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Subs Anthony, Bol key Magic's win over West-leading Nuggets
"Orlando's bench let a one 15 one O four win over the nuggets. The magic subs outscored the nuggets back ups 56 ten with coal Anthony a bowl bowl each scoring 17 points off the bench. I think most importantly we just come in and try to get stops and bring energy and that's just why we've been excelling so good. When del Carter junior had a team high 19 points to lead 7 magic scores in double figures, Aaron Gordon and Nikola Jokić combined to score all 29 of Denver's third quarter points. Gordon had a season high 37 points and 14 rebounds. While jokic added 29 points, 11 boards and 6 assists. I'm Dave ferry.
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Antetokounmpo helps Bucks beat short-handed Nuggets 107-99
"The buck strolled through a 107 99 win over the nuggets who were missing many of their stars, including MVP Nikola Jokić and Jamal Murray. Had 33 to lead the way Ana kupo says he doesn't concern himself with the opponent's roster. Might soon be successful and try to win that game that night. So he doesn't really change who's in front of me. The nuggets tried to be physical with honor to Google. He shot 22 free throws of the second half. The bucks also won despite giving 23 turnovers, Aaron Gordon had 26 points for the nuggets. Check Freeman, Milwaukee.
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Jokic's latest triple-double leads Nuggets past Grizzlies
"The nuggets raced out to a big lead and made it stand up at a one O 5 91 victory over Memphis. Aaron Gordon was team high with 24 points and said, on court communication led to Denver holding the explosive grizzlies to just 91 points. That's really what it came down to. We were just communicating with each other and, you know, that is that's contagious. It's contagious energy. And it gives life to our team. It gives life to our defense and we're talking to each other and helping each other get in the right spots. The nuggets led 35, 14 after one quarter en route to their 5th win in 6 games. They and Memphis are tied to top of the Western Conference at 19 and 11. Bruce Morton, Denver
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Gordon's 27, Jokic's triple-double lead Nuggets past Thunder
"Aaron Gordon and Nikola Jokić with the stars in the nuggets one 22 one ten win over the thunder Gordon provided 23 of his team high 27 points in the first half as Denver ended Oklahoma City's four game winning streak Jokic posted his third triple double of the season and 79th of his career finishing with 15 points 13 rebounds and 13 assists Jamal Murray's 24 points helped the nuggets bounce back from Sunday's loss to the Lakers The thunder erased a 14 point halftime lead and led 93 91 before falling Shea gilges Alexander led all scorers with 37 points I'm Dave fairy
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Paul's back, Suns clinch top seed with 140-130 win in Denver
"The sons of course the first overall seed in the NBA playoffs Phoenix welcome back Chris Paul before earning a one forty one thirty one over the nuggets special man seventeen years for me on the second time I on ten one sixty games and now you know we talk about celebrate celebrate things so this is a huge thing for us all of us Paul furnish fifteen of his seventeen points after halftime and finished with thirteen assists in the sun seventh straight victory it was his first game since missing five weeks with a broken thumb Devin Booker had a season high forty nine points for the sons who went eleven and four without Paul the nuggets got twenty points from the Cali okay H. twenty three from rookie bone Thailand at twenty one from Aaron Gordon I'm Dave Ferrie
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Jazz complete season sweep over Denver, 108-104
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Nikola Jokic, Nuggets rout defending champ Bucks 136-100
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Clippers rally from 25 down in 2nd half, stun Nuggets 87-85
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Jokic gets 24, Nuggets top Heat 120-111 to snap 6-game slide
"But but I I did did speak speak to to him him one one twenty twenty one one eleven eleven to to end end a a six six game game skid skid the the game game was was billed billed as as a a rematch rematch since since the the November November eighth eighth clash clash in in Denver Denver between between Nicola Nicola you'll you'll catch catch and and Miami's Miami's Markieff Markieff Morris Morris where where they they traded traded hard hard files files instead instead you'll you'll catch catch led led the the nuggets nuggets with with twenty twenty four four points points and and fifteen fifteen rebounds rebounds good good Andrea Andrea specialist specialist after after six six losses losses Aaron Aaron Gordon Gordon added added twenty twenty points points for for the the nuggets nuggets bam bam Adebayo Adebayo led led the the heat heat with with twenty twenty four four point point fifteen fifteen scored scored in in the the third third quarter quarter alone alone any any added added thirteen thirteen boards boards Miami's Miami's next next to to send send Denver's Denver's bones bones island island added added nineteen nineteen each each of of their their respective respective benches benches the the win win ended ended the the nuggets nuggets longest longest losing losing streak streak in in nearly nearly six six years years I'm I'm more more in in Ruston Ruston
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Morant scored 26, Jones 17 to lead Grizzlies past Nuggets
"John Marantz twenty six points eight assists and seven rebounds carried the Grizzlies to a one oh six ninety seven win over the nuggets we have scored a ball usually with you know the players we have honestly I was gonna lock in defensively and you know how Thomas's work come out you know with a bang on the defensive end and that if you allow Austin's Tyus Jones chipped in seventeen points as Memphis beat Denver for the first time in their last four meetings Xavier Tillman had twelve points no collie Oakridge led the nuggets with twenty three point seven rebounds and seven assists while Aaron Gordon added fifteen points and ten rebounds Denver's major problem was from outside the arc where it made just twenty four percent of its thirty eight attempts I'm Dave Ferrie
Open Floor: SI's NBA Show
"aaron gordon" Discussed on Open Floor: SI's NBA Show
"What team is going to be able to put the salaries together of players who aren't valuable trade for someone like john wall. I that is a i. Shout out to him and his representation for for trying to find a barner. But they're gonna have to call in some insane famous. How how would you feel about the. How would you feel about the sixers trading for him. they they need. They need lena ball handler. They need to point guard. You definitely shoot. Which is good so i don't think while the sixers is as absurd as some people think it is but that can't be who they get for. Ben simmons that's going to be like three team trade or something like that because the trade can't be john wall for ben simmons s. We ben simmons for john wall a ton of assets or there's a third team involved but i mean if you're really trying to that can't be what they get into simmons dark dark reality where what else are they gonna get it this point right like it's pretty tough ron. And it seems like the sixers one arcade going to training camp about with having him on the demon. I wonder how long that's gonna last. And i mean it's an option. It's not a good one but it's an option. I mean i just like you get a third team involved a wide the rockets i don't know man battle us your day. You look saw like simmons for wall on. You're like wow that's bleak music. I saw someone tweeted out. Like simmons for wall. And i'm like man. No i was already really pushing the limits of simmons simmons for harrison barnes. But man simmons for wall would be particularly particularly upsetting Dan i don't know if you had to guess do you think they're able to move him this season. I know it's kinda crazy because the contracts are getting moved. Maybe like we never expected before. But i don't even know even know who would take. That's feels like something to kings will do. That's a good. That's a good culture. I think they do because you're right like some team is going to.
