Magic hope Skiles as coach will end playoff drought

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Scott Skiles was named coach of the Orlando Magic on Friday, the 13-season NBA coach tasked with ending the club's three-year run of failing to reach the playoffs. Skiles, whose first season as a coach was for Greek side Thessaloniki in 1996-97, takes the job from which Jacque Vaughn was fired last February, one taken on an interim basis by James Borrego. The Magic went 25-57 this past season, only a slight improvement on 23-59 the season before and 20-62 in 2012-13, but not nearly enough to satisfy fans of a team that reached the NBA Finals in 2009, losing to the Los Angeles Lakers, and 1995, losing to Houston.

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