ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014 The Orlando Magic will get their first look at second-round draft pick\u00a0Izaiyah Nelson in action on Thursday when the Magic begin play at the NBA Summer League in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n
The 6-foot-10, 218-pound forward\/center signed a two-way contract with the Magic on July 1 after being selected No. 51 overall out of USF in the 2026 NBA Draft. Players on two-way contracts spend time playing for both the NBA and G League team for an organization but are limited to 50 NBA games in a season.<\/p>\n
Nelson’s teammates on Orlando’s Summer League team will include 2025 Orlando draft picks Jase Richardson and Noah Penda, who were selected by Orlando last year and played in regular-season games in 2025-26. Two other two-way players \u2014 center Colin Castleton and forward Alex Morales, who also saw action with the Orlando Magic last season \u2014 also are on the Summer League team.<\/p>\n
Orlando will play five games in Las Vegas starting Thursday at 7:30 p.m. ET against the Charlotte Hornets. They also will face the Summer League teams of the Miami Heat at 3:30 p.m. Saturday, the Portland Trail Blazers at 7 p.m. Sunday and the Philadelphia 76ers at 4 p.m., July 15. The date and time of the fifth game will be determined by the results of their other games.<\/p>\n
This year’s Magic Summer League roster includes some well-known players who have been on NBA regular-season rosters, including forward Cam Reddish, the No. 10 overall pick out of Duke in 2019; and guard Keon Johnson, the No. 21 pick in the 2021 draft who most recently played for the Brooklyn Nets.<\/p>\n
The following is the Magic’s roster for the 2026 Summer League. These rosters are subject to change:<\/p>\n
DJ Armstrong Jr., guard, 6 feet 4 and 190 pounds, Maryland\/Baltimore County
\nWill Baker, center, 6-11 and 240 pounds, LSU
\nAce Baldwin Jr., guard, 6-1 and 190 pounds, Penn State
\nColin Castleton, center, 6-11 and 250 pounds, Florida (a two-way player for the Orlando\/Osceola Magic last season)
\nRicky Council IV, guard\/forward, 6-6 and 207 pounds, Arkansas (who has played two seasons for the Philadelphia 76ers)
\nJohnell Davis, guard, 6-4 and 210 pounds, Arkansas and Florida Atlantic
\nCJ Elleby, forward, 6-6 and 200 pounds, Washington State
\nTre Holloman, guard, 6-2 and 195 pounds, North Carolina State\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0
\nKeon Johnson, guard, 6-5 and 185 pounds, Tennessee (most recently with the Brooklyn Nets)
\nAlex Morales, forward, 6-6 and 195 pounds, Wagner (two-way player for Orlando\/Osceola Magic)
\nIzaiyah Nelson, forward\/center, 6-10 and 218 pounds, USF (2026-27 two-way player for Orlando\/Osceola Magic)
\nNoah Penda, forward, 6-7 and 242 pounds, Le Mans Sarthe\/France (plays for Orlando Magic)
\nLester Qui\u00f1ones, guard, 6-5 and 208 pounds, Memphis (plays for Osceola Magic)
\nCam Reddish, forward, 6-7 and 230 pounds, Duke (played most recently for the Los Angeles Lakers)
\nMalik Reneau, forward, 6-9 and 235 pounds, Miami
\nJase Richardson, guard, 6-1 and 178 pounds, Michigan State (plays for the Orlando Magic)
\nMike Sharavjamts, forward, 195 pounds and 195 pounds, South Carolina
\nAu\u2019Diese Toney, guard, 6-6 and 205 pounds, Arkansas
\nTyTy Washington Jr., guard, 6-3 and 196 pounds, Kentucky (most recently played for the Los Angeles Clippers)
\nPhillip Wheeler, forward, 6-9 and 211 pounds, Ranney School (HS)<\/p>\n
Magic fans also will get a chance to see some of the new coaches on head coach Sean Sweeney’s staff. DJ Bakker, who will be Orlando’s assistant coach\/director of player development, will be the coach for Orlando’s Summer League team.<\/p>\n
The Magic on Monday announced the team’s assistant coaching staff. In addition to Bakker, Sweeney’s staff will include Joe Prunty, who was on Jamahl Mosley’s coaching staff last season; 10-year NBA player Greg Buckner, 10-year-plus NBA player Popeye Jones,\u00a0Tom Bialaszewski,\u00a0Riley Crean, Jon Harris, Ben Johnson, Jacqlyn Poss and Mfon Udofia. Shannon Lum has been named assistant coach\/director of coaching operations.<\/p>\n
Terms of the contracts of the assistant coaches and the two-way players, including Nelson, were not disclosed.<\/p>\n
The Magic have filled 14 of their 15 regular-season roster spots and all three of their two-way positions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014 The Orlando Magic will get their first look at second-round draft pick\u00a0Izaiyah Nelson in action…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331133,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[1242,1238,274,28,1236,115,139,141,1239,140,1240,1241,110,1237,135,278],"class_list":["post-331132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-app-professional-sports","tag-app-sports","tag-app-top-stories","tag-florida","tag-florida-sports","tag-news","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-magic","tag-orlando-news","tag-professional-basketball","tag-spectrum-sports-staff","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-tampa","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331132","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=331132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}