Santana's "Black Magic Woman" is a classic rock song that has captivated audiences for decades. The song was originally released in 1970 on Santana's album "Abraxas." Since then, it has become one of their most well-known and beloved songs. The song starts with a mesmerizing and haunting guitar riff that immediately grabs the listener's attention. Carlos Santana's distinctive guitar playing is one of the defining elements of the song, and his soulful and passionate performance is a highlight throughout. The lyrics of "Black Magic Woman" tell the story of a seductive and mysterious woman who has the power to captivate and control men.

Revisiting the assets acquired in the Dwight Howard blockbuster trade

The Dwight Howard deal was met with criticism from Orlando Magic fans at the time. But the trade still has significance in the foundation of this new Orlando team.

By Harrison Brown | Dec 7, 2023

The lyrics of "Black Magic Woman" tell the story of a seductive and mysterious woman who has the power to captivate and control men. The song's lyrics are simple yet evocative, perfectly complementing the hypnotic music. The song's popularity was further boosted by its inclusion in the iconic 1999 film "The Parent Trap," starring Lindsay Lohan.

Revisiting the assets acquired in the Dwight Howard trade

Nikola Vucevic and Arron Afflalo

The two players who significantly impacted the Orlando Magic from the trade were Arron Afflalo and Nikola Vucevic.

Afflalo was 27 years old when he came to Orlando and had just had a career year. He averaged 15.2 points per game with the Denver Nuggets as their second leading scorer.

The Nuggets lost in the first round of the playoffs to the Lakers in seven games that season, but Afflalo proved he could be a primary scorer on a competitive team.

He joined Orlando and improved his scoring to 16.5 points per game and was second behind Tobias Harris to lead the Magic in points per game. Afflalo started in all 64 games in his first season and took a big step the following year.

Orlando had the second worst offensive rating during the 2014 season and would have been dead last if not for Afflalo.

He averaged a team-high 18.2 points per game the following season which is the 36th highest scoring average in Magic history. The team finished 13th in the Eastern Conference, but Afflalo proved that he was reaching an elite offensive level, even flirting with an All-Star bid.

That summer Orlando traded Arron Afflalo back to Denver in exchange for Evan Fournier and a 2014 second round draft pick. The Magic realized they needed to trade Afflalo to receive some returning value and not let him walk in free agency. And it was the right move.

The Magic selected Devyn Marble with the 2014 second round draft pick and he was an end of bench player for two seasons. He had promise as a catch-and-shoot threat but ultimately couldn't produce at the NBA level.

Fournier was the perfect addition to Orlando's roster at the time. The Magic were slowly getting younger and completing the roster overhaul. During the 2013 offseason, three of the top six scorers from last season were no longer on the team.

Jameer Nelson, Glen Davis and Arron Afflalo made up 44 percent of the team's points from the prior season and Orlando needed scoring.

Fournier was given the ultimate greenlight to score the basketball and that is exactly what he did. In retrospect he beat Victor Oladipo out for the starting shooting guard spot which led to the Oladipo trade.

Fournier flourished as a volume shooter on a team that needed floor spacing. He became third in Magic history in total threes made, eighth in total points, ninth in total games and 10th in total assists.

Orlando decided to trade Fournier right before his contract expired and probably held onto him too long. He was pivotal for the Magic's offense throughout his time with the team. The Orlando teams in 2019 and 2020 would not have made the playoffs with out him.

Fournier ended up netting the team two second round picks during the trade deadline in March of 2021.

The Magic acquired a 2025 second round pick via Boston or Memphis and a 2027 second round pick from Boston. That is not a bad return for Fournier as he was a rental for the Celtics and only played in 21 total games for the franchise.

Time will tell if those two second round picks amount to anything, but the on-court production that Evan Fournier delivered is a trickle down correlation from the Dwight Howard trade.

Nikola Vucevic was an unknown when the Magic acquired him. He had just spent his rookie season with the Philadelphia 76ers and averaged a modest 5.5 points per contest.

He immediately became the starting center for Orlando after the trade and started in 77 games. Vucevic was already an integral piece for the new Magic roster.

There were issues with his game when he was younger that were hard to ignore, particularly on defense. He had difficulty guarding the pick and roll and defending the rim.

It always felt like Vucevic was a placeholder -- someone putting up big stats on a bad team. But Orlando always kept returning to him and his consistency every night.

Former general manager Rob Hennigan decided in the 2016 offseason to solidify the Magic's defense and brought in Bismack Biyombo after a terrific playoff run with the Toronto Raptors.

Biyombo would push Vucevic to the bench for 20 games that season, but Vucevic proved that his offensive abilities overcame what Biyombo could do on defense. Per 36 minutes, Vucevic out-rebounded Biyombo by 3.1 rebounds. Since that season Vucevic started every game he ha played in.

When Steve Clifford was hired in the summer of 2018, Vucevic's game was elevated. Clifford strictly ran the offense through Vooch which led to his first All Star appearance.

Vucevic would go on to make two All-Star selections within the three years Clifford was the head coach and broke several Magic records during his nine-year tenure.

In Vucevic's final season, the Magic front office had no other choice but to tear down the current roster and restart, and that began with the Vucevic trade. Vucevic had reached his peak value during this stretch and was averaging 24.5 points per game for the struggling Magic.

The 2021 trade that sent Nikola Vucevic to the Bulls has elevated the Orlando Magic to a playoff team this season. The combination of Franz Wagner, Wendell Carter and Jett Howard is a result of Orlando developing Nikola Vucevic as a part of the Dwight Howard trade.

Franz Wagner is the young All Star the Magic were expecting to receive in the Dwight Howard trade more than 10 years ago.

He is climbing Magic leaderboards in his third season. He is top 20 in games started, top 20 in threes made, and top 24 in points scored. He is only 22 years old and the Magic have played 24 percent of the season.

