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Orlando Magic forward Paolo Banchero has won the 2022-23 NBA Rookie of the Year award. The No. 1 overall pick from last year’s draft received 494 total points, 98 first-place votes, one second-place vote, and one third-place vote. Banchero, 20, posted 40 games with at least 20 points. “He looked at me and he asked […]
Paolo Banchero of the Orlando Magic was short by one first-place vote on the confirmed ballots list to win unanimous NBA Rookie of the Year, and the lone voter to ruin it was Salt Lake Tribune writer Andy Larsen. “Basically… the advanced stats all favor [Walker] Kessler, and I’ve always been an analytically-oriented voter,” Larsen […]
Markelle Fultz of the Orlando Magic has six career games with at least 25 points, four of which were recorded last month. In Sunday night’s 128-102 win over the Detroit Pistons, the 6-foot-3 guard ended his outing with 11 points, two boards, six assists, one steal, and two blocks in 25 minutes of action. Plus, […]
Jalen Suggs (concussion) of the Orlando Magic has been downgraded to out for Thursday night’s home game against the New York Knicks. This will be the fourth straight contest and 29th game the second-year guard has missed so far this season. Through 45 appearances this season, Jalen Suggs is averaging 9.7 points, 3.0 rebounds, 3.2 […]
Paolo Banchero logged his 30th 20-point game of the season, the most by an Orlando Magic rookie since Shaquille O’Neal, in Monday night’s 101-93 win over the New Orleans Pelicans. The No. 1 overall pick from last year’s draft ended his performance with 29 points, eight rebounds, four assists, and one steal in 35 minutes […]
The Orlando Magic have signed former Indiana Pacers center Goga Bitadze. The 6-foot-11 big man was waived by Indiana last Thursday. His $4,765,339 team option for this season was exercised in October 2021. This was part of the four-year, $13.64 million rookie scale contract Bitadze signed with the Pacers four years ago. However, his current […]
NBA breakout star Bol Bol is averaging career-high numbers this season with the Orlando Magic, and the forward also feels he could have trained harder in his first three seasons with the Denver Nuggets. “Yeah, I can say there was a little bit, I feel I could’ve worked a lot harder,” Bol said on his […]
Orlando Magic forward Bol Bol (quarantine) and center Moritz Wagner (suspension) are out for Thursday night’s home game versus the Memphis Grizzlies. Jonathan Isaac (knee) and Chuma Okeke (knee) remain out indefinitely. Admiral Schofield, Franz Wagner, and Kevon Harris are listed as probable. All three players have already served their suspensions from an on-court altercation […]
After the Los Angeles Lakers won 129-110 over the Orlando Magic on Tuesday night, Paolo Banchero was asked what LeBron James has meant to him throughout the course of his life. “Anybody that knows me knows that’s been my favorite player since I was a young kid,” said the rookie forward. “A guy who I’ve […]
The Orlando Magic have no intention of trading away fifth-year center Mo Bamba, but if an NBA team is interested in dealing for the seven-foot big man, a contender will have to surrender at least a first-round draft pick. “League executives expect Orlando to hold out for a protected first-round selection or a late first-round […]
