Orlando Magic: Their All-decade least liked starting five
By Luke Duffy
The Orlando Magic did not have much to cheer about from the years 2010-2019, but who makes up their least liked starting five?
The start of a new decade has brought with it renewed hope that the Orlando Magic can continue to climb up the Eastern Conference standings. This after a previous 10-year stretch that brought with it a lot of misery. A terrible period that saw all manner of head coaches come and go, and that failed to yield one sure-fire superstar from their repeated trips to the lottery.
There were the veterans in it for the paycheck and the puzzling free agent acquisitions that looked like a bad fit on paper, and went to be just that on the court too. But who exactly where the most disliked players at each position in what was a stretch in which the Magic began as contenders, before falling all the way to the bottom of the pile and remaining there for seven years?
Not the worst players, although that would be a hard list to compile as well, but rather the ones whose time in Orlando either didn’t go or end well. Some are pretty obvious without thinking too hard about it. Then again, with the organization so bad for so long, deciding who was unfortunate enough to end up on this list wasn’t easy either.
Going with a traditional five-man lineup also meant that some players managed to escape purely because another guy who played the same position had a worse run or ending with the Magic. Think you can guess the five players who are about to be mentioned in the slides ahead? Read on to find out.