Leslie joins Magic TV crew
WASHINGTON — Viewers saw a new, but familiar, person on Fox Sports Florida’s last two Orlando Magic telecasts.
Former WNBA and Team USA superstar
has been hired as a pregame, halftime and postgame studio analyst for select Magic games.
Leslie will work tonight’s game between the Magic and Washington Wizards, a Fox Sports Florida spokesman said.
Leslie won four Olympic gold medals, two WNBA titles and three WNBA MVP awards during her playing career.
She began working as a commentator in 2004 for ESPN and also has done in-studio analysis for ABC, Fox Sports Net, NBA and Turner.
Leslie appeared during the pregame, halftime and postgame segments of Fox Sports Florida’s Magic telecasts of the Magic’s loss Tuesday to the Dallas Mavericks and the Magic’s loss Wednesday to the Milwaukee Bucks. per possession during third quarters.
In the third quarter Wednesday, the Magic were outscored by the Milwaukee Bucks 36-23.
Orlando has been outscored in the third quarters of seven of their eight games without Vucevic. The lone exception: the Magic’s Dec. 28 victory over the Detroit Pistons.
“Our starting group isn’t playing well,” coach
said. “So the start of the game and the start of the third quarter hasn’t been good.”
The Magic spent the night in Milwaukee following Wednesday’s defeat and flew to Washington on Thursday. The team didn’t practice because it was the day after a back-to-back.
The NBA released its second fan returns of AllStar Game voting on Thursday. Predictably, no Magic player appeared among the Eastern Conference’s top-10 frontcourt vote-getters or top-10 backcourt vote-getters.