{"id":495534,"date":"2026-05-05T08:49:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T06:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=495534"},"modified":"2026-05-05T08:49:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T06:49:35","slug":"orlando-magic-president-jeff-weltman-does-not-want-to-dismantle-roster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/orlando-magic-president-jeff-weltman-does-not-want-to-dismantle-roster\/","title":{"rendered":"Orlando Magic president Jeff Weltman does not want to dismantle roster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1286\" data-end=\"1480\">The <strong data-start=\"1290\" data-end=\"1307\">Orlando Magic<\/strong> fired coach <strong data-start=\"1320\" data-end=\"1337\">Jamahl Mosley<\/strong> after their first-round playoff loss to the <strong data-start=\"1382\" data-end=\"1401\">Detroit Pistons<\/strong>, but president <strong data-start=\"1417\" data-end=\"1433\">Jeff Weltman<\/strong> said he does not want to dismantle the roster.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1482\" data-end=\"1679\">Weltman called the defeat a \u201cgut punch,\u201d especially after Orlando led the series 3-1 and collapsed in Game 6. Still, he pointed to <strong data-start=\"1613\" data-end=\"1629\">Franz Wagner<\/strong>\u2019s injury as a major turning point in the matchup.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1681\" data-end=\"1892\">\u201cI don&#8217;t want to tear this thing down and dismantle it because of the way it ended and certainly one half,\u201d Weltman said. Orlando will now look for a new voice on the bench while keeping faith in its young core.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Magic president explained the decision to fire Jamahl Mosley, while expressing confidence in Orlando\u2019s core despite the loss to Detroit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":393278,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-495534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/06\/Orlando-Magic.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495534"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=495534"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=495534"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=495534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}