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.
I get trading Aaron Gordon (and forward Gary Clark) for a first-round draft pick, young combo guard R.J. Hampton and shooting guard Gary Harris. Gordon has been inconsistent, hasn’t really lived up to his enormous potential and actually requested a trade because, as he said the other night, there has been an enormous amount of frustration — “frustration with the losses, the injuries, the way we’ve been playing, how we’ve been playing and how many losses have accumulated over the years.