Feel free to file this one in the random declaration with little merit file. When being interviewed by the Orlando Sentinel for a story about what downtown Orlando may look like in 2030, Orlando Magic CEO Alex Martins decreed that the Magic would have at least one NBA championship by the year 2030.
“I certainly believe by 2030 we will have won at least one championship,” Martins said. “And I say ‘at least.’ I firmly believe we’re going to get there and once you get there, you got the kind of team that hopefully can come back.”
In answering a question about the #Magic future, Alex Martins remains confident a title will be in Orlando by 2030: https://t.co/EEz0s5zco7
— Orlando Magic Daily (@OMagicDaily) December 13, 2016
You have to love his positivity and enthusiasm for a team that is currently 11-15 and hasn’t made the playoff since 2012.
Although they have never won a title, they did come close on two occasions making the NBA Finals in 1995 and 2009, and experiencing quicker success in the NBA than any other expansion team in recent memory.
It’s hard to project too far out into the future in a league with such high levels of player movement and shorter contracts, but who’s to say there won’t be a little magic in Orlando and a budding title contender will be built.
Thankfully for Martins, few will remember or he won’t even be in the role he is in now by the time the deadline rolls around for his prophecy.
