Now that summer league is over, the free agency frenzy has died down, and the Isaiah Thomas Twitter follows and Instagram likes no longer mean anything, let’s take a look into the contract that Aaron Gordon signed with the Magic on July 1.
LeBron James had hit game-winning buzzer beaters against the Magic. He had helped the Cavs build what had been a nearly 20-game winning streak against Orlando. He has long ruled an Eastern Conference that, for more than a half decade, the Magic have been irrelevant in.
But on July 1, LeBron may have actually done the Magic a favor.