Orlando makes decisions in a contract on 2 key player benches

The Orlando Magic has a lot to think about During 2025 NBA Free Agency The window. In preparation for the process, the magic decided to reject the team options at the Moritz “Moe” Vagner and Caleb Housan.

While Wagner and Housean become unlimited free agentsOrlando retains its rights of birds and potentially can be signed again, according to the ESPN’s Shams Charania. Wagner owes $ 11 million in 2025-2026, with Houstan’s option worth $ 2 million.

Vagner, older Brother Magic Star Franz Vagner, is on average in 2024-2025, an average of High 12.9 points per game in 2024-2025. However, his season was interrupted by the torn ACL after only 30 games, putting his future in Limba.

Houtan, the selected part of the second round 2022, never achieved the same impact in his three years with the team. Housan appeared in 168 total orlando games, on average only 4.1 points per exit. While he fired 40.1 percent of his career from deep in 2024-2025, Housean reached double data only eight times all year round.

And Moe Wagner and Housan came out of Michigan, but never overlapped in Ann Arbor. After three years, Vagner declared the draft NBA after three years with Wolverin, four years before Housean went one and done in 2021-2022.

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Magic Enter the Free NBA agency with internal focus

Even without Wagner and Houstan’s contracts about his books, magic do not have much flexibility in a free agency. Orlando moved to the trade Desmond Bane With Memphis Grizlies before it seems to switch your focus internally.

Magic now has nine players under contract for the season 2025-2026, not including recent draft Picks Jase Richardson and Noah Pend. Orlando’s biggest concern will expand the All-Star forward Paolo Banchero, who will enter the last year of its behavior in Pad.

After a three-year dryer for the playoffs, magic made the playoffs in consecutive seasons. However, they did not go in the first round in any year and have not yet crossed the hump. Bane Bane Bandi only only their outok. With long-term injuries of Stars Jaison Tatum, Tires Haliburton and Damian Lillard, the Eastern Conference opened in 2025-2026, something Orlando has clearly used.

Yarn Case It is NFL, college football and betting associated editorial on Kutchpoints. The coffe was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii, but now lives in Indianapolis, Indiana, after graduating from Butler University with bar sports in sports media.