This was the first season since 2018 that Steve Clifford did not coach the Magic, after agreeing to part ways on June 5.
[1] On July 11, 2021 Jamahl Mosley was hired as the new head coach.
In the 2021 NBA draft, the Magic selected Jalen Suggs from Gonzaga University with the fifth pick.
[3] The team also selected Franz Wagner from the University of Michigan with the eighth pick,[3] and Jason Preston from Ohio University with the thirty-third pick.
[4] The draft rights to Preston was later traded to the Los Angeles Clippers.