31 Oct
First Orlando, then New Jersey, now Toronto.
What’s next? Chapel Hill?
After tonight, Vince Carter will have hit three stops on what the Orlando Sentinel is calling the “Vinsanity Reunion Tour,” but it is unknown if Carter will play after suffering an ankle injury in the second quarter of Friday night’s win over the Nets.
The other major [...]
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30 Oct
The Orlando Magic overcame terrible 3-point shooting, poor free throw shooting, sloppy play and an injury to Guard Vince Carter to defeat the New Jersey Nets 95-85 on Friday night.
In Head Coach Stan Van Gundy’s post-game press conference, he said he liked this game better than Orlando’s 120-106 blowout win over Philadelphia on Wednesday because [...]
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30 Oct
Vince Carter’s homecoming was going exactly as planned. Carter was having an excellent game until he suffered an ankle injury with about 3 minutes remaining in the second quarter when he stepped on the foot of his former teammate, Nets Guard Devin Harris.
His injury is being classified as a sprain and the Magic called his [...]
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30 Oct
Starters
Orlando
C Dwight HowardF Ryan AndersonF Mickael PietrusG Vince CarterG Jameer Nelson
New Jersey
C Brook LopezF Yi JianlianF Chris Douglas-RobertsG Courtney LeeG Devin Harris
You can read my Q & A with Nets Are Scorching here. Well click here to see his questions and my answers about both both the Magic and the Nets.
End of 1st quarter: Magic [...]
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30 Oct
The Orlando Magic (1-0) will head to the Meadowlands to battle the New Jersey Nets (0-1) at the Izod Center Friday night.
The game will be televised on Sun Sports at 8:00 PM EST. As always, if you can’t see the game, you can hear it locally on WDBO 580 AM and in Spanish on WONQ [...]
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30 Oct
Former Magic Guard Courtney Lee still loves Orlando even though he was “devastated” when he first heard about the deal that sent him to New Jersey.
Lee felt floored when he learned that he, Rafer Alston and Tony Battie had been traded to the New Jersey Nets for eight-time all-star Vince Carter and Ryan Anderson.
“It was [...]
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29 Oct
Check out my recap of Orlando’s 120-106 win over the 76ers here.
Mike Bianchi says that this season is about unfinished business for the Magic.
O’er the land of the free.
And the home of the future NBA champions.
If little Gina Marie Incandela had her way, that’s probably how she would have ended her incredible rendition of the national [...]
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28 Oct
With the Phillies winning game 1 of the World Series against the Yankees, it was a great night for the city of Philadelphia.
Well, most of the city.
It wasn’t much of a night for the 76ers.
The Orlando Magic celebrated the hanging of their Eastern Conference Championship banner by routing the Sixers 120-106.
The Magic came out running, [...]
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