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13 Things to Know About the Orlando Magic

It’s July 1.

Normally at this time we’d be preparing for the NBA’s free agency frenzy and Woj bombs. Instead we are previewing the NBA’s (hopeful) return.

The Magic are slated to take the court for their first seeding game at Disney World on July 31. They currently sit in the eighth spot in the East, and trail the depleted Brooklyn Nets by just a half game for the seventh seed. The Magic hold a 5.5 game lead over the Washington Wizards, and under the NBA’s new restart format, they’ll have to maintain better than a four-game lead to avoid a play-in game(s) for the eighth seed in mid-August.