[Wojnarowski] Free agent F/C Moe Wagner is returning to the Orlando Magic on a two-year, $22 million deal, sources tell ESPN. Wagner averaged 10.8 points and 4.3 rebounds in 80 games for the Eastern Conference’s fifth seed.
Free agent F/C Moe Wagner is returning to the Orlando Magic on a two-year, $22 million deal, sources tell ESPN. Wagner averaged 10.8 points and 4.3 rebounds in 80 games for the Eastern Conference’s fifth seed. pic.twitter.com/ZZTIHbzaB3
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) July 2, 2024
by solo118
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poof, another one bites the dust.
Would’ve been nice but he was always out of our price range and I never saw him leaving Orlando anyway
East is solid. Knicks better!
I think we Sims can fit in as the back up, we gotta trust the jump will be there. He’s come up in Thibs system and sometimes shows flashes.
backup center-gate is going to kill me
I never considered he’d leave his brother to play elsewhere
Never considered him a realistic option. Orlando didn’t decline the $8M option just to let him walk, not to mention he doesn’t offer what the Knicks look for in their big men in recent years
Do we really need to post every single center signing this entire offseason
Yeah obviously
Kessler. Get Kessler. Toward the end he wasn’t even starting (on my fantasy team).
Kessler would be a very low floor to play when Mitch breaks.
He would have been a better fit in OKC, Presti fucked up.
Every time I see one of these posts my first assumption is WE signed someone.
These have been the darkest two days in Knicks back up center history
Yup. We’re going into the season with a Mitch, Jericho and Ari rotation
My reaction coming to the post as a magic fan
(But don’t hate me, I low-key I really like your squad lol)
Hear me out… DeMarcus Cousins on a G League deal. Or Noah Vonleh on the same deal.
On a serious note, has anyone checked in with Kurt Thomas, Herb Williams, or KOQ?
He wasn’t a rim defender anyways so doubt the knicks had much serious interest in him
ok this one hurts a little
One of the worst rim protecting bigs in the league.
Not hating on you op but watching a post about every FA center was not in my bingo card lol
Fuck it, let’s call up Quincy Acy
extremely not surprising. not wiseman bad, but still not my favorite option.
Just resign precious, run mitch and precious and sims until we can find a better option
Did anyone actually think we’d get him for the 5million MLE?
I find it funny how small ball and the emergence of stretch 4s and 5s essentially killed off traditional centers. But here we are this year where centers going like hot cakes. Obviously it’s magnified by our glaring need for a backup center.
I hope Goga enjoys his career as a 4th string center. Too bad. It’s not his ability that’s holding him back. It’s obviously his drive. He’d rather take a little more short term money rather than put himself in a spot where he could thrive and earn a huge bag in 2 years like IHart did. I guess that just shows why he wouldn’t have worked out with the Knicks anyway. He likely doesn’t have the heart. Maybe he got bad advice or was deceived, but it seemed pretty obvious that there was no path to success for him at Orlando other than multiple, catastrophic injuries, so my guess is that he just doesn’t have the competitive drive to be a regular NBA rotation player.
Still a lot of time. Still a lot of trade options. We know Leon will do the due diligence and leave no stone unturned. We can’t make a dumb panic move. I’d rather have a stopgap backup rather than get stuck with the wrong guy, hardcapped, and unable to do anything about it.