{"id":859949,"date":"2026-10-16T00:27:22","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T00:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/859949\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T00:27:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T00:27:22","slug":"full-court-magic-orlando-magic-miami-heat-rivalry-breakdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/859949\/","title":{"rendered":"Full Court Magic: Orlando Magic, Miami Heat Rivalry Breakdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the Heat&#8217;s offseason star power and the Orlando Magic&#8217;s strengths:<br \/>\n&#8220;Throughout our lifetime, Don, we&#8217;ve seen superstars come to Miami, and it&#8217;s been a minute. I know Jimmy was here for six years, but it&#8217;s been a minute since we had a legitimate superstar. So, this has got me pumped up for this season&#8230; Definitely the size. Obviously, when you look at a front court with Paolo Banchero, Franz Wagner, and Wendell Carter Jr., there&#8217;s a lot of length there. The Heat did not have that size last year. They were very reliant on a fast-paced offense where they just run up and down the court, no plays, run what you want to run, and then from there on hope for the best&#8230; For the Magic, it has to be the three-point shooting. That has to come around this time of the year if they want to find success. And I believe it starts with Paolo Banchero. He&#8217;s not the best three-point shooter, but I believe he can become at least an efficient threat. So if he can get that going, it really unlocks the offense. Franz Wagner obviously missed a ton of time last year. That really hurt the Magic, especially come playoff time. Having that size is still going to do them a lot of justice throughout the year. But if they can get that three-point shooting, that could potentially put them over the hump than what most would expect in the Eastern Conference.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On the Heat&#8217;s offseason star power and the Orlando Magic&#8217;s strengths: &#8220;Throughout our lifetime, Don, we&#8217;ve seen superstars&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":859950,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3779],"tags":[7,48,189,6,47,76,3883],"class_list":["post-859949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando-magic","tag-basketball","tag-magic","tag-miami-heat","tag-nba","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-magic","tag-orlandomagic"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/117447756560289228","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859949","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=859949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/859950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=859949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=859949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=859949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}