Orlando Magic: 4 role players most likely to step up next year

The Orlando Magic are going to need role players to improve their games if they want to be a better team next season. Here are four players most likely to do so.

The Orlando Magic are heading into the 2018-19 season with renewed optimism about how good they can be in the near future. Armed with three lottery picks in Aaron Gordon, Jonathan Isaac and Mohamed Bamba, they have a young core (all under the age of 23) to can build around.

In order for Orlando to take the next necessary step, however, role players are going to have to improve as well. There’s a reason the Magic have won less than 30 games in five of the last six seasons, and that is not just down to the young players on their team.

An incompetent former general manager like Rob Hennigan did not help things, but you would be hard-pressed to name three players during this prolonged rebuild who have been a real help to the supposed “young stars” each night.

The former front office may have brought in many of these players, or indeed drafted them, but when presented with the opportunity of becoming a key player on a rebuilding team, they failed to take it.

That is why it’s so important for the rest of the players on the Magic’s roster who are not earmarked as a part of the core to improve their games this coming season. Here are four role players most likely to become more important for Orlando.