{"id":586636,"date":"2026-02-06T17:38:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T17:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/586636\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T17:38:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T17:38:15","slug":"orlando-magic-to-sign-nba-free-agent-jevon-carter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/586636\/","title":{"rendered":"Orlando Magic to sign NBA free agent Jevon Carter"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Magic<\/a> are expected to sign free agent guard Jevon Carter for the remainder of the season, a league source confirmed to the Orlando Sentinel<\/a> on Friday morning.<\/p>\n

Carter played in 23 games this season with Chicago, averaging 5.4 points and 1.1 rebounds during 11.1 minutes per contest while shooting 41% from 3-point range.<\/p>\n

He was waived by the Bulls on Feb. 1.<\/p>\n

Orlando<\/a> had two standard contract roster spots open after it traded Tyus Jones (along with two second-round picks) to the Hornets for cash considerations ahead of Thursday\u2019s NBA trade deadline<\/a>, and only had 14 days to get back up to 14 standard contract players signed to its roster.<\/p>\n

Speaking for the first time following the trade deadline Thursday afternoon before Orlando took down the Nets<\/a> at Kia Center<\/a>, Magic president of basketball operations Jeff Weltman<\/a> described the type of player the team would be searching for to replace Jones.<\/p>\n

\u201cHopefully for us, probably a veteran,\u201d Weltman said. \u201cBut I would also say, those guys generally aren\u2019t going to move the needle a lot, and I don\u2019t want to do it just for the sake of doing it, you know? Right now, (we need to) get our guys back healthy, get on the floor. Our roster is \u2014 I\u2019ll let other people talk about how good it is \u2014 but it\u2019s fairly well-balanced. It\u2019s complete. If I say we\u2019re going to bring in a 32-year-old guy who\u2019s a great open 3-pointer shooter, but how do we get him on the court? So like, what does that do?<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, I don\u2019t know,\u201d he added. \u201cWe\u2019ll kind of like go through the process of seeing the next few days, who shakes out. There could be some surprises or talk to agents who are saying, \u2018Hey, listen, my guy, they\u2019ve said they\u2019d buy him out if you guys are interested,\u2019 and that sort of stuff. We might just keep our powder dry for a bit. I don\u2019t know. I wouldn\u2019t look at that minimum guy who\u2019s going to be on the buyout mark at this stage as a needle mover.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Weltman isn\u2019t inaccurate in his description of Orlando\u2019s roster makeup \u2014 the team already features guards Jalen Suggs, Desmond Bane and Anthony Black along with rookie Jase Richardson and guard-forward Jett Howard \u2014 Carter could be of service for a younger locker room.<\/p>\n

A second-round pick with the Grizzlies in 2018, the 6-foot-1 guard has appeared in 435 career NBA regular season games with Memphis, Phoenix, Brooklyn, Milwaukee and Chicago.<\/p>\n

He has also played 22 playoff games between Phoenix and Milwaukee, while helping the Suns reach the NBA Finals in 2020-21, his third-year in the league.<\/p>\n

A 38.1% career 3-point shooter, the 30-year-old Carter is also known as a strong defender, especially around the perimeter.<\/p>\n

As both a junior (2016-17) and senior (\u201917-18) at the University of West Virginia, he captured the Lefty Driesell Award (national Defensive Player of the Year), the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) Defensive Player of the Year and the Big 12 Defensive Player of the Year.<\/p>\n

The only player to ever be named to the Big 12 All-Defensive Team four times, he still stands as West Virginia\u2019s all-time leader in steals with 330.<\/p>\n

Jason Beede can be reached at jbeede@orlandosentinel.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Magic are expected to sign free agent guard Jevon Carter for the remainder of the season, a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":586637,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3779],"tags":[7,165,48,6,47,76,3883,1412,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-586636","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando-magic","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-latest-headlines","10":"tag-magic","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-orlando","13":"tag-orlando-magic","14":"tag-orlandomagic","15":"tag-social","16":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116024909236465221","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=586636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/586637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}