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      Ranking Magic's Top 10 Players of the 2010s


      Ranking Magic's Top 10 Players of the 2010s

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      1 / 10#10 Elfrid Payton The Magic’s all-time triple-doubles leader is Payton, who recorded eight of them while in Orlando. Two of them occurred in back-to-back games during his rookie season. The only other players to notch consecutive triple-doubles during their rookie campaigns are Oscar Robertson, Alvan Adams, Magic Johnson, David Robinson, Jason Kidd, Antoine Walker, Ben Simmons and Luka Doncic. Payton finished his Magic tenure with 1,805 assists, seventh most in franchise history.

      thumbnail-image: #10 Elfrid Payton The Magic’s all-time triple-doubles leader is Payton, who recorded eight of them while in Orlando. Two of them occurred in back-to-back games during his rookie season. The only other players to notch consecutive triple-doubles during their rookie campaigns are Oscar Robertson, Alvan Adams, Magic Johnson, David Robinson, Jason Kidd, Antoine Walker, Ben Simmons and Luka Doncic. Payton finished his Magic tenure with 1,805 assists, seventh most in franchise history.
      thumbnail-image: #9 Terrence Ross In 2018-19, Ross became the first player in NBA history to make 200 or more 3-pointers without starting in a single game. He drilled 217 of them to be exact, 10th most in the entire league that season. Something else he did a lot of throughout the year was draw fouls while in the act of taking threes. In fact, the 6-foot-6, 206-pounder was tied with Kemba Walker for second in this category, only behind James Harden. Ross, who re-signed with the Magic during the summer of 2019, finished fifth in Sixth Man of the Year voting.
      thumbnail-image: #8 Ryan Anderson There have been 34 Most Improved Player Award winners in NBA history and five of them played for the Magic when they claimed the honor. The only other team that has had this many MIP winners is the Indiana Pacers. The most recent Orlando player to capture the award was Anderson in 2011-12 when he averaged 16.1 points and shot nearly 44 percent from 3-point range. The other Magic MIP winners in club history were Scott Skiles, Darrell Armstrong, Tracy McGrady and Hedo Turkoglu.
      thumbnail-image: #7 Tobias Harris Harris spent portions of four seasons with the Magic, averaging 15.6 points, 7.0 rebounds and 1.8 assists in that time. His most memorable moment in Orlando came in early 2014 against OKC when he beat the buzzer with a game-winning dunk. In a game against the Lakers a couple weeks earlier, the 6-foot-8 forward posted 28 points and 20 rebounds to join Shaquille O’Neal, Dwight Howard, Horace Grant and Nikola Vucevic as the only players in Magic history with at least one 20-20 game.
      thumbnail-image: #6 Victor Oladipo Oladipo played three seasons with the Magic, the team that drafted him No. 2 overall in 2013. He averaged 15.9 points, 4.4 rebounds and 4.0 assists in that period before he was dealt to OKC in 2016. The 6-foot-4, 210-pounder’s best performance in Orlando came on March 18 of his final season with the team when he erupted for 45 points against LeBron James and the Cavs. He also had two triple-doubles with the Magic, including one on Dec. 3, 2013 against the 76ers when Michael Carter-Williams, then on Philly, recorded one as well.
      thumbnail-image: #5 Evan Fournier The best trade the Magic made throughout the decade may have been the one that delivered them Fournier, who is currently in the middle of having the best season of his career. On draft night in 2014, Orlando acquired the 6-foot-7 Frenchman from Denver in exchange for Arron Afflalo, whose best years were behind him. Fournier averaged nearly 16 points per game while making 37.4 percent of his 3-pointers this decade with the Magic. He was the team’s most clutch player throughout the 2010s, too, drilling three game-winning shots.
