Orlando Magic fire coach Frank Vogel

The Orlando Magic fired coach Frank Vogel on Thursday morning, a move that continues a trend of severe instability at the team’s head-coaching position.

Vogel compiled a 54-110 record during his two seasons as the Magic’s coach, including a 25-57 record during the team’s injury-ravaged 2017-18 season.

The Magic announced Vogel’s dismissal at 8:47 a.m., a few minutes after Magic President of Basketball Operations Jeff Weltman met with Vogel inside the team’s Amway Center offices.

“We would like to thank Frank for his contributions to the Orlando Magic,” Weltman said in a statement. “We appreciate the sacrifices he made as head coach and certainly wish him and his family well going forward.”

“It’s tough because you never want to see somebody get fired or somebody get cut or traded,” point guard D.J. Augustin said. “It’s a business. I’ve been with Frank for a while. I had him in Indiana. I had him here for two years. My wife is friends with his wife. So it sucks. But at the end of the day, we all know that this is a business … and anything can happen.”

The Magic hired Weltman and a new general manager, John Hammond, last May. Weltman and Hammond decided they would spend their first year on the job evaluating every aspect of the Magic’s basketball-operations department, including the coaching staff.

The Magic have had a revolving door at the head-coaching spot for several years. The franchise churned through four coaches over the last four full seasons: Jacque Vaughn, interim coach James Borrego, Scott Skiles and Vogel.

And now, the Magic almost certainly will face significant competition from other teams as Orlando attempts to fill its head-coaching job. Other teams are expected to make coaching changes, too. The New York Knicks, for example, fired Jeff Hornacek following the Knicks’ season finale.