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Season snapshot
Middle tier regular season results · middle tier results younger coreORL finished 45-37 (0.549) with 7 playoff game(s). Its governed core had 10 players and a rotation-weighted age of 24.8. The team had 4 critical/structural basketball problem(s), 1 future pick-control row(s), and 40.0% future core salary schedule coverage. This describes the planning position; it does not recommend a direction.
Record
45-37
Playoff games
7
Playoff wins
3
Core age
24.8
Primary creator
Paolo Banchero
Current decision lanes
Transactions, injuries, rumors and staff changes are separate evidence lanes — never merged.9transactions1injuries0rumors2staff changes
TransactionJett Howardfree agent exitJul 20, 2026Completed
Departure side derived only from the named completed/reported destination move; evidence status is preserved. Signed from Orlando to a two-way slot. Reconciled from a dated index row carrying a cited transaction source. | Exact event and roster-action lineage promoted by nba_live_gap_closure_program_v1_20260825.
TransactionColin Castletontwo way signingJul 1, 2026Completed
Re-signed to a two-way slot. Reconciled from a dated index row carrying a cited transaction source. | Exact event and roster-action lineage promoted by nba_live_gap_closure_program_v1_20260825.
Transaction
Injuries & availability
Governed medical episodes — evidence about players, separate from team decisions.| Player | Injury | Body part | Out | Returned | Severity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tristan da Silva | right shoulder contusion | shoulder | Dec 17, 2025 → Dec 22, 2025 | not recorded | — |
| Colin Castleton | left thumb fracture | thumb | Dec 9, 2025 → Dec 13, 2025 | not recorded | — |
| Jonathan Isaac | left hip contusion | hip | Nov 25, 2025 → Dec 20, 2025 |
Last observed season rotation
Players with actual NBA minutes for the latest eligible season; not a complete current registration ledger.| Player | Role | Strongest functions | Minutes | On/Off | Stab. RAPM | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Desmond Bane | — | — | 3,045 | — | — | metrics unavailable |
 Paolo Banchero | — | — | 2,807 | — | — |
On/Off and stabilized RAPM are separate impact lanes on a per-100 scale — never combined into one grade. A dash means evidence is unavailable, not zero.
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Basketball functions
Eleven separate function readings — need, coverage and redundancy stay apart; no team score.CreationStructural roster need
Functional Shortage · led by Paolo Banchero, then Desmond Bane
Full reading
ORL 2025-26 Creation: production percentile 25.0; largest contributor Paolo Banchero (31.4% of above-replacement production); structural_shortage.
Defensive event creationMonitor Not Priority
Middle Tier Distributed · led by Jalen Suggs, then Anthony Black
Full reading
ORL 2025-26 Defensive event creation: production percentile 54.2; largest contributor Jalen Suggs (28.4% of above-replacement production); monitor_not_priority.
Shot creation
Team performance and shot-creation architecture.ORL ranked 9 of 30 in self-created shot share (49.6%), 27 of 30 in self-created eFG, and 18 of 30 in assisted eFG. Primary creator: Paolo Banchero. Team-level creator attribution: 95.9%. Creation profile: self creation heavy; dependency: distributed creation; shotmaking: mixed shotmaking.
Self-created FGA share
49.5%
Self-created eFG
47.8%
Assisted eFG
58.2%
Paolo Banchero share
23.0%
Contracts & cap
Selected player charges under the serving definition — not full cap legality.SupportedTax Team Below First Apron Threshold
Selected player charges
$189.3M
Share of cap
122%
Tax line
$1.37M over
First apron
$6.68M under
Second apron
$18.6M under
ORL 2025-26 carried $189,266,627 of selected player charges (122.4% of the cap), placing it in tax to first apron on selected player charges. Its highest contracted function cost was interior_finish at 23.5% of the cap; highest measured need was rebounding. Exact exception and transaction legality is withheld without team cap-hold and exception-use ledgers.
Future core salary schedule
Upcoming decisions
Governed contract events ahead — dates carry their honest quality.Goga Bitadzecontract control horizonJun 30, 2027
Goga Bitadze has a reported contract-control horizon through the 2027 season. The June 30 date is a season-boundary planning proxy, not proof of exact free-agency status. The player is inside the two-season extension-review horizon, but exact eligibility and value are not certified.
Anthony Blackcontract control horizonJun 30, 2027
Anthony Black has a reported contract-control horizon through the 2027 season. The June 30 date is a season-boundary planning proxy, not proof of exact free-agency status. The player is inside the two-season extension-review horizon, but exact eligibility and value are not certified.
Jett Howardcontract control horizonJun 30, 2027
Jett Howard has a reported contract-control horizon through the 2027 season. The June 30 date is a season-boundary planning proxy, not proof of exact free-agency status. The player is inside the two-season extension-review horizon, but exact eligibility and value are not certified.
Tristan da Silvacontract control horizonJun 30, 2028
Tristan da Silva has a reported contract-control horizon through the 2028 season. The June 30 date is a season-boundary planning proxy, not proof of exact free-agency status. The player is inside the two-season extension-review horizon, but exact eligibility and value are not certified.
Future assets
Draft-control coverage: provisional future pick control tradability unresolved. Partial coverage renders as partial — never as a zero-asset team.2030 round 2Tradability not confirmed
ORL has a provisional-control row for the 2030 2-round pick as of 2026-06-30. Tradability is not confirmed.
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Organization
Basketball authority and staff context — descriptive, never a grade.No governed authority-regime rows are knowable for this team at this as-of moment.
CoverageResolved
withheld: falseresolved team: true
Supporting relations (7)
- gb_state.frontend_team_season_overview_v
- gb_state.team_functional_coverage_v
- gb_state.frontend_team_roster_card_v
- gb_state.team_asset_control_timeline_v
- gb_state.team_roster_decision_calendar_event_v
- gb_organization.role_tenure_assertion
- gb_state.nba_team_decision_feed_at