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"aaron gordon" Discussed on Open Floor: SI's NBA Show
"Alright palace. So you and i actually. I met a couple years ago. It clippers immediate day. And as you'd like to remind me. I was walking around with my backpack on the whole time and it was really embarrassing. I was new to los angeles. I was really nervous. The backpackers offered me a sense of security. And i wanted to have this conversation with you. Because it's really funny to think about just two short years ago when i first got to los angeles. A big reason why i was there was this. Huge burgeoning lakers clippers rivalry right. Everything was about basketball center is now in. La lebron in the same city. You know the path to the title. These teams are on a collision. Course it's going to be incredible and both teams are playing down the rivalry. Even though the clippers are putting up all these billboards at our subliminal shots at the lakers et cetera. In two years. I we got a couple of solid christmas day games. They don't meet in the playoffs in your one. You're to the clippers. Tried to avoid the lakers in the playoffs. Only for the lakers to go out and round one and now it seems like no one. Even cares about the lakers clippers rivalry anymore. I i'm just curious. What you make of this. Do you think anyone has their eye on these two teams as rivals anymore because two years ago and slightly head into the last season. It was a very big deal. Now it's just. I don't think anyone considers them in the same league kind ya i think. Only patrick beverley does. I think we've done a different team. But who needs the lakers clippers No it's so greasy. How quickly the luster has gone up that entire situation. I mean i remember right. Likes those media. Days was such a big deal because it was all the questions to the lakers. About the clippers. Inauguration cope at the lakers and it was just is concentrating back in the back and forth of the two teams and obviously when they played the games..
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"aaron gordon" Discussed on Open Floor: SI's NBA Show
"Probably not can he be the third guy on a team absolutely. Why wouldn't you sign up for that. And they're going to extract more value from him than most other teams leave because what they're asking him to do. And that's what makes the contract worth now. I saw the look on your face. Paulo when i said the nuggets were title contender. I i've seen that look on your face before many times in my life. And when i say something crazy and you're not a fan of it i wanna ask you your honest thoughts on the jamal. Murray michael puerto junior. Aaron gordon nicoli ioka core I've seen some nuggets. Reporters say that they expect 'em pj to get extended at some point or e seems to be the team's future plans. What do you think of that court floor in denver. Do you think they're title contender. I think the reality is that the nuggets have done everything right like they literally have done the team building. They've they've got the second round. See yokich tournaments an emmy. They have done nothing on almost nothing wrong. I would say and so. It's hard to criticize them. But when you look at the reality of the landscape and what teams look like. I just don't see how this team is more than perhaps a conference finals. It's hard for me to see that because obviously we don't know what your mom. Mary's can look like that's a big question. Mark coming back from injury. But even just in general i just there's just something missing and i'm not you know this is not to denigrate yoga quite on you on serious. I'm serious. He i know he can be in the room player on a title. I believe that. But it's just more about you. Know kind of putting them up against each other teams like. Are you really going to sit here and homey that the nuggets could be you know the nets for example or even the box. You know i. I don't know i don't know i don't know that you answer to that question and i feel like if things break right they can totally at titled they need things break right whereas other teams might not might be able to you know charter on pal. That's interesting i will say. I liked the nuggets in the west. Especially if murray is healthy. Now that's a big and that's a little bit unfair. But i don't look at any team in the west right now. As a runaway favourite the lakers are an absolute wildcard. The suns are team. That had a lot of things break right for them to the playoffs last year. The clippers are obviously dealing with the choir injury and guess what nuggets already beaten the clippers in a playoff series When their team was fully healthy. So i look at it as a team that can absolutely make run to the finals when healthy beyond that. They've the youngest core of any title contender of which i think they have the bigger the biggest window right. I mean the lakers lebron's obviously on the wrong side of thirty five. At this point the clippers audrey dealing with health issues with kawai. I just think the nuggets have a wide open window. And i know that those windows always end up being way shorter than we assume crazy. Things happen in this league movements knots. But i really like the I do think they can beat the bucks playoff series. I i really liked the bucks but there were times when they were really underwhelming during the Year before the vinyls. I the nets are obviously the the big juggernaut looming. But there's outside of them. There's no team that..
Open Floor: SI's NBA Show
"aaron gordon" Discussed on Open Floor: SI's NBA Show
"The millers tone about this. He seems the hell not a level of harshness. That i could get a good work up to but i will say i think that's just life in the nba now for especially for a team mcnuggets. You know they probably are not gonna get somebody like gordon free agency. It's gonna take a lot for them to entice somebody to sign with them so the fact that they have this guy in house. They have to do everything to keep them. And i'm sure in gordon's agents know that leverage this kind of over him so i think it's just the reality i think for denver. Even it's overpay if you wanna call that in made sense because they have no other avenue for getting better unless they decided trades memorial or or michael which doesn't seem like they were wanna do yeah. I couldn't agree with you pal. And i think a lot of good points there about this being the reality of the nba. As i tweeted. I loved the signing for denver. I think it's an a. I think it's a home run. I think it's a no brainer. And that's because they have a team that can contend for a championship. They have an mvp level player. Frankly the mvp nicole ioka jr a jamal marina sending star an intriguing young talent michael porter jr. a lot of good and interesting role players. Michael green's been good for them. They have jeff green monti morris probably one of the better backup point guards in the league and now of course aaron gordon. You can't afford to not keep this core together. We've seen teams let guys walk for money and then and then get killed for. What did we say. The bucks malcolm brogden go you know. Would you rather have had him. And obviously they ended up winning. They were able to swing that drew holiday trade but it came at a steep price of the sons back in the day when they let joe johnson walk There are so many examples of teams getting close to building a title contender and then getting cheap at the last second letting someone walk out the door and we kill them for that. How can we criticize the nuggets for quote unquote overpaying. Someone like erin burden. Who i might add..
