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Kind of smart from Paolo to align his timeline with Franz and Jalen. The player option is always going to be scary to Magic fans but we have this core for 5 years. If we haven't won by then Paolo would likely be requesting a trade either way player option or not. And if we do win at least one everything that happens after that is secondary to the fact that we won a championship finally.

Guessing the Clippers are getting Beal with that trade making room for him in the rotation.

He's washed. And we don't have the space.

What are the Jazz and Clippers doing here exactly? Powell is by far the best player in this trade.

Lately I've cooled on trading Jett in a dump if it's just to bring back Caleb or add a random vet minimum who you still wouldn't want to see on the court. Jett has been bad but there's still like a 10% chance he figures it out in year 3 and that's probably worth paying 5.5mil versus giving up an asset to dump him to pay someone else who we'd hope not to play. But if there was an impact vet who'd be willing to take something like the vet minimum then that's definitely the play. Beal is a great example.

Also seems like Prunty has got credit for some pretty creative out of bounds set plays too.

Haven't been able to find much on Prunty as a coach, whether he's the offensive assistant we're hoping for or not. I found a Khris Middleton quote from when he was interim HC of the Bucks where Middleton said that Prunty emphasised more side to side ball movement but nothing concrete on him being an offensive wizard or something.

I'm told the Bucks' Joe Prunty has emerged as a strong candidate to join Orlando's coaching staff. Prunty has been interim HC in Atlanta and Milwaukee and worked for five other teams after starting out in San Antonio. - Marc Stein.

This was definitely Cole lol

KCP + Cole into Bane + Tyus is a clear upgrade. Gary + Cory into Jase + Penda is weird because if you wanted to win an NBA game tomorrow you're probably taking the vets but Jase + Penda at least give you extra hope of growth. It's probably a downgrade in talent for this season but an upgrade in excitement and ceiling. Mac doesn't really factor in as we'll sign a 2 way to replace him (and he never played anyway). Weird how we went "win now" and got younger. Tyus Jones is the oldest guy on the team.

Rough math is bad math, I think its 3.75m under the first apron. Then I, incorrectly, assumed the maximum values of the Penda 2nd round exception (which starts at 2mil) were just the values, they can be lower starting at about 1.3mil which does leave us enough to bring Caleb or anyone back on the minimum.

Ok so we have like 2.5 mil under the first apron which is obviously mostly going to Noah Penda so barring any other moves this team is only carrying 14. So maybe a trade might still need to happen, or if they waive and stretch Jett they might be able to fit Caleb or another vet minimum in.

So glad I posted all that spiel about waiting for a trade lol

The answer is we don't know. Any team can realistically sign Caleb as he'll be looking at vet minimum money so it's not about cap space of other teams. It feels like there's some unforseen domino to fall around the league, like a big trade or something, because a lot of really solid NBA role players are still on the open market and there's been no major movement in days now. To bring back both Caleb and Mo (or Mo and any 15th man really) the Magic likely need to make a trade themselves to, at minimum, get off Jett's money. It's possible there are lots of trade talks going on including us in a move like that (or a more substantial move) but that any move we make is tied to a bigger move in the league somehow. No insider reports or buzz or anything, just kind of how I'm reading it. (Could be way off base who knows).

So that's 2 2way spots open with Mac cut loose. Summer league will be interesting on that level as well as the usual 'how do the rookies and sophomores look?'