The Magic haven't been getting smaller by choice, but so far it has worked out well.

Patrick Ewing went on the injured list Wednesday, leaving Coach Doc Rivers with little choice but to go with Horace Grant at center and Pat Garrity at power forward for now. The Magic are 2-0 with that lineup, having posted victories over division foes Boston and Philadelphia to run their winning streak to four games.

To this point, they have been able to outshoot their problems. In winning six of their last seven games, the Magic have made 41 percent of their three-point shots.

Their size disadvantage may catch up with them in upcoming games against Portland (tonight), New Jersey (Saturday) and Monday (Dallas). But Coach Doc Rivers is most concerned about what the injuries have done to his team's identity.

"It's been tough to get one," Rivers said. "Every time we get started, someone goes off (the roster). "But this is who we are for the rest of the season. We're trying to figure out what the right approach should be, the right way of going about this to fir this team."

The 6-foot-9, 238-pound Garrity feels a little being called a power forward. But he has taken down 14 rebounds in his two starts there.

Portland is a major hurdle for the Magic, who have not beaten the Blazers since 1998. Their biggest problem has been nobody to match up with 6-11 Rasheed Wallace, who has scored 96 points in his last three games against Orlando.

Ewing, who has tendinitis in the area between his right calf and Achilles' tendon, will miss at least four more games.

The Magic could activate rookie guard Jeryl Sasser or sign a veteran to a 10-day contract. Forward Cedric Ceballos and guards Matt Maloney and Eldridge Recasner are

among the possibilities.

DeVos Family WantsTo Sell Part of Magic ORLANDO -- Rich DeVos and his family, who have owned 100 percent of the Orlando Magic since 1991, informed the NBA on Thursday that they want to sell part of the team.

Team President Bob Vander Weide met in New York with National Basketball Association Commissioner David Stern. According to sources within the Magic and the NBA office in New York, the talks were mostly exploratory, centered around finding a partner to buy a minority stake in the team and one who might help DeVos fund a new arena for the Magic.

For the near future, the DeVos family plans to retain controlling interest in the franchise, and it will remain in Orlando.

While Vander Weide talked with Stern, the rest of the Magic's management staff met with John Weisbrod, chief operating officer, who assured them that very little within the day-to-day operations of the team would be changing.

"The trip to New York was a fact-finding trip that might be the beginning of a process, but the conclusion of nothing," Weisbrod said. "And we just wanted to keep our staff informed, put them at ease going into the weekend."

Neither Vander Weide nor DeVos was available for comment Thursday.


The Orlando Sentinel contributed to this report.