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Orlando Magic: 10 stars you forgot played for the Magic

By Luke Duffy

CHICAGO, UNITED STATES: Rod Strickland (C) of the Washington Bullets falls in front of Scottie Pippen (L) and Steve Kerr (R) of the Chicago Bulls 27 April during the first half of game two of their first round playoff game at the United Center in Chicago, IL. AFP PHOTO Jeff HAYNES (Photo credit should read JEFF HAYNES/AFP via Getty Images)
CHICAGO, UNITED STATES: Rod Strickland (C) of the Washington Bullets falls in front of Scottie Pippen (L) and Steve Kerr (R) of the Chicago Bulls 27 April during the first half of game two of their first round playoff game at the United Center in Chicago, IL. AFP PHOTO Jeff HAYNES (Photo credit should read JEFF HAYNES/AFP via Getty Images) /
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8. Corey Maggette

Corey Maggette never made an All-Star team, but you could make the argument that he should have. In the 2004-05 season, he averaged 22.2 points for the LA Clippers to lead the organization in scoring. This put him 13th in the whole league, as he helped the team finish 37-45 alongside a fun group that included Elton Brand, Shaun Livingston and Chris Kaman.

But before his eight-year run with the Clippers, where he cemented himself as one of the 12 best players in franchise history, Maggette had a brief run with the Magic. He landed there on draft night in 1999 after being picked by the Seattle Supersonics, in a move that saw Horace Grant go the other way.

He managed 77 games with the Magic, starting five games, in his rookie season. His season-high in scoring that year was a 20 point effort against the Pistons, with Maggette showing early on that scoring at the professional level wasn’t going to be too much of a problem for him. It was a sign of things to come, but that would happen while in Los Angeles.

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Again it was a case of the Magic giving up on a player too soon (a recurring theme throughout the last decade as well), and if they’d kept him around as the roster improved, there is no telling how good he could have been next to a legitimate superstar.

The Magic also got nothing of note back for Maggette when they traded him after one season to the Clippers, more poor management from the front office. He didn’t quite come back to haunt the Magic, but a scorer like that who could play as a second guard of small forward would have been a nice option to have for the team as the years went by.

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