Kim Klement/USA TODAY Jacque Vaughn said he has only one Christmas wish this Holiday season. He wants a healthy team starting Dec. 26. That should not be too much to ask, right? Arron Afflalo appears on track to play tonight against the Kings after missing Wednesday's game and Thursday's practice with an illness. But the […]

Kim Klement/USA TODAY The Magic have asked Nikola Vucevic to do a lot more this year, his third in the NBA and his second in Orlando. Vucevic saw his impact and role within an offense increase. His usage rate has stayed steady around 20 percent, eclipsing 20 percent for the first time this year. Vucevic […]

The Magic received some pretty sudden news before tipoff Wednesday when Jacque Vaughn said Arron Afflalo was sent home with an undisclosed illness. Vaughn said that with the team being home for so long, he did not want to get other players sick. Nothing had changed when Thursday morning rolled along. Vaughn said Afflalo stayed […]

It was a morose Magic locker room following an 86-82 loss to the Utah Jazz to kick off a six-game homestand which they all pointed to as one that could end up defining their season and putting it in a direction toward the Playoffs or toward the irrelevancy everyone had the franchise pegged for anyway. […]

Kim Klement/USA TODAY In the month of December so far the Magic have spent a grand total of four days at home, playing just one home game. In that time, Orlando has traveled approximately 7,630 (driving) miles in the course of 16 days. It has been a long and winding slog throughout the nation these […]

Douglas Jones/USA TODAY Before Tobias Harris' ankle injury in training camp and early on in the season. Before Tobias Harris bumped knees in Summer League pracitce, shortening his offseason preparations and chance to show off the improvements he planned to make with his likely move to small forward as opposed to playing power forward like […]

The Magic are set to begin construction on what I have called Amway Center Phase 2 next summer. When will the entertainment complex that will be there rise up? Magic COO Alex Martins hopes it will be in time to be part of the team's 2017 or 2018 All-Star bid, he told attendees at an […]

Rob Grabowski/USA TODAY Winning can be ugly. That is something the Magic need to learn with this young team and inexperience winning and closing games. The opportunities to win come rarely and sometimes you need a bit of luck. You certainly need defense. The Magic learned that lesson pretty heavily in the fourth quarter against […]

Raj Mehta/USA TODAY The Magic's biggest weakness from last year was its defense. Glen Davis went down and a top-10 defense in the league through 25 games turned into one of its worst, ending up giving up 109.1 points per 100 possessions, good for 25th in the league. Orlando knows that it will have to […]

Kim Klement/USA TODAY Tobias Harris played in just his second game of the year Friday night against the Cavaliers. Harris played in about 15 minutes and scored 10 points on 3-for-8 shooting. He added five rebounds and a 3-pointer, posting a -4 while he was in the game.  "It was real disappointing [to come back […]