ORLANDO, Fla. — In their first season with Sean Sweeney as coach, the Orlando Magic will open at home Oct. 21 against a Southeast Division opponent that they could not beat all last season, the Atlanta Hawks, and end their regular season on the road against a Southeast Division team they swept last season, the Miami Heat.

Both opponents will challenge Orlando President of Basketball Operations Jeff Weltman’s decisions to stick mostly with last season’s roster and look for health and a new approach by Sweeney compared to former coach Jamahl Mosley. The Hawks and Heat made big changes to their rosters in the offseason, with the Heat adding former MVP Giannis Antetokounmpo and former Milwaukee Bucks teammate Bobby Portis and the Hawks dealing for two former Oklahoma City Thunder championship team players, defensive demon Luguentz Dort and multiskilled guard Aaron Wiggins.

The NBA announced the league’s full-season schedule on Thursday,

The Magic will face Mosley and his new team, the Pelicans, on Jan. 8 in New Orleans and on March 30, in Orlando, and that game is slated to be on NBC/Peacock.

The season will offer its share of challenges, with 14 back-to-back games, when they play a game and then take the court again the next night. That is about the season average, and no team will play more than 16. Six of the Magic’s back-to-backs, involving 12 games, will be on the road. Four back-to-backs will come on nights when they play a home game and then go on the road.

Their longest stretch of road games comes from March 10-18, when they will play five games over nine days, but all those games are in the Eastern Conference. That will follow their longest homestand of the season, six games in 13 days from Feb. 25-March 9. The Magic also will be home for the holidays. Their last game before Thanksgiving will be Tuesday, Nov. 24, and they won’t play again until Nov. 28, the start of a three-game road trip. They will play at home from Dec. 21-27.

Their busiest month of the season will be January, when they play 17 games. From the opening of the season through November, the Magic play 12 of their 19 games on the road. Their road trips to the West Coast will be four games from Nov. 5-11 and from Jan. 12-17, which will end in Denver. 

NBA teams play most opponents in their conference four times apiece, but Orlando has only three each against the defending champion New York Knicks, the star-laden Philadelphia 76ers, who added superstar Lebron James and former Boston Celtic forward Jaylen Brown in the offseason; and the No. 1 Eastern Conference team in the 2025-26 regular season, the Detroit Pistons. Two of the three games against New York and Philadelphia will be in Orlando. The Magic will face the Boston Celtics and Toronto Raptors four times apiece. Orlando went 1-3 against Boston last season and 1-2 vs. Toronto. At least one game against the Pistons and one vs. the Raptors will be NBA Cup games.

The Magic’s national TV game presence is down from last season, with eight regular-season games. They play one game on NBC/Peacock, two on ESPN, four on Peacock/NBC Sports Network and one on Amazon Prime. None of those games are on the NBA showcase days of Opening Night or the rest of the first week of the season, the NBA Cup, Christmas, Martin Luther King Jr.’s Birthday or Presidents Day. After playing in Puerto Rico (preseason), London and Berlin last season, they have no international games.

Orlando’s NBA Cup Group Play games will be Oct. 30 at Toronto, Nov. 13 at home against the Milwaukee Bucks, Nov. 20 in Brooklyn against former teammate Moe Wagner and the Nets and Nov. 24 against Detroit. The rest of its Cup schedule depends on its performance in the group play games.

The full schedule is on the Magic’s website.

Single-game tickets for the 2026-27 season go on sale on Friday, Aug. 14 at 1 p.m. and will be available online at OrlandoMagic.com/tickets, at the Kia Center box office (on Church Street) or via Ticketmaster at Ticketmaster.com/Magic.