Orlando Magic: Top 10 moments of the 2018-19 NBA season

2. “The Shot” by D.J. Augustin

The Magic somehow hung around in Game 1 of their first round series against the Raptors, but as the clock inched towards zero, most assumed Toronto would manage to etch out a win. Up stepped D.J. Augustin, hitting the biggest shot of the last seven-plus years for the franchise. Everything about it was perfect.

Here was Augustin, a relative journeyman in the league who had spent the season successfully proving he was more than a backup, hitting the winning shot. That he did it against a former team who had gotten rid of him made it even sweeter.

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Marc Gasol, a former Defensive Player of the Year, was the man who had switched onto him for that play. He clearly hadn’t been paying attention to the career-high (save for his rookie season with the Charlotte Bobcats, which you’d forgotten was a thing until just now) 42.1 percent Augustin shot from deep this season, and he elected to go under the screen.

This was all the air space Augustin needed to get a shot off, the swish silencing the crowd in the Scotiabank Arena.

This was a real “Where were you?” moment for a franchise that hasn’t had many, and put the rest of the league on notice that the Magic were back and not to be taken lightly again. Augustin approached Jameer Nelson levels of love in Orlando with that winning effort alone, outscoring Kyle Lowry 25-0 in the Game 1 victory.