The top 10 individual Orlando Magic season performances

Shaquille O'Neal stands tall over every figure in Orlando Magic history. (Photo credit should read TONY RANZE/AFP via Getty Images)
Shaquille O'Neal stands tall over every figure in Orlando Magic history. (Photo credit should read TONY RANZE/AFP via Getty Images)
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Tracy McGrady, Orlando Magic
Tracy McGrady is likely the best individual scorer in Orlando Magic history. He easily could have had four of the best seasons in team history. (Photo by TONY RANZE/AFP via Getty Images)

4.  2003 Tracy McGrady

Per Game Table
Season Age G MP FG% 3P% eFG% FT% TRB AST STL PTS
2002-03 23 75 39.4 .457 .386 .505 .793 6.5 5.5 1.7 32.1

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Generated 6/23/2020.

Tracy McGrady is possibly the greatest scorer in Orlando Magic history. In four seasons, he finished second in team history in scoring (even ahead of Shaquille O’Neal). He is now fourth all-time in scoring. And McGrady is first in points per game, averaging 28.1 points per game for his Magic career.

The 2003 season was special. He led the league in scoring at 32.1 points per game and was arguably the MVP that season. Only Tracy McGrady and Shaquille O’Neal have won the scoring title in a Magic uniform. And only McGrady has done it twice — O’Neal famously came up short on the final day of the 1994 season.

The 2003 season featured some of the very best games of McGrady’s career.

On Christmas Day, McGrady scored 46 points with 18 free throws on 14-for-26 shooting to defeat the Detroit Pistons. It is one of the best individual performances on national TV in Magic history. McGrady always rose to the big stage.

In February, McGrady scores 52 points in three quarters at home in a show of dominance against the Chicago Bulls.

Orlando finished 42-40 this year, enough to claim the eighth seed only to exit in a hard-fought seven-game series in the first round. McGrady had four fantastic seasons in Orlando