The Magic running it back with the same exact core
After the 2018-19 season, the Magic’s main priority was to resign their best player, Nikola Vučević.
Upon re-signing Terrence Ross to a $54 million, four-year contract, they then inked Vučević to a four-year deal worth $100 million and brought back Al-Farouq Aminu and Michael Carter-Williams (two players that don’t exactly address their shooting and scoring concerns).
Now, this is not to say that All-Star caliber player, Vučević, was overpaid or shouldn’t have been brought back, but the summer before, the Magic also chose to re-sign Aaron Gordon to a four year, $84 million deal as well.
Though Gordon is also a good player, their cap situation strongly suggests that this is practically going to be their team going forward for the next three or four years.
But one can only beg the question: after all of those post-Dwight years of tanking, Jonathan Issac and Aaron Gordon (not to mention Oladipo going on to succeed in Indiana) are the best players this organization has managed to draft? A team that can barely squeak into the playoffs and repeatedly get eliminated in the first round?
Magic fans have to be wondering what the exact plan and the direction of this team really is.