Since the Magic acquired Vince Carter and Hedo Turkoglu subsequently signed with the Toronto Raptors, analysts and fans have been criticizing the move that brought Carter to Orlando. Most sportswriters have suggested that it would have been a better move to throw all of the money at Turkoglu and keep rookie standout Courtney Lee rather [...]

The Magic doubters are out in full force. Many of the questions about the Magic were discussed last week. You can see that here. Now, Bill Simmons is back at it. After the 2nd round of the NBA playoffs last season, Simmons told his readers not to think that the Magic were good because they [...]

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The Orlando Magic and CJ Watson would still like to strike a deal that would allow Watson play for the Magic next season but each day, the deal seems less and less likely to happen. As reported last week, the two parties don’t seem match up financially. After the Magic signed Matt Barnes to a [...]

CJ Watson is young, having just turned 25 years old. He had a good season last year, playing in 77 games, starting 18. He averaged 9.5 PPG, 2.7 APG and 2.5 RPG. The other day, I mentioned that Watson was rated as the 9th best backup PG in the NBA by the Official Examiner. He [...]

According to Marc Stein of his ESPN.com, his sources say that the Orlando Magic are close to finalizing a deal with Free Agent SF Matt Barnes.
One source told ESPN.com that Barnes and the Magic have agreed in principle on a two-year deal for an undisclosed amount that could be announced as early as Tuesday.
This is [...]

Once again, many of the “experts” are doubting the Orlando Magic. After nearly every NBA analyst in the country was proved wrong after picking the Magic to lose their 2nd round series to the Boston Celtics and the Eastern Conference Finals to the Cleveland Cavaliers, these critics have found several new ways to question the [...]

After all of the talk of Ric Bucher and Jared Dudley’s twitter conversation about Matt Barnes’ next destination (Dudley said he’d be going to Atlanta or Cleveland), it seems like Barnes has three teams from which to choose from. According to Joe Davidson of The Sacramento Bee, Barnes has received interested from Cleveland, Dallas and [...]