Frank Vogel
is fired as Orlando Magic coach Thursday after the team, plagued by injuries, closed a disappointing 25-57 season by beating the Wizards. Vogel coached the Magic for two years.
The Orlando Magic are looking for a new coach. Again. The team fired Frank Vogel on Thursday, a move that continues a trend of severe instability at the team’s head-coaching position.
Magic President of Basketball Operations Jeff Weltman informed Vogel of the move around 8:35 a.m.,
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less than 10 hours after the team completed its injury-ravaged season with a 25-57 record.
Weltman would not detail the reasons for the dismissal — most likely out of respect for Vogel. Vogel had been a good company man throughout his two-year tenure, never blaming anyone publicly for his 54-110 record with the Magic.
“I won’t drill too deeply into specifics,” Weltman said. “It was a season-long evaluation process.”
Last May, the Magic hired Weltman and a new general manager, John Hammond. Weltman and Hammond decided they would spend their first year on the job evaluating every aspect of the Magic’s basketball-operations department, including the coaching staff.
In addition to firing Vogel, the Magic also dismissed lead assistant coach Chad Forcier and assistant coaches Corliss Williamson and Jay Hernandez.
“It’s tough because you never want to see somebody get fired or somebody get cut or traded,” point