Penny & Pops Podcast - Magicbasketballonline.com

The Magic won a riveting roller coaster of a Game 4 and are up 3-1 in their first round series. We head to Detroit for Wednesday’s Game 5. If you don’t know about the 2003 Pistons-Magic series, read up on it. Look up the box scores on Basketball Reference. I don’t want a single Magic fan thinking about the possibility of a second round for us until we lock up a fourth victory in this current series. If I see any posting online from a Magic fan - be it social media, Reddit, RealGM - I’m downvoting you and flagging it for spam. Some of the less experienced fans don’t know better, but us longer term fans do. The terrible part about the aftermath of 2003 wasn’t just it was the beginning of the end of Doc Rivers and then Tracy McGrady in Orlando. But that we had not won a playoff series since 1996, and we’d have to wait until 2008 against the Raptors to end that drought. We have not won a playoff series since 2010. This is the longest drought in franchise history. Focus on ending that drought now in 2026 and close