The Magic could insert Brandon Bass into the starting lineup with Rashard Lewis serving a ten-game suspension to start the season.

Even before the All-Star forward's suspension for violating the league's anti-drug policy, Orlando coach Stan Van Gundy hinted that he could put Bass in the starting lineup as a power forward while shifting Lewis to small forward.

Now, it's almost certain that the Magic will start Bass at power forward and slip either Mickael Pietrus or Matt Barnes into the lineup in place of Lewis.

"You're going to start now for sure two new people and maybe as many as three for the first 10 games of the year," Van Gundy told the Orlando Sentinel. "Like with anything bad that happens, and this is certainly something we didn't want to happen, there's always a silver lining. And the silver lining here will be that a lot of those new faces, pretty much all of them, will get a significant opportunity early in the year. I think right off the bat we'll get a better indication of where we want to go in terms of lineups and rotations when Rashard gets back."