{"id":6293,"date":"2020-02-10T17:00:26","date_gmt":"2020-02-10T22:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=6293"},"modified":"2020-02-10T17:00:42","modified_gmt":"2020-02-10T22:00:42","slug":"johnson-and-magette-named-to-eastern-conference-midseason-all-nba-g-league-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2020\/02\/10\/johnson-and-magette-named-to-eastern-conference-midseason-all-nba-g-league-team\/","title":{"rendered":"JOHNSON AND MAGETTE NAMED TO EASTERN CONFERENCE MIDSEASON ALL-NBA G LEAGUE TEAM"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The NBA G League announced today that Orlando&nbsp;Magic&nbsp;Two-Way player BJ Johnson and Lakeland Magic player Josh Magette have been named to the Eastern Conference Midseason All-NBA G League Team, as voted on by NBA G League coaches and general managers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"967\" height=\"1024\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 967px) 100vw, 967px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/1200px-Lakeland_Magic_logo.svg_-967x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/1200px-Lakeland_Magic_logo.svg_-967x1024.png 967w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/1200px-Lakeland_Magic_logo.svg_-283x300.png 283w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/1200px-Lakeland_Magic_logo.svg_-768x813.png 768w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/1200px-Lakeland_Magic_logo.svg_.png 1200w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Johnson&nbsp;currently leads the NBA G League in points per game. In 22 games played for the Lakeland&nbsp;Magic&nbsp;this season, Johnson has averaged 23.7 points, 6.2 rebounds and 2.0 steals, averaging 35.9 minutes per game.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Magette currently leads the NBA G League in assists per game. In 23 games played for the Lakeland&nbsp;Magic&nbsp;this season, Magette has averaged 20.4 points, 10.3 assists and 2.0 steals, averaging&nbsp;34.8 minutes per game.&nbsp;Last month, he moved into second place on the NBA G League&nbsp;all-time assists leaderboard. Magette was also named NBA G League Player of the Week in December.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Johnson and Magette have helped lead the Lakeland Magic to the top of the Southeastern Division with a 19-15 record<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Lakeland&nbsp;Magic&nbsp;are back at home on Friday, February 21 to take on the Long Island Nets. Tip-off at the RP Funding Center is set for 7:00 PM. The game will be available on NBAGLeague.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lakeland&nbsp;Magic&nbsp;single-game tickets and group tickets are available now. For ticket information, visit&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/lakelandmagic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">lakelandmagic.com<\/a>&nbsp;or call&nbsp;863.825.3258.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NBA G League announced today that Orlando&nbsp;Magic&nbsp;Two-Way player BJ Johnson and Lakeland Magic player Josh Magette have been named to the Eastern Conference Midseason All-NBA G League Team, as&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lakeland-magic"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}