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"aaron gordon" Discussed on Open Floor: SI's NBA Show
"Of open floor filling in for your host michael pod pena this week on sl staff. Friday rohatyn knocker and joining me on the show today is the nba media. Certified loverboy He's too sexy for the fame. He's a staff writer at the ringer. It's my good buddy palo getty palo. How's it going buddy was up ron. Thanks for the intro. That was that was a little bit too much. But i'll take it. I think all facts. I think all facts about that now. That fox news is shaking at two immigrants hosting basketball. Podcast truly a momentous situation here. We're not going. Do you have any friends cousins in el salvador Who have any stories that we should be aware of before we get going none that i can tell them the bottle. Okay okay cool palo. We've a lot to get to today on a jam packed season episode here but before we get started a god. Thank the open floor globe for all their emails. That have really kept us going on this summer. Obviously the season starting soon. We don't want you guys to stop sending in those emails emails. Have been the lifeblood of this podcast. Make sure you get those emails in to open floor. Globe at g mail dot com a paulo. I know you love sending emails. We'd love to see you when the inbox sometime But whether you're an nba writer or not. Please keep those emails coming in now. Palo i know your loyalists nerve the podcast but but just in case. I'm going to give everyone a refresher last week early last week. the pod. Michael tina and i did a podcast. debating the greatest one on one players in the nba. And who would win a one on one tournament amongst all retired players in the nba. In that podcast peanut kevin garnett as his winner of a one on one tournament among all retired players in the nba. I rightfully freaked out earlier this week. Pena and the no good. Chris haring whose book that's available preorder amazon dot com. But i will not be buying it. slandered me while i was on vacation Trying to defend pena's insane take cagey one..
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"aaron gordon" Discussed on The NBA Show
"Once a year is being jerks. I got peacock. I watched the premiere. I don't watch the damn. Mls i'm sorry is a minor league. It's very products. I don't see why europeans can't do the same with the nba. Also say that. I grew up about thirty minutes from the hall of fame. And it's a lovely day trip. It's just like trying to block some tall guys. Shaw on a video board technology in the nineteen thousand nine hundred shaped like epcot. Ono's across the street have little pretty good laws ranch. Though since i've been gone five gold mine we just have the tap it. This manner of speaking when you're from new york city is this is just how we talk are related question which we discussed previously. But i'm curious what you guys. Thank here. Marcus saul retired. Well it seems like he's not really retiring but he's he's gonna play in spain and then go out kind of like pouted. This past season Do you think he would make the hall of fame. Just purely on merits of of the nba loan or the type of guy who's gonna need the european league slash international competition committee to tobacco for him to get a he needs the international stuff especially just as a guy who if you look at what matters to the hall of fame. Mark doesn't have any of the counting stats that gets guys in. Like he wasn't a big time score wasn't even a big time rebounded by the numbers super important player really good player but between coming to the nba. A little bit later. And if we're just like axing his international experience in terms of like olympic and febo play. I don't know that a couple of couple of all star appearances a defensive player of the year one championship. That's not usually the kind of resume that gets in for a player without substantial either great college success or great international success. I think he's for sure gonna get in. But it's going to be on the kind of split between his appeal as an international candidate and as a as a great success story in the nba to me mark assault type of guy. She'd be the benchmark for letting international dudes in this guy was legitimately one of the twenty five best players in the nba. At his at the height of his career. He was probably the best player. Knows grit and grind teams like. This was a real player. This dude was leading his team to victories. He was the reason why the defense was just completely insane at points. Right while starting zach randolph. I might add okay so to me. Marhsall is the model of like yet is dude came from overseas. It was legitimately one of the best basketball players in the world at the peak of his powers. Like legitimately making all star teams. Winning defensive player of the is like he was an elite. Nba player for large portion of his career. So if we're going to do this. Shit for toni kukoc dino raji like come on we gotta get marsala pin there. I love to get back. Dino raja jess yeah wow so get saul has three all stars to all. Nba one defensive player of the year. Award so yeah the based on credentials. Alone he his case would be dicey. I guess the count that gray spain team. Yeah if we're saying don't count. The international stuff at jews feel like being apart of two particularly memorable teams Probably ways in his favor just a bit like greeting grind was very much an era defining sorta team and he was obviously a huge part of that. And then like a win. The title on raptors team at took down the warriors. I feel like those type of things that especially as we get distance from them are gonna matter a little bit more in terms of just like sympathy and just like just the emotional residents case of him and the ball in memphis for his developing wasting away in the spanish league. Who knows if you would even made the nba. Yeah correct me. If i'm wrong. But it sounds like your point is less about disqualify all the euro experiencing national experience and more about if you were success overseas and you come to the nba in the nba. You're just a guy you're just donor along in my hall of fame..
