May 4 (UPI) — The Orlando Magic fired coach Jamahl Mosley after their first-round playoff exit, they announced Monday.<\/p>\n
Mosley led the Magic to a 189-221 record over the last five seasons, including a 45-37 campaign in 2025-26. His tenure ended with the eighth-seeded Magic blowing a 3-1 series lead to the top-seeded Detroit Pistons<\/a>, ending with a Game 7 loss Sunday in Detroit.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n “We’re grateful to Jamahl for all he’s done for the Orlando Magic,” Magic president of basketball operations Jeff Weltman said in a news release. “We appreciate his leadership and the positive contributions he made as head coach. While this was a difficult decision, we feel it’s time for a new voice and fresh perspective.”<\/p>\n The Magic hired Mosley after they parted ways with former coach Steve Clifford in 2021. Mosley, who previously served as an assistant for the Dallas Mavericks<\/a>, Cleveland Cavaliers<\/a> and Denver Nuggets<\/a>, led the Magic to a 22-60 mark in his first season.<\/p>\n The Magic, who selected Paolo Banchero<\/a> with the No. 1 overall pick in the 2022 NBA Draft, was 34-48 in 2022-23. They improved again in 2023, when they were 47-35. The Magic were 41-41 last season. They lost in the first round during each of their three postseason runs under Mosley.<\/p>\n The Magic averaged the fewest points and assists per game of any playoff team.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n The Pistons will host the No. 4 Cleveland Cavaliers in Game 1 of an Eastern Conference semifinals series at 7 p.m. EDT Tuesday in Detroit. The winner of the best-of-seven game series will meet the No. 3 New York Knicks<\/a> or No. 7 Philadelphia 76ers<\/a> in the Eastern Conference finals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"May 4 (UPI) — The Orlando Magic fired coach Jamahl Mosley after their first-round playoff exit, they announced…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257920,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[15356,5828,5839,5834,5801,15355,139,141,1239,140,5799,5847,5797],"class_list":["post-257919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-cleveland-cavaliers","tag-dallas-mavericks","tag-denver-nuggets","tag-detroit-pistons","tag-jamahl-mosley","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-magic","tag-orlando-news","tag-paolo-banchero","tag-philadelphia-76ers","tag-the-magic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257919","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=257919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}