Magic pick up options on Oladipo, three others

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Orlando, FL (SportsNetwork.com) – The Orlando Magic announced Sunday that they have exercised their third-year option on the rookie contract of guard Victor Oladipo while picking up fourth-year options on forwards Maurice Harkless and Andrew Nicholson as well as guard Evan Fournier.

Oladipo, the second overall pick of the 2013 NBA Draft, is coming off a strong debut season in which the Indiana product finished second in voting for the league’s Rookie of the Year Award.

The athletic 22-year-old started 44 of his 80 games played and averaged 13.8 points, 4.1 assists, 4.1 rebounds and a team-best 1.61 steals.

Harkless has averaged 7.8 points, 3.8 rebounds and 1.2 steals over his first two NBA seasons and shot a strong 38.3 percent from 3-point range over 80 games (41 starts) in 2013-14. The 15th overall selection of the 2013 draft by Philadelphia, he was traded to the Magic by the 76ers as part of the multi- team Dwight Howard deal in June of 2012.

Fournier, acquired by the Magic from Denver over the summer, averaged 8.4 points, 2.7 rebounds and 1.5 steals in 76 games with the Nuggets last season. The 21-year-old Frenchman is a career 38.1 percent 3-point shooter through two NBA seasons.

Nicholson has averaged 6.8 points and 3.4 rebounds over two seasons in Orlando. The former Atlantic 10 Player of the Year was the Magic’s first-round choice (19th overall) in the 2012 draft.

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