The biggest news for the Orlando Magic wasn't the signing of Patricio Garino for the remainder of the season, but the whiteboard behind him, revealing an entire list of free-agency targets, trades, and potential multi-positional (hybrid) acquisitions to consider.
I believe the Orlando Magic accidentally tweeted out their trade and free agent targets on the white board pic.twitter.com/pCJh3CjJDu
— Stefan Bondy (@SBondyNYDN) April 4, 2017
Realizing their mistake, the team quickly took the tweet down, but several copies, including a spreadsheet (below) were saved, indicating a detailed look at the Magic's “wish list” for the offseason.
Here's a name compilation of the players on the board, as charted by Reddit user pickprotection.
Two things that jump to the eye here are the Dario Saric for Aaron Gordon line on the hybrid trade column, which could mean that Gordon hasn't evolved into the guy they wanted at their disposal after all. The other, is Serge Ibaka‘s name in the “free-agency spread bigs?” column — as if he wanted to leave a winning situation in Toronto for a work in progress in Orlando after having been down that road before.
Magic GM Rob Hennigan claimed the board was “not indicative of plans” and they were “simply listing options, including some of which other teams have inquired about,” according to Josh Robbins of the Orlando Sentinel.
While this does have a lot of truth in it, as most NBA teams have to have some sort of plan coming into the offseason and draft night in case of a trade or a pick swap — it's still quite enlightening to see the names of those who are possible targets to make a move this offseason.
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