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This Magic Moment , a 30 for 30 documentary eulogizing the mid-1990s Orlando Magic, airs tonight on ESPN. A lot of it will probably center around what might've been if Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls would've just let them be great. Somewhere in there, I pray that there's mention of the time that Magic small forward Dennis Scott had a vesuvian meltdown and mortified a camp full of bright-eyed kids a year after the core of that Magic team was parted for scrap following Shaquille O'Neal's signing with the Lakers. In the summer of 1997, Dennis Scott-- who'd been a dutiful role player alongside Horace Grant, Nick Anderson, and Brian Shaw during those three painfully brief years that Shaq and Penny Hardaway were together-- was locked in a dispute with the team over the $3 million he was due to make the following season. Scott was running his "3D" children's camp in Virginia at the time and was supposed to be coaching fundamentals and spouting glittering "Be All You Can Be" type stuff, but was too stressed ab

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