ORLANDO – While the Orlando Magic’s stirring 22-9 finish to last season vaulted them into the playoffs and breathed life and optimism into a franchise down on its luck in the several seasons prior, it also spawned a host of burning questions facing the squad as it heads into the 2019-20 season.
The most pressing question of all, of course, is this one: Can a Magic team that won at a .709 percent clip over the final 31 games of last spring do it over the course of the NBA’s marathon-like, 82-game season?
Can a Magic team returning 13 players from last season’s roster summon the same sort of urgency that it played with while in must-win mode over the final six weeks of last season?