The franchises have until October 31 to activate (or not) the options on the rookie contracts of their players.
On the Orlando side, we have decided to exercise the options concerning Jalen Suggs, Cole Anthony, Chuma Okeke and Franz Wagner, who are now all linked to the Florida club until 2024.
As far as Cole Anthony and Chuma Okeke are concerned, this will be the last full year of their rookie contracts and, if they are not extended by then, they will then be “free agents” in the summer of 2024. For Jalen Suggs and Franz Wagner, the club still have an option to retain them beyond the summer of 2024, for the 2024/25 campaign.
But the most striking in the Magic announcementis that the club has chosen not to activate the option for the 2023/24 season of RJ Hampton, who will therefore be an unprotected “free agent” at the end of this campaign.
This option amounted to 4.2 million dollars for the 24th choice of the 2020 Draft. By refusing it, Orlando offers itself a little more financial margin for next summer, and above all shows that the leaders do not count. really on the playmaker. Especially since his playing time has been further reduced since the start of the season.
| RJ Hampton | Percentage | Bounces | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | Crew | GM | Minimum | Shots | 3 points | LF | Off | Def | Early | pd | party | Int | bp | CT | Points |
| 2020-21 * | All Teams | 51 | 17 | 43.5 | 31.0 | 67.1 | 0.6 | 2.9 | 3.5 | 1.7 | 1.2 | 0.4 | 1.0 | 0.2 | 6.9 |
| 2020-21 * | ENT | 26 | 25 | 43.9 | 31.9 | 65.7 | 0.7 | 4.2 | 5.0 | 2.8 | 1.5 | 0.6 | 1.6 | 0.3 | 11.2 |
| 2020-21 * | DEN | 25 | 9 | 41.7 | 27.8 | 75.0 | 0.4 | 1.6 | 2.0 | 0.6 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 2.6 |
| 2021-22 | ENT | 64 | 22 | 38.3 | 35.0 | 64.1 | 0.4 | 2.7 | 3.0 | 2.5 | 1.6 | 0.7 | 1.4 | 0.2 | 7.6 |
| 2022-23 | ENT | 4 | 11 | 33.3 | 50.0 | 75.0 | 0.3 | 0.8 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 2.0 |
| Total | 119 | 20 | 40.3 | 33.8 | 65.5 | 0.5 | 2.7 | 3.2 | 2.1 | 1.4 | 0.6 | 1.2 | 0.2 | 7.2 | |
