Duck34234

These players contracts are up for next season:

Carlos Arroyo
Pat Garrity
Keyon Dooling
Maurice Evans
James Augustine

These players have a team option on their salary

JJ Redick
Adonal Foyle
Marcin Gortat

Without these players, the Magic have 7 players under contract for 54.8 Million dollars. Which of the above players will the Magic keep, and which will they cut?

I say they pick up all the team options, and maybe Evans and/or Dooling. It all depends on whom the Magic can woo in FA. Convince Fran to come over (yeah.. good luck) and then use our MLE and Bi-Annual Exception to sign a couple of veteran players.

Jameeer/Dooling
Turkolgu/Redick
Lewis/Evans
Battie/MLE/Cook
Howard/Foyle

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Idunkonyou

IMO they will sign Evans to the VE and also give Dooling a nice extension. They won't use the MLE unless they can get a player who is truly going to improve our roster, especially when you got Battie coming back, Fran coming over from Spain and they will have a 1st round pick in June. Arroyo, Augustine, Gortat and Garrity are gone.

All in all, I think the Magic will look to add a legit starting PF in the offseason with the MLE. If no one bites, they won't use it.

2008-2009 Magic:

PG Nelson, Dooling, 1st round pick
SG Hedo, Bogans, Reddick
SF Lewis, Evans
PF MLE player, Cook, Fran
C Howard, Battie, Foyle

They could have up to 14 players under contract before the season even starts which is a good thing IMO.

MickyEyez

speaking of fran:

http://www.floridatoday.com/apps/pbc...16/1002/SPORTS



kind of an outdated quote... but i don't think it has been brought up in this board.

deanwoof

garrity is as good as gone. unless we need practice bodies and he accepts the minimum. how he ended up with a decent contract still is beyond me for a tweener with no D.

arroyo i think could be brought back. dooling is a possiblity too. evans i'm not too fond of and cook is cheap and could fit in with us.

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Ruff Draft

They're all goners.

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