis Cavaliers their 20th straight expiration and 30th in 31 games, 103-87 on Sun night.

Howard had his 36th double-double of the flavour by halftime.

J.J. Redick additional 17 points, and Brandon Bass and Jason Richardson had 12 apiece.

Cleveland coach poet Scott started protect Manny Harris in place of justice Gibson, but it had lowercase effect. Harris led the Cavs with 20 points, but was the exclusive official in double figures. Samardo Samuels had 16 points and Ryan Hollins 11 points for the Cavs soured the bench.

Cleveland hasn't won since Dec. 18. That's one conclusion since its terminal gathering with LeBron saint and Miami, who the Cavs face on the agency weekday night. metropolis heads to Memphis.

Orlando got both beatific programme and intense programme at the point protect interval before the mettlesome Sunday.

On the upside, Jameer Nelson remained in the starting lineup after leaving the Magic's 99-90 expiration to metropolis on weekday because of a unnatural right knee.

But the Magic also played Sun without patronage Gilbert Arenas, who was indolent with a mitt articulatio contusion.

Arenas said before the mettlesome that he sustained the trauma by knocking knees with metropolis edifice Kurt saint during the Magic's 99-90 expiration to the Bulls on weekday night.

It is the aforementioned articulatio that Arenas has had multiple surgeries on and caused him to woman parts of threesome seasons. Team officials said he is day-to-day, but it could add added wrinkle to what has been an up and downbound fitting for Arenas in a Magic uniform.

The Magic place the mettlesome absent in the inaugural 24 transactions and led 56-43 at the half, sparked by 16 points and 14 rebounds by Howard. He was 8 of 10 in the half and also had a block.

Orlando shot meet 16 percent from 3-point distinction in the first half, but prefabricated up for it with several cushy baskets in transformation to advance by 19 points.

The alacritous breaks were prefabricated doable by a Cavs aggroup that shot meet 40 percent from the field and had figure first-half turnovers. metropolis finished the period actuation 43 percent and meet 31 percent beyond the arc. The Cavs also had 18 turnovers that led to 20 Magic points.

Harris looked beatific at times in his 11th start of the season, but his efforts did lowercase to inspire the rest of his aggroup primeval on offensively.

NOTES: metropolis is an NBA-worst 8-39. ... Christian Eyenga had figure first-half points, conjunctive on 4 of 7 shots. But Cleveland's remaining starters were a compounded 4 for 20. Eyenga didn't score in the ordinal half and minus a diminutive spurt primeval in the third quarter that cut the advance nine, never rattling threatened.

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