ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014\u00a0Longtime Orlando Magic executive Alex Martins has been inducted into the team\u2019s Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n
What You Need To Know<\/p>\n
Magic Vice Chair and former CEO Alex Martins has been inducted into the team’s Hall of Fame
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Martins becomes the 14th inductee
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Martins worked with Orlando leaders to see the city’s latest arena built and saw the Magic go to the NBA Finals in 1995 and 2009<\/p>\n
Martins, the current vice chair and a former chief executive officer of the Magic, is part of the group that helped get the NBA team started in Central Florida.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s something that I never dreamed would be a possibility,” Martins said. “I just think about all the incredible people that I’ve had the opportunity to work alongside. No one person does any of this; we all do it together. I’m incredibly grateful for them.\u201d<\/p>\n
Martins spent 14 years as the team\u2019s CEO, becoming the organization’s vice chairman in 2025. He joined the organization in 1989 and spent a decade in Orlando in\u00a0various senior-level management positions before moving on to some other professional sports franchises. In 2005, he returned, and over 20 years later, he became a member of the Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n
\u201cI like to be remembered as a leader of our employees, a leader in our community,” Martins said. “Leadership is important to me. As I look to the next chapter of my career, my desire is to help leaders grow for the future.\u201d<\/p>\n
During Martins\u2019 tenure, he led the Magic’s effort to work with Orlando officials to see the Amway Center, now the Kia Center, become a reality and saw the Magic make it to the NBA Finals in 1995 and 2009.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe gave everything that we had to make this organization an integral part of the city. I don’t need to remember me,\u201d Martins said. \u201cI just want to remember those incredible moments that, hopefully, we helped build for them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014\u00a0Longtime Orlando Magic executive Alex Martins has been inducted into the team\u2019s Hall of Fame. What…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204817,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[767,1242,1238,274,770,1236,115,768,139,141,1239,140,1240,110,1237,1746,278,835],"class_list":["post-204816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-app-community","tag-app-professional-sports","tag-app-sports","tag-app-top-stories","tag-community-news","tag-florida-sports","tag-news","tag-orange-county-fl","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-magic","tag-orlando-news","tag-professional-basketball","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-thomas-cook","tag-top-stories","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204816","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=204816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}