As if the crowd-less setting, afternoon tip-off time, and meaningless outcome didn’t already give this game a Summer League feel, the starting lineups certainly added to it.
The Magic - who dressed only 10 players, with each getting minutes in the first quarter - were without Aaron Gordon, Evan Fournier, Terrence Ross, Michael Carter-Williams, Mo Bamba and Jonathan Isaac. The Nets – already without Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving, Spencer Dinwiddie, DeAndre Jordan, and so on – had only nine players available after giving the day off to Jarrett Allen, Caris LeVert, Joe Harris, Jamal Crawford and Garrett Temple.