Quentin Richardson News

Quentin Richardson logged 866 minutes for the Orlando Magic in the 2011/12 season--more than 14 hours' worth--but I defy you to name a single play he made, good or bad, during that span.

For a recap of the Orlando Magic's loss to the Indiana Pacers in Game Five of their playoff series, please click here .

The Orlando Magic have completed one of the most bizarre seasons in franchise history, a season that essentially began with the sudden "retirement" of CEO Bob Vander Weide and ended Tuesday night with a 105-87 loss to the Indiana Pacers in Game 5 of the teams' first-round playoff series .

Darren Collison scored 15 of his 19 points in the fourth quarter Tuesday and the Indiana Pacers pulled away for a 105-87 victory over the Orlando Magic to advance past the first round of the playoffs for the first time since 2005.

The Orlando Magic should re-sign swingman Tracy McGrady once free agency begins in July, writes David Aldridge of NBA.com in his weekly Morning Tip column.

Ryan Anderson has professed his love for the Orlando Magic, and General Manager Otis Smith all but said the team will spend whatever it takes to keep Anderson this offseason.

"It's a huge hole with him not in the game," Granger continued. "I don't know if we'd be up 3-1, maybe it'd be 2-2 or what not." There's a world of difference between being up, 3-1, as the Pacers are, and being what knotted at 2-2 with the Magic.

Orlando Magic's Quentin Richardson, right, tries to get the ball away from Indiana Pacers' Danny Granger, left, during the first half of Game 3 of an NBA first-round playoff basketball series, Wednesday, May 2, 2012, in Orlando, Fla.

To a man, Orlando Magic players said they believed the Indiana Pacers played with more desperation in Game 2, which the Pacers won 93-78. In that period, the Pacers grabbed 15 of the first 16 rebounds and compiled 13 second-chance points to the Magic's two.

A The Orlando Magic scored the last 11 points in game one of the first round playoff series against the Indiana Pacers to erase a seven-point lead and take game one, 81-77. Jameer Nelson had 17 points and nine rebounds to lead the Magic while David West had 19 points for the Pacers.