{"id":250921,"date":"2026-07-01T15:01:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/01\/magic-reunite-with-nikola-vucevic-after-years-apart\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T15:01:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:01:18","slug":"magic-reunite-with-nikola-vucevic-after-years-apart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/01\/magic-reunite-with-nikola-vucevic-after-years-apart\/","title":{"rendered":"Magic reunite with Nikola Vucevic after years apart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nba\/players\/nikola_vucevic\/192571\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nikola Vucevic\u00a0<\/a>spent nine of his first 10<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nba\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0NBA<\/a> seasons with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nba\/teams\/orlando_magic\/122\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Orlando Magic<\/a>, becoming a franchise icon in that span.<\/p>\n<p>Vucevic was ultimately traded away from the franchise during the 2020-21 season and has spent the past five seasons with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nba\/teams\/chicago_bulls\/68\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chicago Bulls<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nba\/teams\/boston_celtics\/63\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Boston Celtics<\/a>. Now, in what will be his 16th season, Vucevic is reportedly returning home.<\/p>\n<h2>Nikola Vucevic is returning to Orlando<\/h2>\n<p>According to NBA insider Shams Charania, Vucevic and the Magic agreed on a one-year contract for the veteran to return to the place where he built a name for himself.<\/p>\n<p>According to Charania, Vucevic had more lucrative offers from other teams but chose to return to Orlando.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n    !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n    {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n    n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n    if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n    n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n    t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n    fbq('init', '1324276914788316');\n    fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nba\/articles\/magic_reunite_with_nikola_vucevic_after_years_apart\/s1_13132_44015488\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nikola Vucevic\u00a0spent nine of his first 10\u00a0NBA seasons with the Orlando Magic, becoming a franchise icon in that span. Vucevic was ultimately traded away from the franchise during the 2020-21 season and has spent the past five seasons with the Chicago Bulls and Boston Celtics. Now, in what will be his 16th season, Vucevic is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":250922,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6806],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-250921","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gossip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}