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Osceola Magic point guard Mac McClung averaged 25.4 points per game in nine November contests; he was named NBA G League Player of the Month for November. PHOTO/KATIE WILLIAMS
Even Stuff couldn't help the Osceola Magic Tuesday.
Stuff, the mascot for the Magic, was at the Silver Spurs Arena hanging with Swish, the NBA G League development league team's mascot, but it wasn't enough as Osceola lost its first home game of the season, 116-112 to the Texas Legends.
The Magic (6-4) trailed the Legends (3-7) by as 31, 92-61, late in the third quarter, but scored the last eight points of the game, and went on a 15-2 run in the fourth quarter to trim a 17-point lead to just two with 18 seconds to play when Brandon Williams knocked down a hook shot.
Williams and Trevelin Queen led Osceola with 22 points apiece. Miye Oni (19 points, 10 rebounds) collected his first triple double, and Daeqwon Plowden came off the bench to add 17. Orlando first-round draft pick Jett Howard was just 5-for-18 from the field but scored 17 points. Point guard Mac McClung was out of the lineup Tuesday.
Osceola will face the Oklahoma City Blue on Friday at the Paycom Center in Oklahoma City at 1 p.m. Eastern. The game will stream on NBAGLeague.com. The "day game" theme will continue when the Magic return to the SIlver Spurs on Wednesday, Dec. 13 for a "School Day" game at 10:30 a.m. against the Birmingham Squadron, the New Orleans Pelicans affilliate.
Magic's Mac McClung named NBA G League Player of the Month
Before Tuesday's game, the Osceola Magic announced Monday that the NBA G League selected point guard Mac McClung as the league's Player of the Month for November. It marks the first time that McClung has won the league’s top monthly honor in his career.
During November, McClung averaged 25.4 points, 4.3 rebounds and 5.7 assists in 35.5 minutes per game, while shooting .385 (30-78) from three-point range and .912 (31-34) from the free-throw line.
He led or tied the Magic in scoring three times, including a career-high and 44 points, which set a franchise single-game scoring record, as the Magic came from 26 points down in the second half against the Memphis Hustle to win 126-118 on Nov. 17.
This is the second league honor for an Osceola Magic players this season. Last week, Trevelin Queen was named the NBA G League Player of the Week after scoring exactly 100 points in three games of a Texas road trip, of which the Magic won two.
McClung won the 2022-23 NBA Slam Dunk Champion while with the Philadelphia 76ers.
