ORLANDO – The Orlando Magic’s NBA G League affiliate, the Lakeland Magic, will be under the direction of a couple of names quite familiar to basketball fans all throughout Central Florida.
Anthony Parker, a former Magic player and a scout for the organization for the past five seasons, has been named as Lakeland’s General Manager. Meanwhile, Stan Heath, the men’s basketball head coach at the University of South Florida from 2007-14, was named as Lakeland’s inaugural head coach.
The Magic purchased the Erie (Pa.) Bayhawks in December and announced plans to move the franchise to Lakeland and it will begin play there in November.