Wagner still has not sniffed his full potential and his future is among the league's brightest.

All three of these lottery picks are younger than 25 years old. It is hard to believe Carter is only 24 and currently playing in his sixth season.

Carter and Wagner are starters for this team and Howard can easily become a volume scorer as he becomes more comfortable in an NBA system.

This Magic team is different than the Dwight Howard era. This team has embraced Orlando and built a culture that is impossible to ignore.

The team plays harder than any other organization in basketball and consider themselves a family. Dwight Howard and the saga that ended his tenure with the Magic seemed almost disrespectful to the team and the fans.

He handled his decision to request a trade in an immature style and led to his career decline. Howard is no longer thought of in the same light as he was as Orlando's Superman.

Howard only spent one season with the Lakers before deciding to walk away in free agency. The Magic are still reaping the benefits of the assets that were acquired in the Howard trade while the Lakers were left empty-handed -- do not cry for them, they still ended up with LeBron James and a title in 2020 for their trouble.

The trade in 2012 did not lead to immediate success, but the current Magic roster is building something special which at it's core is attributed to the Howard trade and Vucevic's rise to stardom.

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Orlando traded its superstar 10 years ago and has been left with two current starters, one lottery-pick rookie and two future draft picks. The future is as bright as it has been since 2012 and Howard is partially responsible.

Kai Sotto all set for NBA Summer League as Magic roster, schedule revealed

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KEY PIECE. Kai Sotto has long been seen as one of the cornerstones for Gilas Pilipinas' FIBA World Cup squad.

At 7-foot-3, Kai Sotto is the tallest player in the 22-man roster announced by the Orlando Magic for the NBA Summer League

MANILA, Philippines – Kai Sotto will team up and go up against the best young NBA talents as he suits up for the Orlando Magic in the Summer League in Las Vegas starting on July 7.

Named by the Magic to their 22-man Summer League roster, the Filipino star will share the court with top 10 picks Anthony Black and Jett Howard in the squad to be mentored by Dylan Murphy, the Osceola Magic head coach.

Black and Howard were selected sixth and 11th overall, respectively, by the Magic in the recent NBA Draft, where 7-foot-4 Frenchman Victor Wembanyama went No. 1.

Standing at 7-foot-3, Sotto is the tallest Magic player and will fight for minutes against fellow big men DJ Wilson and Robert Baker, with hopes of getting enough exposure in his bid to sign with an NBA team for the 2023-2024 season.

The 6-foot-10 Wilson played five seasons in the NBA for the Milwaukee Bucks, Houston Rockets, and Toronto Raptors, while the 6-foot-11 Baker hopes to ink an NBA deal just like Sotto after going unpicked in the 2020 draft.

Other notable players in the Magic roster include their two-way players Caleb Houstan and Kevon Harris and former PBA import Malcolm Hill.

Hill, who saw action for PBA club Star Hotshots in 2017, played for the Atlanta Hawks and Chicago Bulls for the past two seasons.

The Magic will tangle with No. 3 pick Scoot Henderson and the Portland Trail Blazers, No. 5 pick Ausar Thompson and the Detroit Pistons, All-Rookie Team member Bennedict Mathurin and the Indiana Pacers, and the New York Knicks.

Sotto will also get a chance to face his former Adelaide 36ers teammate Mojave King, who got drafted 47th overall by the Los Angeles Lakers before being traded to the Pacers.

All 30 NBA teams will play at least five games each, with the top four – to be determined by winning percentage – advancing to the semifinals.

The Summer League will wrap up with the championship game on July 17.

Here is the Magic Summer League roster:

• Kai Sotto
• Anthony Black
• Jett Howard
• DJ Wilson
• Robert Baker II
• Caleb Houston
• Kevon Harris
• Malcolm Hill
• Elijah Hughes
• Tyger Campbell
• JC Butler
• Amauri Hardy
• Au’Diese Toney
• Tyler Hall
• Quinndary Weatherspoon
• Drake Jeffries
• Dexter Dennis
• Montez Mathis
• Jamal Bey
• Elyjah Williams
• Malik Ellison
• Davion Warren

Here is the Magic Summer League schedule (Manila time):

• 5:30 am, July 9 vs Detroit Pistons
• 8:30 am, July 11 vs Indiana Pacers
• 8 am, July 13 vs New York Knicks
• 9 am, July 14 vs Portland Trail Blazers
• Fifth game (to be determined)

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Orlando Magic Best of the Decade: All-2000s Team

ORLANDO, FL - MAY 16: (L-R) Jameer Nelson #14, J.J. Redick #7, Rashard Lewis #9, Vince Carter #15 and Dwight Howard #12 of the Orlando Magic huddle up against the Boston Celtics in Game One of the Eastern Conference Finals during the 2010 NBA Playoffs at Amway Arena on May 16, 2010 in Orlando, Florida. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and/or using this Photograph, user is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. (Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images) /

The Orlando Magic had a star-studded cast during the 2000s era of their franchise history. There was not a lot of playoff success — at least not until the end of the decade. But the Magic had two superstar players and used a few big Lottery picks to develop a team around them and return to the championship stage.

We saw this in the Dwight Howard rebuild in the middle of the decade when he was selected in 2004.

The teams at the beginning of the 2000s had potential, but injuries and perhaps Doc Rivers hurt their chances to be successful. The rebuild that started after the Tracy McGrady trade brought a new era for Orlando which was filled with excitement.

Still, it was a mixed bag for the decade. The Magic made the playoffs six of the 10 years of the early aughts but did not get out of the first round until the 2008 season, the first playoff series win for the Magic since the 1996 season.

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From Woodstock to YouTube: Santana's 'Black Magic Woman' Still Shines