The NBA Show
"aaron gordon" Discussed on The NBA Show
"Aaron gordon signs extension with the denver nuggets four years ninety two million player option on the last year seems like a pretty reasonable deal especially after the trade for last season definitely. Soak up some of the minutes. That jamal murray might have been vacating here early. Some of the responsibilities on the offensive end up my question. I think is the question that we always come down to with denver. They seem to be putting themselves in a dicey proposition as far as the luxury tax and fitting all these contracts and because one michael junior is also do an extension for next Robert worried at all about denver long term. Because they've talked a lot about being willing to pay the tax but they never actually done it. That's the big question right like if this is an announcement that the nuggets are playing in the big leagues. This is historically a franchise. It's taking care of their guys in terms of the draft. They develop a sign. Those guys to extensions as quickly as possible if this is a model where they're also paying the aaron gordon's of the world on top of that there really racking up that salary number this is what the real contenders do and the nuggets are in a position over the next couple of years if they want to be in that category and jamal jamal. Murray's recovery you know is on pace and as expected they're going to be in that group they deserve to be spending this much money to have a competitive team so remains to be seen. When the bill comes due are they going to be paying it or will they be pat. You know trading out of guys dishing salary trying to cut wherever they can. We'll have to wait. And see. But i think i think it speaks to at least a certain at least suggests that they might be willing to do that in a way that they weren't previously we don't tend to think of denver as the biggest cheapskates in the league but kind of are like outside of probably charlotte because he had mike is like hi dan but like outside of charlotte. Denver might be the biggest cheapskates in the entire. Nba like they avoid paying that luxury tax as if it's the play right And so i think this is an indication of to to give gordon to this type of money on an extension is like we believe in the core that we have. We think when jamal murray comes back and michael boorda junior develops into a real deal. Bona fide wing phenom. We're going to be one of the top teams in the west and so therefore we pay are probably in the scenario fourth best player twenty three twenty four million dollars a year. I think that's what this means. They think this team is the real deal. And also you know it's like book. Michael boorda you're not gonna bullies. Which which it makes you bro. That's curious like golfing cheese. Going to be a max player. If i was him i'd ask me. He thinks he's a max player the way he was throwing dollar bills at the club club. A regular clubs was i to is. I don't even need to have it confirmed by two sources. I'm the way he was dog. Papery he about to get a max porter jr. signing something similar to the deal that embiid signed when he signed his rookie extension where there are a lot of incentives based on playing time just to protect them from his injury history but yeah i think he's pretty much shown that you could be max caliber player. He's deserving of that kind of extension and that's the thing about the nuggets and whether or not they're cheaper not is. There are franchises that win. They're bad. clear the decks. It's like if we're not in the playoffs. I don't wanna be paying shit. I wanna be below the salary floor. And neil coming up to meet it. And then there are teams that win their competitive are trying to cut corners. The you know the heat. Trying to cut mike miller for luxury tax and his off lebron. You know you don't want to be in that category. I think that the nuggets are kind of on the verge of you know. They've always been the franchise that descend will pay for a contender willing to pay for a contender. Now we see. If that's true saying i'll put a ring or young.
The NBA Show
"aaron gordon" Discussed on The NBA Show
"That's on the cusp. And he's actually performing in helping them and taking them to another level. That's one thing. I don't know the job was going to perform that right. Like it's one thing to be overpaid. It's and i know this is gonna sound very profound but it's another thing that'd be vastly over chow. Wall is a this is gonna be tough. I'm going to be watching this closely because again you know. We'll get into this with aaron gordon but he is in clutch. We trust you know the way they do. Business is a lot different from a lot of people. So i'm i'm interested to see kids handle the thing about being overpaid too is. It's not just seeing a number and getting the sticker shock and the exorbitant salary. It just makes it more difficult to move other than the kinds of scenarios that sharks laid out with the clippers where you have multiple veterans on contracts worth like ten fifteen million or more. It's just hard to get enough money together much less to actually want this version of john wall. Will i wanna talk about the clippers. Part of this because charges suggestion was interesting. Because i thought about the clippers is option if he were to get bought out. I honestly couldn't come up with a single team. Who would actively trade for john wall on his contract. Which for the record is two years point. One seven million dollars The second year is a player option. He will most likely be taking that player option. And so like. Why do you think that fit makes sense. Like if you're just giving up like guys who are essential to the title-winning product with lsd. You like him in on team as a hope of course because john walls back in his heyday you know when he was leading the league in corner. Threes generated stuff like that like he was an incredible playmaker. He was incredible guys up. If finding open shooters and you know driving kick type of game like he was amazing at that he kind of left it. Because sometimes i think guys don't feel content being a table center. They feel like you. Get your name in sportscenter by getting buckets write. Hashtag buckets has to do the bucket..
NBA Front Office w/ Keith Smith & Trevor Lane
"aaron gordon" Discussed on NBA Front Office w/ Keith Smith & Trevor Lane
"This year, so if we remember, he came in on that contract that was a declining contract previous the one he signed with the magic. And he's probably outplayed it a little bit. At number feels a little big to me. I think about 20 million average annual value was what I had pegged for Gordon because you've already got jokic night so when reminder, this kicks in next season, this is not this year. So next year, when this kicks in, you'll have him at about 20 ish million. You'll have jokic at 33.6 tomorrow Mario 31.6. And I'm going to guess Michael Porter junior is going to be on the full max right around 29.7. And then you've got will Barton at 14.4 in Monte Morris at 9.1. That is an extremely expensive team. Now you've got your top 5 in your 6th man locked up. So you're not in a bad spot necessarily. If you're the nuggets, but yeah, if you believe in what happened after they traded for Gordon, when Maury was still healthy in that, that stretch, you can see why they did this because Denver looked like they might have been a title contender. If you are a little more skeptical on Aaron Gordon, then you start to think, boy, that's an awful lot of money to lock up for him. But I guess if you're Denver, you're looking at his look, we don't want to run the risk of losing this guy. I'm not exactly sure who the suitors would have been. This off season. It's not a great summer for cap space teams. Not a great summer to be a free agent, but you'd rather not mess around if you can get the guy locked in and what you feel is a pretty fair number. Get it done and keep this thing moving forward. Yeah, I mean, this isn't that far off from like, say what Lonzo Ball got or something. So I'm totally fine with Aaron Gordon getting this number because like you said, I think he does bring a piece that can take the nuggets to another level. And if you buy into what they did right before Jamal Murray got hurt, they looked like the team that was going to come out of the Western Conference. Now, again, there is that big qualifier there that we don't know for sure that that was going to be sustainable or not Denver clearly thinks that it was, but you also have the rating MVP. And so you've got to do everything you can to maximize that window to win to win right now. And you can say, look, even the MVP, right? Injury probably impacted that. Jokic is probably not the MVP if everybody stayed healthy around the NBA, but the reality is that you got it..
