ORLANDO – Riding an easy, breezy three-game winning streak coming into Friday and about to face the injury-riddled Memphis Grizzlies, the Orlando Magic might have been lulled into believing that another cakewalk of a victory was all but a certainty.
That belief was all but buried for the first three quarters of Friday as the shorthanded Grizzlies poured in shots from all corners of the Amway Center and stormed to an improbable 17-point edge on the stunned Magic.
The Magic used a furious, fourth-quarter rally to get the game tied and into overtime, and in the extra period they rode the clutch play of veterans Nikola Vucevic, Evan Fournier and D.