Orlando Sentinel · Mar 26, 2021
Why, oh why, did the Orlando Magic have to trade Vooch? | Commentary
Magic All-Star center Nikola Vucevic loved being in Orlando, but was traded on Thursday. (Ricardo Ramirez Buxeda/Orlando Sentinel)Why did the Orlando Magic have to trade their only All-Star — beloved, loyal, true-blue, Magic through-and-through center Nikola Vucevic?
I get trading Evan Fournier to the Celtics for a couple of second-round picks and a Traded Player Exception (yippee!) worth $17 million. Fournier was on the last year of his contract and the Magic had no plans to re-sign him.