NBA Front Office w/ Keith Smith & Trevor Lane
"aaron gordon" Discussed on NBA Front Office w/ Keith Smith & Trevor Lane
"It's the contract that really complicates things here for his situation. So it'll be interesting to see how the Houston Rockets do handle this. It is a bit ironic. I mean, they go from Chris Paul to Russell Westbrook tonight and John wall and here we are. But it is good to hear that is an amicable situation. It says John wall demanding out. This is both sides came together and said, look, this is the reality of this situation. Let's work together and let's see what we can find. And so that's where now John wall's agency, they can go around to teams around the NBA and they can openly talk like, hey, what are you, what can you guys offer? What can we create here and they don't have to do anything secret behind closed doors because both sides are on the same page. And I think that does help the process. Yeah, for sure. Now, for the rocket side, without John wall playing, opens the path, Kevin Porter junior at much like he was after he got traded there is going to be the starting point guard for the Houston Rockets going into next season. My guess is they might bring Jalen green on along a little slowly. Maybe Eric Gordon starts initially, but my guess is by the holidays, it's Kevin Porter junior and Jalen green are playing all the meaningful minutes in that rockets backcourt and then the vets like Gordon DJ Augustine, David dewa, those guys are just going to be filling in here and there for those guys back up minutes. At this point, they're still trying to move Eric Gordon. We know that. That's been going on for months now that that's been rumored. So we'll see. But yeah, Kevin Porter junior, he wasn't bad. It's going to be bumpy at times, so it was, but why not you're not a good team, you might as well see if you can turn them into a point guard because if you can, you have an infinitely more valuable player than just an off ball wing player, which Porter probably is never going to shoot it enough to give you a ton of value there, but as an on ball guy, you might have something there..
NBA Front Office w/ Keith Smith & Trevor Lane
"aaron gordon" Discussed on NBA Front Office w/ Keith Smith & Trevor Lane
"Hello, everybody. Welcome back to the NBA front office show. We've got some NBA news to dive into today involving high profile names we're talking John wall and Aaron Gordon, but first, Keith, did you see the hawkeye trailer? Oh my gosh, I meant to talk about it on yesterday's show. And somehow it slipped my mind. It's die hard with a bow and arrow. I love it. Sign me up. I love it. I love the tag that the best gifts come with a ball. So that is phenomenal marketing. Yeah, I can't wait. To see this one, just like it was all the rest and so we'll get the eternals a couple of weeks ahead of that. And then okay on Thanksgiving eve and that's a nice night to get it because we generally won't have NBA games the next day. So we'll be able to watch hawkeye, probably one of the turkeys cooking and enjoy just a nice day of marvel and then some football food and family and all that good stuff. Gonna be a good time. I will say this. And I promise we will get to our NBA basketball stuff, but Jeremy Renner plays hawkeye. And my daughter, year or so ago, she was four, maybe she was still three at the time, but but she was pronouncing hawkeye as hot guy, like HOT. Nice. Guy, and my wife did not correct her. I don't know how to feel about that right now, but in any event, I'm sure that she'll watch that marvel series with lane household. Yeah. It was amazing. I love it. But anyway, this is that's an exciting thing that's going to be coming up. Sorry, we had to geek out a little bit over the marvel stuff and the hawkeye trailer, which was absolutely phenomenal. But there's some NBA news to break down. First, they'll make sure you guys do subscribe right here to the NBA front office, a YouTube channel. If you listen to the podcast version, make sure that you follow us up on Spotify, Apple podcasts, wherever it is, you listen to podcasts. We are growing this show, so please make sure that you do subscribe and don't forget to turn on notifications as well. Keith, let's start things off with John wall, a Houston rocket for now. But will not be a Houston rocket into the future. It sounds like he is going to be treatable. The rockets are hoping. They're hoping anyway. Let's get into that. What's going to happen here? The rockets, John wall working together to try to find a trade and he will not play any more games for Houston. Yeah, so this is that working together part is where it's very different from the 76ers and Ben Simmons who are not exactly working together. They're kind of working apart right now. So it sounds like by all accounts John wall has been very good in his time in Houston. He's been somebody that the younger players have really come to rely on for leadership. He's been a great leader for them. In the rockets are looking at insane..
Open Floor: SI's NBA Show
"aaron gordon" Discussed on Open Floor: SI's NBA Show
"You've played. You were an all star this season but like those you know the pull up. Mid range jumpers that. You're just taking like six a game. Let style those back and turn them into spot up threes. That are set up by kemba setup by tatum. I think that'll help our offense and that has helped boston's offense and if you just look like yeah tatum's usage has been going up. His efficiency has been going. He's taking more threes fewer of those contested frustrating twos. I do think that one of the variables for him for sure and variable is really a light term but having cove in the middle of the season and it actually impacting him I think that that cannot be overlooked. But one of the things that i wanted to talk about with kemba. Which kind of ties into this tatum. Conversation is if you look at the month by month. Usage rates for kemba walker and the month by month offensive rating kemba walker every month. His usage rate has gone down. Yes good let me guess. Less is more than i. Can i spoil this. And every month his offensive rating has gone up And so. I don't think that that is a coincidence. I think that You know trying to kemp is just not hitting shots. That he hit last season are the shots that he absolutely needs to hit to come. Close to justifying a max contract and so when you have him yeah less is more as a way to maybe a little crude. This is bringing me back to like algebra. You remember like as x approaches zero widen approaches infinity. Do you remember that at all. Where like you get the little curve just like taking off so like i think if kemba never shoots. Boston will score every possession if we continue this trend going forward. Maybe one of the dorkiest things i've ever said on this podcast but i know there's a few math guys out there that are with me and i actually think it's true. Of course you know. Give him ten shots again right. That's all we really need from campbell. And i actually think cutting has minutes. It's a smart play to okay. i don't need to you know. Be that critical of kemba. Think that he's he's very good and very important. It's just like the pull up. Twos that were a staple of his game for basically his entire career have been like atrocious. Long he just never been able to find it and so the way. He's drifted away from that. Shot has been just a boon for boston's offense when his on the floor. And i do think that you know. His great value is as someone who's like super speedy super zippy can get into the paint and then find shooters like the fact that they have forty eight. They have tatum. they have jalen. They have really good outset shooters now who are reliable. Kemba the playmaker. I think might be what is. Destiny is in the best version of himself on this year's team so them trying to find that and find that balance a little bit more as the season's gone on has been good for them. I mean look the point on the jumper. I mean it's ugly. Michael forty two percent from ten to sixteen feet. That's down from forty seven percent last year..
