Today's Game: Magic @ Cavaliers

Magic (47-28) vs. Cavaliers (42-33)

Quicken Loans Arena

3 PM

ESPN

Probable Lineups:

Howard C Ilguauskas

Lewis PF Wallace

Turkoglu SF James

Evans SG Brown

Nelson PG West

Today's afternoon matchup of the #3 and #4 seed in the East, is a pivotal game for both teams. If the Magic win today, we clinch the #3 seed with 6 games remaining after this one. Winning this game puts us heading into a pretty easy stretch before the playoffs. We face New York, Chicago, Minnesota, then Chicago again, Atlanta, and then lastly Washington. All except Washington are sub .500 teams, with the Wizards being only 2 games over .500; so the remaining schedule isn't too tough.

These two teams matchup pretty well. In our last meeting, in Orlando, Dwight and Rashard led the way with 23 and 21 respectively. Its tough to have Ben Wallace chase around Rashard Lewis, so we do have an advantage there. James had 30, but thats expected. Ilgauskas wasn't himself in our last meeting, only scoring five points. Look for that total and his touches to improve. Dwight should do a good job besting him. Ilgauskas is averaging 18.6 points and 8.9 rebounds in his last eight games.

The Magic and Cavaliers will each look to avoid their fifth loss in seven games when they meet Saturday afternoon at Quicken Loans Arena. James is nearly averaging a triple-double in three games against Orlando this season - 32.7 points, 10.0 assists and 9.7 rebounds - but the Cavaliers have lost two of three. Orlando has won five of seven in the series, including its last two in Cleveland.