We finally got to see and hear Sean Sweeney accept the Orlando Magic head coaching job. As his coaching staff gets filled, the NBA Draft is this week. Jeff Weltman may not even be heard from on day one of the draft, as we only have the 46th pick. It’s clear some type of roster moves need to be done, but don’t tell Jeff that. Whether the Magic get involved in Giannis Antetokounmpo or not, a lot of league-wide action seems to be delayed.

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To massive relief, the Magic are not hiring Billy Donovan to be their next head coach, but instead it’ll be 41-year-old highly-praised San Antonio Spurs associate head coach and experienced NBA assistant Sean Sweeney guiding this Orlando franchise next season. The good news is Sweeney’s official introduction will be delayed because he’s got his second NBA Finals to partake in. This is an enormous hiring for the Magic, and if done correctly, Sweeney could be with our franchise for a very long time.

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The Magic are in the interviewing phase of their head coaching search. It could be as soon as this week that Orlando names their next hire. Which coaching options out there would we be acceptable with the franchise selecting?

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The Magic are in offseason mode. We found out Jeff Weltman was hiding his contract extension after all. So there will be no new President of Basketball Operations. There will be a new Orlando Head Coach as Weltman fired Jamahl Mosley around twelve hours after our Game 7 exit, and it certainly feels like Billy Donovan already has the job.

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The Magic decided to traumatize us all and resurrect 2003 by crashing out of the playoffs to Detroit after leading the series 3-1. Obviously the absence of Franz Wagner is why we’re not in the second round. The Pistons win their first playoff series since they beat us in the second round of the 2008 playoffs. Our franchise-long drought continues, we still haven’t won a playoff series since 2010. We haven’t won’t a series in the Kia Center era. And now a lot of changes need to occur with this franchise. And it’s on ownership to stop hiding.

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The Magic are having to navigate the playoffs without Franz Wagner at the moment. Game 5 in Detroit saw a Paolo Banchero-Cade Cunningham duel with each former #1 draft pick scoring 45 points a piece. Rebounds and free throws were the difference in why the Magic lost. The series and the pressure shifts back to Orlando for a Friday night Game 6. Pressure is a privilege and we have an opportunity to win this series at home.

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The Magic won a riveting roller coaster of a Game 4 and are up 3-1 in their first round series. We head to Detroit for Wednesday’s Game 5. If you don’t know about the 2003 Pistons-Magic series, read up on it. Look up the box scores on Basketball Reference. I don’t want a single Magic fan thinking about the possibility of a second round for us until we lock up a fourth victory in this current series. If I see any posting online from a Magic fan - be it social media, Reddit, RealGM - I’m downvoting you and flagging it for spam. Some of the less experienced fans don’t know better, but us longer term fans do. The terrible part about the aftermath of 2003 wasn’t just it was the beginning of the end of Doc Rivers and then Tracy McGrady in Orlando. But that we had not won a playoff series since 1996, and we’d have to wait until 2008 against the Raptors to end that drought. We have not won a playoff series since 2010. This is the longest drought in franchise history. Focus on ending that drought now in 2026 and close this thing out before you look beyond the horizon.

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Sure they’re the #1 seed. They have an MVP caliber point guard in Cade Cunningham, a defensive beast in Ausar Thompson, and likely another All-NBA guy in Jalen Duren. But we have a Bane. Desmond Bane to be exact. And we took care of our home court advantage and won Game 3. It was almost a brutal loss, but Franz Wagner and Paolo Banchero came up clutch in the fourth. Orlando leads the series 2-1 and has another home game at Kia Center on Monday.

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Despite the Magic shooting terribly, it was 46-46 at halftime in Game 2. And then the Detroit third quarter avalanche happened and it was game over. The good news it was less about what Detroit did and more what Orlando didn’t do. Effort was there, but sloppiness and missed shots didn’t help. It’s still 1-1 going back to Orlando. It was never going to be easy knocking off the #1 seed Pistons. Now the true hard work begins.

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There is no more of an appropriate way to conclude such a bizarre week for the Magic than this: Orlando beats the Pistons to claim Game 1 of this first round series. That’s about as balanced as you can get from your starting five when Paolo Banchero, Franz Wagner, Jalen Suggs, Wendell Carter Jr., and Desmond Bane each post a minimum stat line of 16 points, 4 rebounds, and 4 assists in the same contest. And on the road in Detroit no less.

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