The Magic are still looking. Or, perhaps, the better phrase is the Magic are still making a decision, for a new GM. Brian Serra of Magic Basketball Online reported Tuesday that the Magic were likely to name a GM by the end of the week.

It is not that players did not play hard. They did. And many did not play up to their potential. But the Orlando Magic could not match up against the really good teams in the league. And that made them inherently limited. It is not good to be limited by your roster and doomed before the season even starts.

As Stan Van Gundy said when he was asked about Anderson’s Most Improved Award, this was a strong measure of how a young player like Anderson improved. He was asked to take on a bigger role, and he succeeded in it.

As for the 2012 season, it was a forgettable one for Richardson. The only hope is that it seems like it can only get better.

The rebuilding has begun. Orlando is heading in a new direction. What that direction will be is hard to say. But the one thing that is clear is that the Magic are done with Stan Van Gundy and Otis Smith and everything they built the last five years.

The Orlando Magic have fired Stan Van Gundy and have agreed to part ways with president of basketball operations Otis Smith.

Glen Davis became an emotional leader for the Orlando Magic. It was Davis who coined the rallying cry, “We All We Got,” and energized his team with over-the-top efforts in the playoffs.

The public has not heard from Howard since TMZ cornered him coming out of rehab a little more than a week ago. There, Howard said he had been in contact with coach Stan Van Gundy and his teammates. Van Gundy confirmed that he had chatted with Howard via text before Game Two but said at exit interviews that he had not spoken to him since. Several players, including Jameer Nelson, said they had been in touch with Howard via the phone.

The Magic’s season is not a week over, and uncertainty regins at Amway Center an in the Magic offices. Really, uncertainty has reigned in the Orlando Magic front office since early December when Dwight Howard formally requested a trade and perhaps even before that when the franchise had no idea what Howard wanted or his position on his future with the team.