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Entering a second straight NBA winter with more teams looking to upgrade their rosters rather than selling off valuable veterans, no rival front office may be monitoring the sputtering Chicago Bulls’ decision-making closer than that of the Orlando Magic. It was this time two years ago league executives were circling Orlando as the trade deadline approached, and the Magic delivered: dispensing Nikola Vucevic, Aaron Gordon and Evan Fournier across the postseason map. The ramifications of that… Source link

Disney’s (DIS) Bob Iger will be inheriting quite a mess as he reassumes the CEO position at a company he led for 15 years. “Disney’s problems are more structural than they are related to who’s running the company,” Doug Cruetz, media analyst at Cowen, told Yahoo Finance Live. Cruetz listed several fundamental concerns, including a declining linear business, which has been tethered to an increasingly costly sports business at ESPN, in addition to a streaming unit bleeding money amid an… Source link

Warren Buffett knows philanthropy. He’s pledged to give away more than 99% of his wealth (during his lifetime or after his death) through the Giving Pledge, a program he created with his buddy Bill Gates to encourage the world’s billionaires to donate at least 50% of their wealth to charity. Buffett also supports a couple of charities with which he has deeply personal connections, and often does so by unconventional means. In particular: auctions. (For Buffett, seeing how these pan out… Source link

Tributes have poured in since the death of Bill Russell, whose unparalleled success as an NBA champion was rivaled only by his impact off the court. Magic Johnson would like to see his legacy formalized league-wide. The Hall of Fame Los Angeles Lakers point guard called for the NBA and commissioner Adam Silver on Tuesday to retire Russell’s jersey No. 6 across the league. He made his pitch on Twitter. The suggested step would immortalize Russell’s No. 6 alongside that of No. 42 in MLB, which… Source link

Google’s clever Magic Eraser tool debuted on the Pixel 6 and 6 Pro. It’s an editing feature that’s designed to remove people or objects you don’t want in the background of your photos. Considering that it’s dead simple to use, the results are okay, but it’s definitely not putting Adobe out of business anytime soon. But with the Pixel 6A — and coming soon to the 6 and 6 Pro — Google has added a new Magic Eraser function that I like a lot more than the standard erase tool:… Source link

Paolo Banchero‘s Summer League is done. Orlando Magic head coach Jamahl Mosley told reporters on Monday that he’s seen enough of the No. 1 pick and wants to put his minutes to use elsewhere. “I want to give these other guys an opportunity to play, to kind of be able to show what they’re capable of doing,” Mosley said, per the Associated Press. “That’s the point of Summer League, you know — give them a chance … an opportunity for these other guys to see what they’re capable of… Source link

LAS VEGAS — The third day of of the Las Vegas Summer League started out with a bang as two top-five draft picks squared off. It was the Paolo Banchero (No. 1 pick) and Keegan Murray (No. 4 pick) show, and it lived up to every expectation and then some. The game needed sudden-death double overtime and Banchero’s Orlando Magic secured the win, 94-92, over the Sacramento Kings in the main gym at the Thomas & Mack Center. The Magic had a comfortable 18-point lead with 5:26 left in the game…. Source link

Free agent center Mo Bamba has reached an agreement with the Orlando Magic on a two-year, $21 million deal, his agents Mark Bartelstein and Greer Love of Priority Sports told Yahoo Sports. The Magic did not extend a qualifying offer to Bamba, but they were able to negotiate a new deal. Multiple teams reportedly had interest in Bamba, the sixth overall pick in the 2018 NBA draft, who had the best season of his career last year. He started 69 games for the Magic, averaging 10.6 points, 8.1… Source link

NEW YORK — Paolo Banchero, Chet Holmgren and Jabari Smith were the big winners Thursday night, going Nos. 1-3 in the 2022 NBA draft. The Orlando Magic had the No. 1 pick for the first time since 2004 and selected Duke’s Banchero, making him the second No. 1 pick from Duke in the past four years (Zion Williamson went No. 1 in 2019). Oklahoma City remained patient with its rebuild, adding the most polarizing player in the draft, 7-foot-1, 195-pound center Chet Holmgren, and Jabari Smith is… Source link

NEW YORK — The Orlando Magic selected Duke forward Paolo Banchero with the first pick in the 2022 NBA draft on Thursday night. After weeks of Auburn’s Jabari Smith being projected as the consensus top pick, the Magic shocked everyone by selecting Banchero. Banchero is the second No. 1 pick in the last four years for the Blue Devils (Zion Williamson went No. 1 to the New Orleans Pelicans in 2019), and the fifth top overall pick in program history. Banchero, a 6-foot-10, 250-pound forward,… Source link