The NBA dropped its schedule earlier this week, and buried in the long list of 1,230 regular-season games was a juicy nugget that should make every Orlando Magic fan sit up and start sharpening their social media barbs:

The Magic will open the 2025-26 NBA season against the Miami Heat.

Yes, you read that correctly.

The basketball gods have handed us an opportunity — a chance to stir up a rivalry that has been sitting cold and coagulating on the back burner for far too long. It’s time to put it back on the front burner and turn up the heat (pun very much intended). It’s time to bring back the good ol’ days when Orlando and Miami were at each other’s throats in a battle of civic pride, cultural shade and basketball bragging rights.

But here’s the problem: Many of today’s fans, espe

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