Jumaine Jones headed to Orlando

Jumaine Jones signed contract with Orlando Magic! After playing in Los Angeles last year, Jones was a free-agent and free to sign with any team. In LA the small forward registered 7.6 ppg, 4.3 rpg and .391 from downtown! He's in his 7th year pro but never stept up as a starter! His long range shooting ability could be useful to Magic, but with Grant Hill, Quentin Richardson... and Turkoglu battling for the SF spot... it will be very hard to get many minutes!

Bruno Maciel was very clearly about his role: « Jumaine Jones is great 3 pt shooter, and has some quality defensive skills, but was not our priority! Yesterday we brought Quentin Richardson... and that was just enough, now we have plenty of SF's!!! Maybe we can put him in the next trade package! To be honest we were expecting to sign with Brevin Knight, we are in need of point guards, so that's the direction (...) we'll start dealing now to find a good PG that fits in our squad!».

As we could see the Magic's GM was not very happy with his board's decision. Obviously, with the Richardson's arrival, Jones is not necessary... and all he wanted was Knight! Rumours says Steve Francis is about to leave Orlando... is that true? Wait and see what is about to happen...