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For several years now, we have speculated about how much coaching (in addition to injuries) was or was not responsible for the Magic not doing better than they did. With the roster almost unchanged from last season, this is about as close to a controlled experiment as you’ll ever see in professional sports, and I’m looking forward to seeing how it turns out. The magic being consistently bad on offense has also been a regular feature of the last few years. Going to be very interesting to see if that changes, or if nothing really changes because it’s mainly due to our roster.

Probably makes decent NIL money. If so, returning to school makes total sense for him.

It will soon be time to retire this thread after another seemingly endless offseason. Hope we start to see more action here soon. Happy Media Day, everyone! (Tomorrow)

Media day a week from tomorrow, and training camp starts the following day. We’re just about there.

We are deep into the summer doldrums at this point. But barring some unexpected player moves, the roster appears to be completely set for the upcoming season. And so we probably have enough information to try to make predictions about next season, starting with number of wins. Vegas has us in the 43-44 range. My prediction is 48 wins. Would be nice if I’m low.

Orlando Magic Sign Free Agents Malaki Branham and JD Davison Championship here we come!!

Fortunately for them, they have a plethora of big name guards on that team. Hard to imagine how they’d have enough playing time for all of them anyway.

Thank you for letting us know. Good time for maintenance, not much going on this time of year.

I practically fell off my chair laughing :)

Personally, don’t think he’s worth keeping for that amount, but maybe he’ll prove me wrong this season.

Glad to hear it, but I don’t know how many of these clips I’ve seen over the years of players working on something over the summer and supposedly becoming much better. I’ll take it all with a heavy grain of salt until we see how it translates into actual NBA games.

Have there been any updates on the Franz ankle injury? I know the assumption is it should be completely healed by now, but given how the thing dragged on over the regular season, it would be good to get some confirmation.

Fully agree

Nobody on the Magic made NBA first or second summer league teams. https://www.nba.com/news/2026-nba-summer-league-teams-announced

I agree. And this is not based on 20/20 hindsight. The pick was widely panned at the time, including by many of us here in this forum.