SPORTS DIGEST

Magic clinch No. 7 seed

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Franz Wagner scored 23 points, Cole Anthony came off the bench with 18 points and the Orlando Magic beat the Boston Celtics 96-76 on Wednesday night to clinch seventh place in the Eastern Conference and the top spot in the play-in tournament.

Baylor Scheierman and Payton Pritchard scored 15 points each to lead the Celtics, who did not use their top six players and made 7 of 40 3-point shots.

Jayson Tatum, Jaylen Brown, Kristaps Porzingis, Derrick White, Jrue Holiday and Al Horford did not play for the Celtics.

Paolo Banchero had 15 points and six assists for the Magic. It was Wagner’s 12th straight game of scoring 20 or more points.

Guerrero, Blue Jays finalize deal Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and the Toronto Blue Jays finalized their $500 million, 14-year contract that starts in 2026, a deal with a record $325 million signing bonus that protects the money from a possible work stoppage in 2027.

Toronto announced the deal Wednesday and scheduled a news conference for Monday at the Rogers Centre ahead of its next home game.

Before speaking about his new deal ahead of Toronto’s 2-1, 11-inning win at Boston on Wednesday, Guerrero’s thoughts were of his native Dominican Republic, where at least 98 people died and 160 were injured in the roof collapse at a nightclub.

“I want to send my condolences for those families that lost a loved one in that tragedy. … That my heart, my soul is with my entire country right now,” he said.

The 26-year-old Guerrero admitted there was a sense of relief in getting the long-term deal done.

“If I tell you that it’s not a big relief, I’d be lying to you,” he said. “It’s always been my goal to be here. And I feel like I accomplished that, and I’m very, very happy to stay here and to be a Blue Jay.

“It wasn’t that hard. Like, I would say maybe, I was just trusting the process, every step with my family, my agents, my close ones. I mean, have faith, everything, the outcome was going to be good. So, I mean, trust, I was trusting everything. But thank God, it went well.”

U.S. women rout Finland at Worlds CESKE BUDEJOVICE, Czech Republic (AP) — Hayley Scamurra and Kelly Pannek scored two goals each as the United States routed Finland 7-1 in their opening game at the women’s hockey world championship on Wednesday.

Captain Hilary Knight, making her 15th world championship appearance, and Taylor Heise both had a goal and an assist, and Lee Stecklein also scored for the U.S.

Goaltender Aerin Frankel saved 19 shots in a Group A match between last year’s runner-up U.S. and the bronze medalist.

Petra Nieminen scored the lone goal for Finland on a power play.

“It was a big win,” Knight said. “Finland’s a great team, and we had all lines, all D-pairings going, which is really nice, and some great individual performances.”