Disappointed that the Orlando Magic rank 26th in offensive efficiency? So are the Orlando Magic. In the face of these offensive woes, the team hopes to land a scorer in a midseason trade, according to the Orlando Sentinel‘s Josh Robbins: The Orlando Magic will sift through the trade market in an effort to add a [...]
December 7, 2016
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The Magic have finally done what pretty much everyone eventually expected them to do: Move Nikola Vucevic to the bench. And he isn’t happy about it. Per Zach Oliver of the Orlando Pinstriped Post: [tweet https://twitter.com/ZachOliverNBA/status/803063544300392448] Bismack Biyombo took Vucevic’s spot in the starting five for the Magic’s Sunday night loss to the Milwaukee Bucks, [...]
November 28, 2016
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Serge Ibaka is committed to the Orlando Magic. How committed? Really committed, per Josh Robbins of the Orlando Sentinel: The biggest acquisition of the Orlando Magic’s 2016 offseason indicated on Monday that he has no plans to go elsewhere when he becomes an unrestricted free agent in 2017. “I’m looking to stay here to play [...]
September 27, 2016
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The Orlando Magic’s official Twitter account decided it would be a fun idea to ask their fans to describe the Magic’s offseason in three words. They wanted fans to tweet the team’s twitter account with the hashtag #2016in3words and the results were absolutely disastrous. Unsurprisingly, many fans are none too pleased with the bizarre offseason [...]
July 18, 2016
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Stan Van Gundy isn’t just the coach and president of the Detroit Pistons. He’s a certified O.G. The Pistons absolutely fleeced the Orlando Magic in Tuesday’s Tobias Harris trade, relinquishing only Brandon Jennings and Ersan Ilyasova. Jennings is on an expiring contract and was good as gone from Detroit, and Ilyasova’s salary for next season [...]
February 17, 2016
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Here we come, NBA All-Star break. Which means here comes the NBA playoffs! More than half of the Association’s 2015-16 season is in the books, and save for a cluster of steady teams at the top of our power rankings, the league’s hierarchy knows no order. For every certainty like the Warriors, Spurs, Cavaliers and [...]
February 11, 2016
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Meet those who will revive the NBA dunk contest. Or something. Sources gave Cleveland.com’s Chris Haynes a preview of next Saturday’s dunk-contest lineup, and he was kind enough to share his intel: The field for the NBA Slam Dunk Contest scheduled for Feb. 13 in Toronto is set, according to league sources. The defending champion [...]
February 4, 2016
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What time is it? NBA power rankings time. A lot has happened since we last met. All-Star rosters were finalized. The Warriors refused to lose. The Suns refused to let Jeff Hornacek keep his job. The Cavaliers found their mojo. The Bulls forgot how to score. The Spurs unleashed Kyle Anderson. The Knicks proved they’re [...]
February 3, 2016
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Channing Frye is apparently a hot commodity. According to the Sporting News’ Sean Deveney, interest in the Orlando Magic’s 32-year-old stretch big is high: Now, league sources tell Sporting News, changes could be coming to the Magic’s promising young roster ahead of this month’s trading deadline. Already, the team has received multiple inquiries on big [...]
February 2, 2016
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Like many NBAers whose shelf life expires, Jason Maxiell is now earning his basketball money overseas in the Chinese Basketball Association. Apparently, if there’s one thing we should know about Maxiell, it’s that he doesn’t like being fouled hard. Watch as Maxiell chases an opponent the entire length of the court after a hard foul. [...]
January 29, 2016
Anou Enright
Offbeat