{"id":257168,"date":"2026-05-04T01:20:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T01:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/257168\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T01:20:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T01:20:22","slug":"orlando-magics-top-3-priorities-during-2026-nba-offseason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/257168\/","title":{"rendered":"Orlando Magic’s Top 3 Priorities During 2026 NBA Offseason"},"content":{"rendered":"

With external options limited, Orlando’s most important work will be done in-house.<\/p>\n

Namely, the Magic must decide whether Anthony Black, the sixth overall pick in 2023, is definitely a long-term member of this core. And if he is, they then have to price how important it’ll be to keep him\u2014and it surely won’t be cheap.<\/p>\n

“If I’m Anthony Black’s agent, I’m going into extension negotiations this summer and I’m saying, ‘Not a penny less than Jalen Suggs. I’ve been better than him this season and I play more than him,'” Zach Lowe<\/a> said on a March episode of The Zach Lowe Show. “And that contract is going to foist some very tough decisions onto the Magic.”<\/p>\n

Suggs, for those who don’t remember, scored a five-year, $150.5 million deal. That’s a huge chunk of change, especially considering what Orlando also owes<\/a> to Bane, Paolo Banchero and Franz Wagner. The Magic are almost compensating this core like it’s a contender, despite the team appearing nowhere near that level.<\/p>\n

That’s not saying Black should be denied an extension, but it does mean giving him a big-money one might necessitate some cuts to be made elsewhere\u2014if not now, then at least at some point in the near future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With external options limited, Orlando’s most important work will be done in-house. Namely, the Magic must decide whether…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257169,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,141,140],"class_list":["post-257168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257168","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=257168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}