      thumbnail-image: #4 Jameer Nelson Nelson, the Magic’s all-time leader in assists with 3.501 of them, played 10 seasons with the Magic, tied with Nick Anderson for the most in club history. A few of the 6-foot point guard’s most memorable moments in a Magic uniform came early in the decade. His back-to-back 3-pointers in overtime of Game 4 of the 2010 Eastern Conference Finals against Boston helped Orlando avoid a sweep. He also drilled a game-winning triple at the buzzer in a 2011 game against Denver.
      thumbnail-image: #3 Aaron Gordon In 2017-18, Gordon became the first Magic player since Dwight Howard in 2010-11 to score 40 points or more multiple times in the same season. He also joined Howard, Shaquille O’Neal and Tracy McGrady as the only players in franchise history with multiple games of at least 40 points and 10 rebounds in the same year. The 6-foot-9, 220-pound forward’s most memorable moment of the decade, though, came in Toronto during NBA All-Star Weekend in 2016 when he showed off his hops in one of the most electrifying dunk contests in league history.
      thumbnail-image: #2 Dwight Howard Howard’s prime came at the very beginning of the decade and prior to the 2012 trade that sent him to the Lakers. He finished second to Derrick Rose in MVP voting in 2010-11, a season in which he averaged a career-high 22.9 points per game. That year was also the third consecutive season he was named the league’s Defensive Player of the Year. The 6-foot-10 big man is one of only three players in NBA history to capture that award at least three times and the only one to win it three years in a row.
      thumbnail-image: #1 Nikola Vucevic Vucevic, acquired by the Magic in the blockbuster four-team 2012 trade that involved Dwight Howard, currently ranks No. 3 in team history in points, No. 2 in rebounds, No. 4 in blocks and No. 9 in assists. The 7-foot, 260-pounder, presently the club’s longest-tenured player, set the franchise record for most rebounds in a single game with 29 of them against the Heat on Dec. 31, 2012.
      Lightbox-image: #10 Elfrid Payton The Magic’s all-time triple-doubles leader is Payton, who recorded eight of them while in Orlando. Two of them occurred in back-t...
      Lightbox-image: #9 Terrence Ross In 2018-19, Ross became the first player in NBA history to make 200 or more 3-pointers without starting in a single game. He drill...
      Lightbox-image: #8 Ryan Anderson There have been 34 Most Improved Player Award winners in NBA history and five of them played for the Magic when they claimed the h...
      Lightbox-image: #7 Tobias Harris Harris spent portions of four seasons with the Magic, averaging 15.6 points, 7.0 rebounds and 1.8 assists in that time. His most m...
      Lightbox-image: #6 Victor Oladipo Oladipo played three seasons with the Magic, the team that drafted him No. 2 overall in 2013. He averaged 15.9 points, 4.4 reboun...
      Lightbox-image: #5 Evan Fournier The best trade the Magic made throughout the decade may have been the one that delivered them Fournier, who is currently in the mi...
      Lightbox-image: #4 Jameer Nelson Nelson, the Magic’s all-time leader in assists with 3.501 of them, played 10 seasons with the Magic, tied with Nick Anderson for t...
      Lightbox-image: #3 Aaron Gordon In 2017-18, Gordon became the first Magic player since Dwight Howard in 2010-11 to score 40 points or more multiple times in the sa...
      Lightbox-image: #2 Dwight Howard Howard’s prime came at the very beginning of the decade and prior to the 2012 trade that sent him to the Lakers. He finished secon...
      Lightbox-image: #1 Nikola Vucevic Vucevic, acquired by the Magic in the blockbuster four-team 2012 trade that involved Dwight Howard, currently ranks No. 3 in team...

      1 / 10#10 Elfrid Payton The Magic’s all-time triple-doubles leader is Payton, who recorded eight of them while in Orlando. Two of them occurred in back-to-back games during his rookie season. The only other players to notch consecutive triple-doubles during their rookie campaigns are Oscar Robertson, Alvan Adams, Magic Johnson, David Robinson, Jason Kidd, Antoine Walker, Ben Simmons and Luka Doncic. Payton finished his Magic tenure with 1,805 assists, seventh most in franchise history.

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