NBA trade deadline on deck for dejected Magic, who return home for key stretch • Celtics trade Edgewater alum Anfernee Simons to Bulls for former Magic center Vucevic
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Sign up | | Magic trade Tyus Jones to Charlotte | Knights can’t keep up at No. 8 Houston | National Signing Day wrap-up | Preece wins weather-disrupted Clash | | | | By trading Tyus Jones, the Magic successfully get below the NBA tax luxury threshold. The league’s trade deadline is 3 p.m. Thursday. | | | | | The Magic dropped their fifth game of the season when allowing 128-plus points Tuesday night at Oklahoma City. Orlando enters the deadline with a 25-24 record. | | | | | Simons was the Class 7A player of the year in 2017 as a senior for Edgewater High School. | | | | | The Knights fell to 2-3 this season against ranked teams and 4-5 in Quad 1 games as they look to shore up their NCAA Tournament resume. | | | | | Florida coach Jon Sumrall is embracing change, not fighting it, as the Gators feature 30 transfers, 20 high school signees and 62 returners. | | | | | The Knights sign a pair of three-star prospects in DT Isaiah McNish and receiver Jordan Nunuha, who is the latest player from Hawaii to land at UCF. | | | | | Jones High had 14 more players sign to play college football on Wednesday, National Signing Day | | | | | Winter Park safety E'Shawn Sutton signed of Central Michigan on Wednesday after his scholarship was pulled by Syracuse back in November | | | | | Boys basketball district tourney favorites include Lake Highland, Oak Ridge, Olympia, Evans, Osceola, Lake Mary, Winter Park, CFCA, Eustis, Bishop Moore, TFA, Mount Dora Christian. | | | | | Girls hoops district winners included Lake Mary, Edgewater, Hagerty, Colonial and Harmony while Lake Howell won a boys district semifinal. | | | | | The RFK Racing driver joins Jeff Gordon and Denny Hamlin as racers who won The Clash before ever winning a points-paying race. | | | | | Dolphins OC Bobby Slowik offered his take on QB Tua Tagovailoa's 2025 season with team. And Nathaniel Hackett lands as Cardinals OC as he won't coach Miami QBs. | | | | | New Miami Dolphins coordinators in Bobby Slowik Sean Duggan and Chris Tabor revealed some of their core principles, and coach Jeff Hafley touched on how he decided on those hires. | | | |
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