Magic Starting 5: 'Exciting Season' Coming, Says CEO Alex Martins

"My expectation is the same as the previous 34 years," Orlando Magic CEO Alex Martins said. "Teams that put it all out on the floor, play well together, play hard together, and put on a great show for our fans. It's going to be an exciting season."

1. MARTINS' EXPECTATIONS "My expectation is the same as the previous 34 years," Martins said. "Teams that put it all out on the floor, play well together, play hard together, and put on a great show for our fans. It's going to be an exciting season."

2. MAGIC UNDERRATED? "The Orlando Magic are one of the younger teams in the league, but just sorting everyone by average age doesn't quite illustrate that," Bleacher Report writes.

3. FUTURE POWER RANKINGS "Bumping the Orlando Magic into the top half of the league represents a huge vote of confidence in their young core, but the players in that group have earned it," Bleacher Report writes. "The optimism starts with Franz Wagner and Paolo Banchero, who have the potential to become one of the game's very best forward duos within the next three years."

4. SUGGS POTENTIAL "In some ways, Suggs spent his first two seasons attempting to find an offensive niche that he still hasn't harnessed," Bleacher Report writes. "But peep his situation through a half-full glass, and you might change the narrative to say he's spent these campaigns cementing himself as an impact defender, which would grant him a towering ceiling if his offense ever comes around."

5. ARENAS RIPS HAKEEM “Nobody wants the Hakeem Olajuwon sky hook,” Arenas said on his Gil’s Arena podcast earlier this week. “Nobody wants none of that s–t. …You should be ashamed of yourself, charging these young whippersnappers $50,000. When you came in the league in 1984, you wasn’t even making $50,000 a game. You’re trying to make your month back through the youth! Do not charge these boys 50 f-----g grand for that bull----. He ain’t been good since the ’90s. That means all the moves from the 2000s, he don’t know. 2010s, he don’t know. 2020s, he don’t know. Who the f— you gonna do the moves on? Wembanyama?”