WASHINGTON — Paolo Banchero is finishing strong in his bid for Rookie of the Year honors.

Banchero had 30 points and 12 rebounds, Markelle Fultz added 25 points and the Orlando Magic overcame a 16-point second half deficit to beat the Washington Wizards 116-109 on Friday night.

The Wizards managed only 13 points in the final quarter and fell to three games behind Chicago for the final play-in spot in the Eastern Conference with five games remaining. Orlando remained four games behind the Bulls, who routed Charlotte 121-91.

Banchero, the No. 1 pick in last year’s draft out of Duke, is the clear favorite to win Rookie of the Year, and Fultz gave him an endorsement.

“I think you just see it, playing both ends of the floor, being able to create, being confident and poised,” Fultz said. “I don’t really think it’s any discussion about it, but of course people got to vote.”

Washington was without its top three players — Bradley Beal (left knee), Kristaps Porzingis (illness) and Kyle Kuzma (right ankle).

Corey Kispert scored a career-high 27 points for Washington but did not manage a shot attempt in the fourth until the final minute. He made nine of the Wizards’ 17 3-pointers.

Washington scored the first 13 points of the third quarter and led 76-60. The Magic cut the lead to three later in the quarter but the Wizards were up 96-85 entering the fourth.

In that final period, however, Orlando shut Washington down. The Wizards went 1 of 11 from long distance in the fourth and 5 of 23 from the field.

“Some of the shots we were passing up, we’ve got to just take them, make or miss,” Wizards guard Delon Wright said. “I feel like that was the biggest thing — just not being confident in some of the shots we were taking.”

The Magic finally took a 105-103 lead on a 3-pointer by Cole Anthony. That was part of a 13-2 run that put Orlando up by eight.

Anthony scored seven of his 16 points in the fourth.

“That midrange, I think we found a time in the possessions that it was a clean look, it was the right look,” Magic coach Jamahl Mosley said. “His ability to walk in there and step in there with confidence is what we’ve asked him to do.”