{"id":258527,"date":"2026-05-05T00:12:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T00:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/258527\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T00:12:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T00:12:20","slug":"orlando-magic-fire-head-coach-jamahl-mosley-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/258527\/","title":{"rendered":"Orlando Magic Fire Head Coach Jamahl Mosley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Orlando Magic have fired head coach Jamahl Mosley, the organization announced on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Mosley spent the past five seasons in Orlando and led the franchise to playoff appearances in each of the last three seasons. However, Orlando never made it out of the first round under Mosley. Most recently, the eighth-seeded Magic were eliminated by the first-seeded Detroit Pistons on Sunday in Game 7 of their first-round series. Orlando had held a 3-1 lead over Detroit earlier in the series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Magic had entered this past season with much higher expectations than the No. 8 seed in the Eastern Conference. In a big trade last summer, Orlando moved four first-round picks as part of a package to acquire sharpshooting guard Desmond Bane from the Memphis Grizzlies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Magic president Jeff Weltman is set to lead the team\u2019s search for the next head coach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Orlando joins the Portland Trail Blazers, New Orleans Pelicans and Chicago Bulls as NBA teams currently searching for their next head coach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Orlando Magic have fired head coach Jamahl Mosley, the organization announced on Monday. Mosley spent the past&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[112039,139,141,140],"class_list":["post-258527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-nba-news","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258527","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=258527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}