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Magic hope Skiles as coach will end playoff drought

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Scott Skiles, pictured here on January 27, 2012 in Chicago, was named head coach of the Orlando Magic and is tasked with ending the team's three-year playoff drought (AFP Photo/Jonathan Daniel)

Orlando (AFP) - Scott Skiles was named coach of the Orlando Magic on Friday, the 13-season NBA coach tasked with ending the club's three-year run of failing to reach the playoffs.

Skiles, whose first season as a coach was for Greek side Thessaloniki in 1996-97, takes the job from which Jacque Vaughn was fired last February, one taken on an interim basis by James Borrego.