Orlando Magic: On this date in Magic history we acquired Rashard Lewis from the Seattle SuperSonics! What’s your favorite Rashard memory? Stan Van Gundy: An All-Star who always put the team before himself. Totally selfless teammate. Impossible to find a teammate or a coach who didn’t love him. I was honored to have the opportunity to work with him.
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Rashard Lewis
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Born: 08/08/79
Height: 6-10 / 2.08
Weight:214 lbs. / 97.5 kg.
Earnings: $155,332,815 ($190,774,809*)
Born: 08/08/79
Height: 6-10 / 2.08
Weight:214 lbs. / 97.5 kg.
Earnings: $155,332,815 ($190,774,809*)
Chris Bosh: Every day, I was inspired by Bron and D-Wade to push myself harder and reach higher. Not a practice went by during our four years playing together where they didn’t encourage me to leave everything on the floor; and I’d like to think I did the same for them. So, when Lebron told me he’d reinvented his post game in the first few weeks of the 2012 offseason, I knew I had to step it up. And I did. Quickly, our team’s mantra became “Repeat.” And with new additions to our team, like Ray Allen and Rashard Lewis, we were confident we would do it, as long as we kept the intensity at level ten.
Chase Hughes: Former Wizards player Rashard Lewis is here at Capital One Arena for Wizards-Nets. He came here in the 2010 trade that sent Gilbert Arenas to Orlando.
The 2008-09 Magic lost in the finals, but despite that defeat, they rank as one of the most innovative teams in recent league history because of the way they played, how coach Stan Van Gundy deployed players and how GM Otis Smith built the roster. These days, basketball coaches, executives and fans consider the 3-point shot and stretch power forwards as necessary components to successful teams. But 11 seasons ago, heavy reliance on long-range shooting still was gaining acceptance. That Magic team helped transform conventional wisdom because it proved, for the first time, that a team could rely on the 3-pointer heavily, downsize its lineup for a full 48 minutes and win a conference title at the same time. “A lot of teams are playing small ball and spread the floor, a lot of big men in pick-and-roll, pop-and-shoot,” Lewis says now. “We were one of the trendsetters of it.”
Josh Robbins: J.J. Redick has passed Rashard Lewis for 17th on the career 3-pointers list with 1,788.
Harrison Wind: Kenyon Martin says he’s not playing in the BIG3 this summer but will still be a part of it because he doesn’t want to risk injury/rehab: “Rashard Lewis ruptured his Achilles last year. Mike James fractured his kneecap. I’m like f— that…I’m not trying to rehab.” pic.twitter.com/sUJS2NcyoU
John Denton: Former @Orlando Magic F Rashard Lewis on seeing ’09 East Con championship banner: “It gave me chills. I was just reminiscing about playing here. Making that run to The Finals was an unbelievable time in my career & it’s something that will stick with me for the rest of my life.”
