Aaron Gordon’s contract and how LeBron James may have saved the Magic money

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Now that summer league is over, the free agency frenzy has died down, and the Isaiah Thomas Twitter follows and Instagram likes no longer mean anything, let’s take a look into the contract that Aaron Gordon signed with the Magic on July 1. LeBron James had hit game-winning buzzer beaters against the Magic. He had helped the Cavs build what had been a nearly 20-game winning streak against Orlando. He has long ruled an Eastern Conference that, for more than a half decade, the Magic have been irrelevant in. But on July 1, LeBron may have actually done the Magic a favor. That was the day the Orlando Magic were able to lock up Aaron Gordon for the next four years on a very team-friendly contract.

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