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HOUSTON — Orlando Magic teammates and have Houston roots and share deep pride in how well the city has recovered from Hurricane Harvey, the vicious storm that inundated the city and surrounding areas with flood waters last August.
“It’s still devastating,” Simmons said. “I think a lot of people came together for the better of things. The city’s almost back to 100 percent.
“A couple friends of the family really had it bad. I had to end up giving one of my friends that’s the same size as me, I gave him basically my whole wardrobe: about 20 pairs of shoes that I just had and clothes and stuff because he lost everything. It was real bad and it’s still bad.
“There’s still some families that’s sleeping in tents. It’s crazy. But I think slowly the city is rebuilding and hopefully it gets back to regular soon.”
Simmons has his own harrowing hurricane story.
He and about 20 people — many of them children — waited out the storm in the Houston suburb of Richmond. The flooding around the house became so severe that everyone in it needed to be rescued.
a rap musician from Houston, had a boat and rescued the group and many others who were trapped.
The National Hurricane Center estimated that at least 68 people died from the direct effects of Hurricane Harvey in Texas and also estimated the storm produced between $90 billion and $160 billion in damage.
Augustin grew up in New Orleans and moved to Houston permanently after Hurricane Katrina ravaged Louisiana in 2005.
Iwundu and Simmons, on the other hand, were born in Houston.
Augustin, Iwundu and Simmons have followed the city’s ongoing recovery closely.
“It just shows how strong Houston is: everybody coming together, trying to help out each other,” Iwundu said. left hip flexor late in Saturday’s loss to the Indiana Pacers.
“I was trying to make a defensive stop sliding towards the baseline,” Gordon said. “I planted and got bumped at the same time. It was just awkward. I felt it pull. I’m glad it’s just a strain, nothing too severe. I felt it throughout the rest of the game, after the game and when I woke up. It feels better, but it’s still not quite there.” Magic coach
said it appears unlikely that Gordon will be able to play when the Magic host the Los Angeles Lakers tonight. Magic center
who fractured a bone in his left hand Dec. 23 and underwent surgery Dec. 26, continues to ramp up his individual on-court work.
Vogel said Vucevic is “close” to being cleared to participate in full-contact drills.
When Vucevic is cleared for full contact, he’ll begin by doing controlled full contact drills with assistant coaches
and Later, Vucevic will ramp up to full-contact practices with the team. So his return to games is not imminent.
The annual NBA Summer League in Las Vegas will be held this year July 6-17, league officials announced Tuesday.
All 30 teams, including the Magic, will participate.
This past fall, the Magic decided to end their annual summer league in Orlando. The Magic’s new leadership tandem of President of Basketball Operations
and General Manager thinks the conditions in Las Vegas — where teams sometimes play in front of sold-out gyms — give players better exposure and better prepares the players for regular-season games.
In addition, NBA officials wanted all 30 teams to participate in the Las Vegas league.
Still, the decision represented a radical departure for the Magic, who ran and managed their own summer league in Central Florida 14 times since 2002.
League games in Orlando were closed to the public.
In the Las Vegas league, all teams will play three preliminary games before they’re seeded in a tournament.
Each team will play at least five games and as many as eight games.