How the Orlando Magic went from a Finals contender to the NBA's worst team in just 4 years
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2020-10-25に共有
The 2009 Eastern Conference champion Magic were a bit lucky, and a bit of a surprise contender, but they clearly had something cooking. Stan Van Gundy's system surrounded Dwight with a record-setting bunch of shooters, and there was a clear path forward to keep that team intact. Instead, GM Otis Smith tinkered with his roster. When that team failed to match the prior season's success, the tinkering continued, and things only got worse. Howard got restless, the Magic overreacted with some all-out moves, and before you knew it, the kings of the East hit rock bottom.
This is the story of a team underrated for its revolutionary greatness, and how they lost their identity and their superstar just 4 years after a Finals appearance. This is the collapse that ended the first chapter of Dwight Howard's fascinating career.
Written and produced by Seth Rosenthal
Edited by Jiazhen Zhang
Motion graphics by Michael Das
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コメント (21)
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People really forget how good Dwight was, can't believe people think he isn't a Hall of Fame player 🤦
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Seth’s narration makes life worth living
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Just realized.. Dwight won a championship in Orlando but just not on the Magic 😂
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Glad Dwight still won a ring in Orlando😎
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When Hedo Turkoglu started 2 collapses on the 2 best teams he played...
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I’ll never forget when the media used to clown Dwight for acting like a kid in his early 20’s when he was a kid in his early 20’s
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Please do the 90s Bills, from 4 time superbowls in a row to the music city miracle to not reaching to the playoffs in 18yrs. Now that is a collapse
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Damn Orlando, y’all couldn’t keep Shaq, didn’t build around T-Mac, didn’t sign Duncan to pair with Hill and T-Mac, other stars y’all didn’t keep such as Victor Oladipo, and y’all split the 09 Magic team up. Brah cmon🤦🏾♂️
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New series idea: rebuild. Teams that were once a laughing stock of their league that evolved into a championship team for many years. One team is the Tampa bay lightning, they were once the worst team in the nhl and are now one of the most dominant teams in the entire league for the past nearly decade
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This was a sad watch, I first got into following the nba when I first starting playing ball in 2008, I picked the magic as my favourite team cause I liked there logo on 2k haha 😂 then was so stoked to see them go to the finals! 🙌 Then it all tumbled away so fast 😭😭
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I will never forget how terrifying those Magic teams of the late 2000s and early 2010s because of Dwight
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The “Collapse” series is the best sports-related content on YouTube by a significant margin. So many fan bases consistently experience heartbreak and rarely get happiness and almost never is that prolonged, so this series brings more rival fans together than anything else. Love it.
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Its crazy how they had 2 generational centers consecutively
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A very accurate and detailed story of my Orlando Magic fan life in two collapse videos. The local media drove our superstars away, oddly enough. The poll about how much Shaq is worth was dominated by non sports fans and the "Dwightmare" campaign was driven by sports analysts who thought we should trade for Andrew Bynum. We now have our 4th number one pick, so hopefully Bancero can turn us back to championship contenders soon if we can get some 3 point shooters for him.
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Lmao, this happened to the cavs in just ONE year.
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The greatest crime Stan van Gundy ever committed was to start Jameer Nelson, who was coming off an injury, after Rafer skip to my lou Alston had driven them all the way to the finals. Smh!
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Who’s here after watching the collapse from the Shaq and Penny years!?!?
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This feels weirdly like Giannis. Multi-year DPOY, team trying to surround him with shooters, small market, looming free agency...
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As an Orlando native and former Magic supporter, it's no wonder here in Central Florida they got the name "Orlando Tragic". We had Penny & Shaq, T-Mac and Dwight all within the first 20 years of our franchise. Just being an expansion team in '89 we started off on the right foot. If the Magic organization just opened their wallet, look at what our starting lineup could've looked like: PG: Jameer Nelson SG: Vince Carter SF: Hedo Turkoglu/Rashard Lewis PF: Rashard Lewis/Hedo Turkoglu C; Dwight Howard Dec. 18, 2010 is the day it all came crashing down. Stopped supporting them since that day when they made those trades to break up the team.
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JJ Redick’s career is soooo fascinating: he played at Duke, but he never thought he’d aspire to be a star, just a ‘shooter’. He’s been on the supporting cast of some truly great teams, these Magic, the Clippers with Chris Paul and Blake Griffen, the good part of the ‘process’ with Philly, and now he’s in a lineup with Zion. His ego didn’t let him think he’d have to carry a team, and because of that, he’s major underrated piece to a lot of these contending teams. We’ll see if New Orleans will contend for a title with him still on the roster, but I have no reason to think it won’t happen.
