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Just because we are the magic doesn't mean Hennigan is actually a magician. He doesn't have a wand that can turn s*** into gold, or force superstar free agents to sign with us, and he also can't make ping pong balls land in our favor. His trades have really good. Remember afflalo for Fournier. Looks really good now. The Tobias trade basically got us bismack. I'm OK with that deal. Tobias was an OK player on a OK contract. Bismack is the defensive/hustle kind of player we've needed for a long time. The oladipo for ibaka trade I'm also OK with. And I loved oladipo. Still like what he brings to the game, but we had evan (who rob got for afflalo) and we got more for oladipo than we would've for evan. Sometimes you got to give something good to get something good. Hennigan got a young evan fournier, a relatively young serge ibacka, a young bismack biyombo, and an experienced Jeff green for a very soon to be heading over the hill arron afflalo, a role playing Tobias harris, and the number 2 pick in a bad draft. And maintained financial flexibility. We might have the 9th highest payroll this season, but we don't have much on the books for the years following. Meanwhile ep, ag and Nick continue to make strides. We might just become a team free agents want to sign with. Oh and we still have draft picks coming in with no picks outgoing. Not to mention keeping the salary cap near the floor so the magic could continue to pay Gilbert arenas salary...which is finally over with. Now he's truly got a clean slate. Why would his job be in jeopardy? We're only a few pieces away and we have the cap space to make the moves and we are way more attractive than we were when rob took over. The record may not be what we want it to be but this TEAM and the entire organization is in a much better position to be successful for the short and the long term because of rob hennigan.