{"id":199844,"date":"2026-03-21T00:31:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T00:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/199844\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T00:31:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T00:31:10","slug":"orlando-magic-fill-15th-and-final-standard-nba-roster-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/199844\/","title":{"rendered":"Orlando Magic fill 15th and final standard NBA roster spot"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Magic<\/a> have signed two-way forward Jamal Cain<\/a> to a standard NBA<\/a> contract, the Orlando Sentinel<\/a> learned Friday.<\/p>\n

By signing Cain to a standard contract, Orlando fills its 15th and final standard roster spot and allows Cain to be eligible to play in the postseason.<\/p>\n

The Magic, who also have center Colin Castleton<\/a> and forward Alex Morales<\/a> on two-way contracts, also open up their third two-way spot with the move, but they won\u2019t be able to fill it until the offseason. March 4 was the deadline to sign players to two-way contracts this season.<\/p>\n

Cain, who turned 27 on Friday, has played in 27 games this season with Orlando<\/a> but was running out of NBA time. Two-way players go between the NBA and the G League,<\/a> but they\u2019re limited to being active for just 50 NBA games.<\/p>\n

In addition to his 27 contests on the floor, Cain was also active 16 other times but didn\u2019t see the floor in those games. With 13 games remaining in the regular season, he would only have been able to play in seven (because he\u2019s been active 43 times already).<\/p>\n

But the Magic aren\u2019t only signing Cain to a standard contract because time was running out on his two-way deal. The 6-foot-7 forward, who brought three years of NBA experience when he signed a two-way contract with Orlando over the summer, earned the opportunity as well.<\/p>\n

Even when he wasn\u2019t filling up the boxscore in limited minutes often near the end of games, Cain offered his energy and a sense of urgency on both ends of the floor.<\/p>\n

That, combined with his daily work when he wasn\u2019t playing, allowed Magic coach Jamahl Mosley<\/a> to trust Cain in times when Orlando has dealt with injuries, such as this past week.<\/p>\n

In 18\u00bd minutes at Miami last Saturday, Cain notched 12 points with two 3-pointers and seven rebounds in a win against his former team. At Charlotte on Thursday, he scored 15 with three triples with one rebound, one assist and one steal.<\/p>\n

Jamal Cain doesn\u2019t waste opportunity with Magic: \u2018He\u2019s always working\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n

For the season, he\u2019s averaged 3.5 points and 1.1 rebounds during 8 minutes per night.<\/p>\n

In nine G League games with Osceola<\/a>, Cain has averaged 20.1 points, 2 assists, 1.4 steals and 1.2 blocks during 32.8 minutes per night.<\/p>\n

His hard work that earned him a standard contract hasn\u2019t gone unnoticed by his Magic teammates.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne thing about Jamal is that he doesn\u2019t lack confidence,\u201d Paolo Banchero said recently<\/a> about Cain. \u201cWhether (or not) he doesn\u2019t play 10 straight games, you know he\u2019s ready to go every single game. He\u2019s always working.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, he\u2019s a talented player,\u201d Banchero added. \u201cJust to have a wing like that, being able to check in and affect the game both sides of the ball, it\u2019s huge.\u201d<\/p>\n

The newly signed Cain and the Magic host the Lakers on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Jason Beede can be reached at jbeede@orlandosentinel.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Magic have signed two-way forward Jamal Cain to a standard NBA contract, the Orlando Sentinel learned Friday.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[28,114,2295,139,141,1239,140,109,76046,110],"class_list":["post-199844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-florida","tag-latest-headlines","tag-nba","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-magic","tag-orlando-news","tag-social","tag-social-sports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}