The Free Agents
Aaron Gordon Makes His Debut for the Nuggets Against the Hawks
"All right. Get into a little bit of basketball here. Aaron gordon the big acquisition at the deadline for the denver nuggets made his debut sunday verse. The hawks a solid debut might look the line and say thirteen points on six of nine shooting. That is exactly what the nuggets want. He played really well off to coca shed a beautiful dunk on the baseline. This is what they want him to be. They want him to be a cutter playing with better players for the first time in his career. I mean he's played with better players and vuckovich but not a player. I'm nicola yokich is standards. I just wondered when aaron gordon went over to the nuggets. Would he be able to cut that dribbling out. He played more like a superstar more ball in his hands. I'm going to do this thing on my own. Can he be a support player. He used nicole yoga's gravity pretty well in this game they will pick and roll action going nine shots. The only misses were from three point. Land the more tuesday better with aaron gordon. But he if he can fill that jeremy grant role that they lost last year in the playoffs. Just be that guy who's a third option and hit shots. I mean that is absolutely
The Free Agents
Aaron Gordon Addresses Trade Request
"Denver took care of orlando by double digits. And the magic's aaron gordon was very open about his trade request on his zoom presser after the game. I'm not sure if. I should applaud him for his forthrightness. Or if i yearn for the days where players would keep their demands. A little bit more covert. Screw it good for him even if it hurts the magic can get in return because they have little leverage. This seventh year player needs a new start. And he's been telling his team management for awhile that they need to change their ways as he candidly said on. Zoom that info doesn't really help their off-season attractiveness. Either but i heard the lines at disney are very short right now.
The Garden Report | Boston Celtics Post Game Show from TD Garden
"aaron gordon" Discussed on The Garden Report | Boston Celtics Post Game Show from TD Garden
"You kicking I give you $10,000. Yeah, ever everyone $10 for Aaron Gordon for John Collins next year. What were you calling the Phoenix and not cleared fanfiction? Yep. Yep, we can do. I mean this this is what drives me crazy here. We gotta do it every year. It's a it's a membership. You got to pay your money than it's worth three or four year membership know this is it I got her guys 10% everyone who got a stimulus check you get 10% of your check goes to the Celtics. That's an interesting question. Got it. Hang on to it man. Cuz I don't know. Hang on to it when when our video goes behind a paywall cuz like we get Like Crazy Subs, we'll just put a percentage of that subscription to the Celtics game. On the account, so we're actually contributing to their roster while we critique their roster. Yeah, so that's what we got man. It's not interesting. It's interesting. It seems like this is it but it's now we're getting close. I will Jimmy it's past 45 minutes. I will give you an option to say sayonara if guys you want to hang for a little while longer and keep going. We got a lot of people here watching so I do not mind continuing on but Jimmy I'll let you say like I said in any point in 10 more minutes and then ten more minutes, we'll take it to an hour and we're going to call it here. But I mean, you know you talk about tax for a second seriously though because I don't know enough about it. Well, this is going to all you need to know is that tax season? Come on, all you need to know is adding Gordon. The way we want to is going to push you another tax. All of a sudden you're paying tax in a year that you want to avoid it and then doing with what we suggested with Collins would push you deep into the attacks, but that's kind of what you need to do in this late win a championship. Let me ask you this Bobby. Is it possible and again Hans one of our one of our page one of our our regulars here watches every show and thank you all of you that do. Yeah. Exactly. Well, it's a great it's a great song the name to username but calls and Bob Evans, right? Huh? It's The Simpsons. It's the little wrinkly guy. I'm thirty-two years old. He looks like he's a hundred. Huh? Yep. That's a great day at Hans vollman. The Collins in Bogdan is the other theoretical trade that's similar to this in terms of pieces right off. A team that isn't sure they want to re-sign a guy and they want to get rid of another contract and this is similar ish. Even though Bogdan is you know is not expiring like Fournier, but wage is that a better is that also involves potentially smart and other pieces is that deal better for the Celtics? Is that pair better for them? Cuz it is kind of it seems like the framework is in the ballpark similar. It fails gets what they want to do first, right and then not sure if they think that they can if you said your scenario Bobby of hey, who knows maybe they get competitive and sign them anyway sign them to an offer sheet. Anyway that they're holding off on Collins cuz they think they know what they would do effectively is trade for the 5 million..
The Garden Report | Boston Celtics Post Game Show from TD Garden
"aaron gordon" Discussed on The Garden Report | Boston Celtics Post Game Show from TD Garden
"Everyone's like well if he's well, he's a totally different player. I think you're you're hoping Gordon is more than a but I don't know if he is that yet. What do you guys think just of the player Gordon before we get into the deals? Okay, first yeah, you go first. So I I did text you guys was like, what does Gordon? What does Aaron Gordon actually do well and I don't know if there's a I don't know if there's one thing that stands out like way above the rest but I will say in order to convince myself that this is a good idea for the Celtics. I just did what anybody would do. I just checked and Aaron Aaron Gordon highlights on YouTube and I just started with you got the best of the best and positive vibes only. I don't want to see anything. He does does wrong. I just want to see everything he does. Well in the one thing that I will say what you know, based on the only awesome things. I saw half of it was the dumb conquer. This guy's dangerous in the pain. He he's a forest driving to the basket. He sent me that you don't want to get in the way of he does play Above the Rim. I think that he does have like that aggressiveness like that presence that we always are saying like, why doesn't Jalen Drive why isn't Tatum Drive why don't these guys drive and create contact and you know, get to know that stuff off. I think Aaron Gordon has that ability. He's a get the Big Frame, you know, we play complaint that for position. Well, and I think you know you guys already mentioned it like allows them to do a couple of different things on defense wage. So that those are like the Aaron Gordon pauses now, you can't shoot is going to be one of those players where if he's taking 3-pointers, you're basically like why you probably don't want him taking three years or taking those long to do is taking 3 exactly so that that that's where you're going to have to like the pros and the cons are some will go in but you don't really want to it doesn't it doesn't make you it doesn't make you better shooting team. Yeah. Yeah, you know, that's why they want but I think if if he does what he can do well, which is you know, get some full steam ahead, you know him and him and robbed out there at the same time. I mean, those are two guys that would be, you know, pretty pretty big Force, you know, Above the Rim there so there might be there might be some positives to it. But obviously when you're talking about a a a tpe type guy and this time of year, there are certainly going to be players available to have them. So I'm sure that you know, he checks up all this box has two. Yeah. Definitely. I think a lot of it has to do with this is what what's in his Arsenal right doesn't do anything particularly great, but it's athleticism know what he can do defensively his capabilities..
