The Orlando Magic take on a possibly undermanned Milwaukee Bucks team as they continue to try to come together and build with their new roster. Orlando Magic (17-35) vs.
At 26 years old, Gary Harris is hardly an old man in the NBA. It feels a bit off to call him a veteran. So long as Harris stays healthy, his best basketball is still probably ahead of him.
Former Magic center Khem Birch has officially cleared waivers and will join the Raptors for the remainder of the season, Toronto announced on Twitter. Birch is excited to join the Raptors: The Raptors inherit the $3M expiring contract Birch had with Orlando.
The timing of defense is everything. How quickly players diagnose a play, react and execute can be the difference between a strong defensive stand or one that peters out quickly and gives up an open shot.
Despite hanging tight for most of the night, the Gary Harris era opens with a loss New faces, new uniforms, new lineups … the tilt against the Pacers featured plenty of firsts for the new-look Magic.
Porter will spend the rest of the season in Orlando
The Orlando Magic prepare to debut the final piece of their trade deadline haul as Gary Harris plays his first game in a Magic uniform against the Indiana Pacers.
The Orlando Magic’s decision to trade away Nikola Vucevic at the deadline sent shockwaves around the NBA. The instant reaction among the team’s fanbase was mixed, to say the least.
The Orlando Magic probably never would have reached whatever little levels of success they have in the last three years without Khem Birch. To no one’s surprise, he has embodied everything the Magic’s program has been about to coach Steve Clifford.
For most of the last two months, Cole Anthony has been a mainstay on the sideline. Nobody was more pumped for his team’s success and was there to pump his teammates up quite like Anthony.
Birch, 28, was a key part of the Magic’s rotation earlier in the season, serving as Nikola Vucevic‘s primary backup and averaging 6.9 PPG and 6.0 RPG in 22.0 minutes per game through his first 28 contests.
The Orlando Magic could feel the energy building in the fourth quarter. They had reduced a 21-point deficit all the way down to five on the back of a lineup full of young players.
Cole Anthony returned and Mo Bamba had a career night The Magic lost the game. But at this stage and with this team, we’re looking for flashes. And we got a few as the Magic returned home after a long road trip.
Anthony, the son of former NBA player and current broadcaster Greg Anthony, was drafted out of University of North Carolina by the Magic with the 15th overall pick last fall.
The Orlando Magic return home from their road trip to take on the Washington Wizards in a game with minor standings implications and the hope of Cole Anthony’s return.
Orlando Magic coach Steve Clifford has proven himself in this league as a coach who builds foundations. As has oft been repeated, Clifford’s teams are hard to play against because they do the fundamental things well.
The Orlando Magic have signed point guard Devin Cannady to a 10-day contract, the team announced in a release. Cannady, 24, is 6-foot-2 and went undrafted out of Princeton in 2019.
New faces, better results. For the second time in a week, the remade Orlando Magic picked up a big win on the road. This one came over the New Orleans Pelicans, 115-110, in overtime at the Smoothie King Center.
The Orlando Magic made a big decision at this most recent trade deadline. They blew up their current core to build for the future. They traded away Nikola Vucevic, Evan Fournier, and Aaron Gordon, arguably their three best players.
One of the biggest and most unexpected moves of the trade deadline went down between the Chicago Bulls and the Orlando Magic, as Arturas Karnisovas managed to lure Nikola Vucevic away for multiple first-round picks and a deal centered around Wendell Carter Jr and Otto Porter Jr.
It's unclear when Fournier will be eligible to make his Boston debut. After Saturday's contest, the Celtics play again on Monday against the New Orleans Pelicans and Wednesday against the Dallas Mavericks.
The Magic acquired Jeff Teague from the Celtics in the Evan Fournier trade. However, the veteran guard won't play a single game for the franchise.
It’s a tough day to be named Gary if you wanted to stay with your former team, it seems.
The Magic were 15-29 before trading three of their best players, so you can understand why Ross reacted that way. Assuming he isn’t traded next, he’s in for a long remainder of the season.
The 25-year-old is in his seventh season with the Magic.
The trade rumors may be swirling, but don’t expect Nikola Vucevic to be going anywhere. It’s unlikely that any big-name players will be moved, due to salary cap restrictions, and also the uncertainty about revenue going forward, due to the effects from the pandemic.
Gordon could move soon, but what we have, overall, is a vast disparity between the imagination and desires of roster construction possibilities and the realities of them.
With the team stuck between irrelevance and attempting to start a rebuild, there’s a chance that the Orlando Magic could pull off a Nikola Vucevic trade this week.
The Magic have held serious discussions with the Houston Rockets involving Gordon, and he has no shortage of suitors.
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