{"id":774082,"date":"2026-07-01T21:15:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T21:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/774082\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T21:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T21:15:09","slug":"magics-wendell-carter-increased-competition-at-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/774082\/","title":{"rendered":"Magic&#8217;s Wendell Carter: Increased competition at center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n        This page may contain affiliate links. If you click and sign up, make a deposit, or place a wager, we may earn a commission at no additional cost to you.\n    <\/p>\n<p>Carter&#8217;s outlook becomes more uncertain following Orlando&#8217;s acquisition of Nikola Vucevic.<\/p>\n<p>While Carter has served as the <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nba\/teams\/ORL\/orlando-magic\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Magic<\/a>&#8216;s starting center in recent seasons, Vucevic&#8217;s return could cut into his playing time and potentially shift him into a reduced role depending on how Orlando structures its frontcourt rotation. Carter is likely to remain with the first unit, but his fantasy value may take a hit if the two centers split minutes consistently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This page may contain affiliate links. If you click and sign up, make a deposit, or place a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":774083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,95338,459,15716,82,121140],"class_list":["post-774082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fantasy-basketball","tag-nba","tag-orlando-magic","tag-sports","tag-wendell-carter-jr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=774082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/774083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}