ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) – Paul Pierce is the biggest reason Boston’s losing streak is over and Orlando’s is still going.

Pierce scored 15 of his game-high 30 points in the fourth quarter and the Celtics ended a four-game slide Wednesday night with a 94-92 win over the Magic, who have now dropped 14 straight.

“Paul really got very, very hot,” Celtics coach Jim O’Brien said. “I thought they were right in his face with a hand up on his shots, but sometimes he gets in a zone where he just kills people. It was very hard to guard him tonight. He really carried us.”

In the fourth period, Pierce was 6-of-8 from the field and 3-of-4 from the line, and added four rebounds and two assists.

Orlando, meanwhile, hasn’t won since the season-opener against the New York Knicks. The Magic are 0-8 at home.

Tracy McGrady led Orlando with 24 points, but scored just two in the final period before fouling out with 3:11 left. McGrady, who sat out the last game with the flu, didn’t take a shot from the field in the fourth quarter. His only points came on a pair of free throws.

“I don’t like moral victories, but this was a huge step forward,” McGrady said. “We re looking more like a team. The effort is definitely there. We just got to find a way to win a game.”

The teams traded spurts for three quarters until Pierce took over in the fourth. The Celtics didn’t have a field goal the last five minutes of the third quarter, but Vin Baker ended the streak with an 18-footer at the 11:21 mark of the fourth quarter.

Pierce scored 13 of Boston’s next 15 points, hitting five straight jumpers from at least 17 feet. His last basket opened an 85-78 lead for the Celtics with 6:10 left.

“I finally took advantage of my opportunities,” Pierce said. “I’ve been letting this team down, but I knew that somehow, some way, we had to come out of this building with a win, and we did.”

The Magic switched to a zone to slow Pierce down in the final minutes. Orlando pulled within two points three times in the last two minutes. The last came on a jump hook by Drew Gooden with 27.4 seconds to play that made it 94-92.

But McGrady had fouled out by then and the Magic were out of timeouts, so even though they forced a shot-clock violation, they had only 3.4 seconds to go the length of the floor. Tyronn Lue got just past halfcourt when he launched a shot at the buzzer that missed badly.

“Teams are definitely coming in here thinking they don’t want to be the team that we end our losing streak on,” McGrady said. “I felt like Boston sensed that at the end and Paul took over. We were right there, but they made the plays.”