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ORLANDO, Fla. – The Orlando Magic introduced Sean Sweeney as the franchise’s new head coach on Thursday, handing the longtime NBA assistant his first opportunity to lead a team from the bench.<\/p>\n
Sweeney arrives in Orlando after serving as associate head coach with the San Antonio Spurs and takes over a Magic team that has reached the playoffs in recent seasons but has been eliminated in the first round each of the last three years.<\/p>\n
Sweeney embraces new opportunity <\/p>\n
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Speaking publicly for the first time since his hiring, Sweeney said he was grateful for the opportunity and eager to begin the next chapter of his career.<\/p>\n
“I\u2019m grateful to be here and very fortunate,” Sweeney said. “Seeing everything that is going on with the Magic for the first time in Orlando, I\u2019m even more grateful.”<\/p>\n
CLICK TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX LOCAL APP<\/a><\/p>\n The coach acknowledged the expectations that come with leading a young and talented roster looking to take the next step.<\/p>\n Focus on building on existing foundation <\/p>\n Sweeney said his goal is to build upon the progress already made by the organization.<\/p>\n “There\u2019s talent here, and now it\u2019s my job to do the best I can to take them to the next step,” he said. “The foundation was laid here, and I\u2019ve got to build upon it.”<\/p>\n SIGN-UP FOR FOX 35’S BREAKING NEWS, DAILY NEWS NEWSLETTERS<\/a><\/p>\n The Magic have developed into a consistent playoff contender but have yet to advance beyond the opening round during their recent postseason appearances.<\/p>\n Hungry for postseason success <\/p>\n Sweeney said he shares the urgency felt by a fan base eager for deeper playoff runs.<\/p>\n “I\u2019m starving too,” he said. “We both want to eat.”<\/p>\n Magic President Jeff Weltman praised Sweeney’s leadership potential, describing him as a coach who could eventually rank among the NBA’s elite despite having no previous head coaching experience.<\/p>\n At 42, Sweeney becomes one of the league’s younger head coaches as he begins his first season leading Orlando.<\/p>\n The Source: This story was written based on information shared by the Orlando Magic and an interview with Sean Sweeney conducted by FOX 35’s Jonah Karp.<\/p>\n Sports<\/a>Orlando Magic<\/a>NBA<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. – The Orlando Magic introduced Sean Sweeney as the franchise’s new head coach on Thursday, handing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312543,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[5804,2295,115,139,141,140,110],"class_list":["post-312542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-magic","tag-nba","tag-news","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312542","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=312542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}