The Garden Report | Boston Celtics Post Game Show from TD Garden
"aaron gordon" Discussed on The Garden Report | Boston Celtics Post Game Show from TD Garden
"Oh my God, I think that was before was that before Angela and was he like ninety-nine? I think it's all the details like a second-year second. It's it's deep Brown It's de klerk. It's ednie. It's pervis Ellison Travis. Yeah, I think Kenny and I don't know because these for when I thought I was getting that charge his first year. Yeah. That's that's the that's the chance of rain for 3 year 3 and three didn't they train Kenny Anderson for Chauncey Billups traded Mercer almost forgot. The Tulips right away right away. Yeah. Yep. Yeah. I mean you want to you don't want to play in Toronto. Nineteen. Ninety-eight. Can I say this? Mm? No, I don't think so. Just to throw this in there. I'll save it. I was going to say throwing this at Nick 1998. You're jamming yourself into the paint for 18 points every game. I know that's a high end of things then but you're watching this tonight. Ja Morant can throw a skip pass from one corner when the defense is throwing it to the left to the other side for a wide open 3, how many guys could page nineteen ninety-eight. I'm just imagining all five of these guys jamming themselves into the post to get that many points. I mean people think the NBA sinks today, but I look at a game like this versus what whatever that was in nineteen. Ninety eight months. Give me this 10 times out of 10. NBA doesn't take it. Like I said, it's just too many priests Rod Strickland would do that in his sleep kid Rod Strickland basketballs pretty wrong. Work for when you work for two's then then it is jacking three is it's just it's prettier if you can work passing and you you know, yeah, I mean, you don't want to watch any any highlights from the Celtics 1998 team Juventus is ugly basketball. That's ugly. But generally speaking it probably wasn't always like that. Yeah the year I went to the left. So things were dark, you know right off dark days. So I guess you know, you know, we could we could get right into the garden and stuff cuz I think he's so excited about it. Well, no, I mean look, it's interesting. Right? It's so that the reports are many at this point, but they're kind of all over the place Celtics considered front-runners for Aaron Gordon though wage, you know a couple of people who reported it are also like it's not closed. I guess, you know, the skinny at this point is Celtics got the two firsts which gets them dead. In line with what Houston had offered which was the clubhouse leader in terms of best offer on the table so far for Gordon.
The Garden Report | Boston Celtics Post Game Show from TD Garden
"aaron gordon" Discussed on The Garden Report | Boston Celtics Post Game Show from TD Garden
"Of the Hawks have right now is that they went into the offseason this past offseason looking to bolster the roster with big-name additions that could get them into the Play-Off and then they they came out the gates and they suck got rid of the coach Nate McMillan is running the show having lost the Gates has made to go over. So now all the guys that they were having conversations with about possibly moving. They're asking birth. Yeah, obviously it's gone up. So now it's like they're in a tough spot because they can't really do the kind of deals. They would have done if they were like the 14th best team in the office. Now, you're like 7 or 6. So if you're going to give up a piece and risk potentially not getting to the playoffs or hurting your team in the short-term. You've gotta get some assets. You gotta give me more than frankly than you're giving away and to Bobby's point games are probably going to have to give them three or four pics to get John Collins, even if those pics suck even if those pics are like six hours that are unprotected or or some type of you know mechanisms by which they can get asked is whether they can prove you have the option of flipping pigs have to get something that is bigger grander and greater than what you could have got done with them like maybe three four weeks ago, but it's a good thing too. So true. You know, what you feel like Sera. I feel like games sort of like put down. Blueprint and everyone's like okay, that's how you do it with the with the whole new draft, you know, like he's going to change his own medicine in Houston took a page that you know other teams that are Washington like that's the thing and now it's like when he when he's the one call and it's like wait a minute Danny, you know what we want. You know what it's going to take like be, you know, be real get me wrong. We've seen the risk of doing it Houston's in an awful sweat Houston has had to lose 20 games because they're pixel in Oklahoma City don't if they don't go to the bottom of the week cuz of that awful Russell Westbrook, you can end up looking stupid pretty fast giving up multiple first-round picks, but it's either or John, you know, you're probably not getting a deal done right now talking are putting on the table..
The Garden Report | Boston Celtics Post Game Show from TD Garden
"aaron gordon" Discussed on The Garden Report | Boston Celtics Post Game Show from TD Garden
"Love when guys are just moved like well yellow Chicago when they beat Illinois, I mean if you had a chance to watch any visit, I gave my God they put on a club. Princeton Georgetown baby, that's what we want to see exactly what we got better athletes. So you can you can have the best of both worlds. You can still have that and you can have guy's name now shot on transitional. It's not a college basketball basketball, you know, most of the right play a huge. That's the basics right? You got to go back to to to what's going to overall make this team better. Yeah. Mark instead of a great job of that today, you know, and he picked the spot. He wasn't, you know, trying to be another choice is everyone can't stand sometimes right where you just okay? I'm going to try to you know, make things better from shooting or or by being aggressive and and taking over the game and he didn't do that. So I thought that was a that went a long way for the purpose of course, but but yeah, I mean I'm with you in the sense that this Celtics team, it's just it it's like they're I think John I think you said earlier in the season. It's like they're learning how to win games throughout the course of C ROM. And that was cute for like a month. But now when we're talking, you know 42 + games then it's like yeah, like a short said you you shouldn't be you know ecstatic about this when you should I mean we should if I'm them I'm thinking if I'm smart we should have crushed this team by Twenty points, you know, and you have to approach it seemed like the magic like that because back to that games Milwaukee bugs, you don't come correct. They will put you in your place real quick. And then again, we're back at you know, where is this thing going to go from here? That's why I was a little concerned that we didn't see a lot more system Tatum and brown. Okay. Yeah, we gotta win. But again, I think they have to find new ways or better ways of making their teammates better them on their own maybe not just by Marcus Smart's, you know demeanor, but you know when the shots aren't Fallen what's going to happen with the brown making Seventeen years or combining for seven super important? What happens then these are Hollow victories in that regard for me because again, I hate I hate playing the make Miss League thing, but that's a big issue is, you know, you did not dead. Wasn't a big point in the pain game. The only got to the free-throw line the 28 points in the paint. They got to the free-throw line nine times. They made all nine, which is great. But that's not you know, these these winds are not sustainable again if you make and again, I mean, you don't even have to shrink it down to too far..
