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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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