{"id":267446,"date":"2026-05-12T02:06:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T02:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/267446\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T02:06:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T02:06:21","slug":"billy-donovans-history-with-the-orlando-magic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/267446\/","title":{"rendered":"Billy Donovan&#8217;s history with the Orlando Magic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Billy Donovan&#8217;s history with the Orlando Magic over the years has been quite the mess.<\/p>\n<p class=\"caas-show-transcript\">View more<\/p>\n<p>Video Transcript<\/p>\n<p>Would you rehire a head coach who once quit on your team after just four days on the job?<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s what the Magic might do with Billy Donovan.<\/p>\n<p>In 2007, Billy Donovan was the top college basketball coach in the nation, having just won back-to-back titles in Florida.<\/p>\n<p>So the Orlando Magic lured him to the NBA with a five-year, $27.5 million contract.<\/p>\n<p>Donovan had a big introductory press conference with the Magic, and the message boards were abuzz with hope and optimism for their new coach.<\/p>\n<p>But just days after that introductory press conference, Donovan got cold feet and decided he was conflicted and did not want to coach in the NBA.<\/p>\n<p>The Magic eventually agreed to release him from his contract on the condition that he not coach in the NBA for five years.<\/p>\n<p>Donovan returned to Florida and the Magic hired Stan Van Gundy, who just two years later led them to the NBA finals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"caas-hide-transcript\">Close<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Billy Donovan&#8217;s history with the Orlando Magic over the years has been quite the mess. View more Video&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267447,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[16582,139,141,1239,140],"class_list":["post-267446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-billy-donovan","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-magic","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267446","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=267446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}