AP News Radio
Celtics run past Magic 124-97 after week-long hiatus
"Jaylen brown and the Celtics showed little rust in a one twenty four ninety seven route of the magic after a week long layoff brown had twenty one points and eight assists to lead Boston in its first game since January eighth following three straight postponements amid the team's Colbert nineteen outbreak we now more than ever need to realize like this can be taken away just like that so every time we get a chance to go out there we were winning losing time why not leave your member that semi Chile added eighteen points in the eight in three Celtics fifth straight win despite star Jayson Tatum remaining sidelined due to cope with health and safety protocols Aaron Gordon's team high seventeen points couldn't save the six and six magic from a fourth straight loss I'm given called law
WTOP 24 Hour News
Washington DC chefs band together to create new ‘ghost’ restaurant due to pandemic
"On how restaurants are finding new ways to adapt to survive during this pandemic in DC is Global Park neighborhood. What used to be a popular restaurant and bar has been gutted. We turned our entire biggest dining room of the former restaurant and turn into a giant bakery. Aaron Gordon is the owner of Ghost Line. Which took this old restaurant space on Wisconsin Avenue and turned it into several many restaurants. There is outdoor seating, but most customers either order take out or delivery. The different chefs used to shared staff to help make it all go. I think anytime you compared to a food court, it comes with negative connotations, but that's kind of how it works. Executive chef Peter Smith thinks this idea will take off rents are expensive. And that's a lot of sandwiches or a lot of plates or a lot of entrees. You got to sell. If you got everybody in one place you're splitting the rent up in
First Things First
Derrick Jones Jr. edges Aaron Gordon in controversial dunk contest
"Game was great. But we're going to rewind to Saturday night controversial slam dunk contests watches. Aaron Gordon Dunk off the side of the backboard spinning. Razi -solutely incredible. It was one of Gordon's five fifty point slams on the night so he obviously one right now. No we didn't.
KNBR Tonight with Drew Hoffar & Kevin Frandsen
The most epic dunks from the 2020 NBA Slam Dunk Contest
"Here what did you make of all star weekend I feel like this might have been strong as all star weekend he's in a while three point competition was very good don't contest had some controversy in the all star game I feel like this was a great all star weekend do you know what I do you have the least amount of hype going into and the I I don't know how many years I mean it's just been decreasing year after year the hype going into it but they did not disappoint I mean to go and that extra I don't know what will actually dogs over time in a dunk contest and coming down to the last ball of buddy Hield taken out Devin Booker as the defending champ I mean it doesn't get any better than those things I mean the controversy of the dunk contest is going to live on forever it's it's guy and I've never seen anything and like exhibition match you're just like all star weekend they have bands and just where is everybody all up in arms like it it's it's unbelievable I mean Aaron Gordon one of the best dunkers of all time and some say that rob twice as big here Jones was very very deserving but I definitely I'm is really angry with the judges the dog got does more than anything because I think it was basically you call you can't have five of these in the dunk contest in a row and then lose the odds and their Jones junior kept going back to a different version of the same dunk which was more impressive almost every time she but Aragorn his was so creative and just stop they in you never see and I you did it just how you hold this poses and just what a I mean gracefully than the error but then later when you get down in the energy he brings to the crowd at me and he he's an entertainer like nobody else so it's national do you have a take away from that yeah no I'm with you I think I think what the dunk contest I do think the Aaron Gordon should a one if you're gonna dunk over taco fall I feel like that you get through the wind where you're right he was great leading up to that he then jumps over taco in clears on why I kind of feel like Aaron Gordon one now I'm with you Jones his don't really to what's more differently I do think I actually don't think Gordon got robbed the first time because I think that Zak Levin is a better doctor than he is I actually do think he got robbed than this one okay you're hear me out though there Jones junior lead yup dumped over bam bam barely bent over where taco had to bend down to basically banned level was pretty even there but Derek Jones junior the distance he had to go to the ram was so much further than Aaron Gordon over van and your Jones junior went through the lakes on that one and it is unbelievable and he barely barely made Bamba and over I know bands six nine or so so it's much different there yet kako still got quite a bit on even bent over hi there John junior that region the fact is so far away from the rim when that went down was with special I just one way can't be a judge I mean you so tied to these players Candace Parker bless her heart I mean I respect your as a player person but like I think we need and then if these actors like what calendar you Sears catalogue both men I mean you're literally just look stoned out of it okay of those pretty incredible like the due date really carries a oak okay he's there to give it a nine you gotta get with with that okay all all do it we need to bring back the legend judges like employer is it we want the bus talented and big don contest our favorite athletes get military putting on the best performances we got a show we actually care by giving him judges who are going to take this seriously therefore they'll come out and compete I think we're losing a lot from the the way it's set up right now and we got to have a back up plan for when things do go this well I mean you can't just have dunk after dunk and then somebody screw up the scoring that's not
AP News Radio
Jones Jr., Adebayo, Hield winners at epic All-Star Saturday
"The slam dunk contest went to overtime before Miami's Derek Jones defeated Orlando's Aaron Gordon Jones total for perfect scores well Gordon at five but on their last dunks Jones prevail by one point Jones was pretty happy afterwards so great notice been able to give an achievement like this on a day like this most of the special for me you know if this is the day that I'm a I'm a I'm a to my kids if make sure that they know that this is a day for me Jones wasn't the only winner from Miami as teammate bam at a bio one the skills contest over the Pacers demont us a bonus and in the three point contest Sacramento's buddy Hield defeated the Suns Devin Booker when he connected on his final shot the NBA all star game is Sunday night David Shuster Chicago
AP News Radio
James Harden scores 54 points, Rockets rout Magic 130-107
"It was another career night for James harden as the rockets down the magic one thirty one oh seven on the magic's home floor in Orlando harden scored fifty four points hitting ten of fifteen from three point land and that is now the fifth time this season and the fourth time in the last seven games all we also add seven assists five rebounds and two steals in thirty six minutes rockets as a team of twenty two of thirty nine from three point range the magic were without their star center Nikola Gucci which Evan forty a stepped up for the magic with twenty seven points Aaron Gordon added twenty one Calchas airdrop Orlando