Jerry Brewer of the Orlando Sentinel reports: The Orlando Magic, desperate for active bodies in the post, have turned to 21-year-old Nigerian center Olunide Oyedeji. In what could be their final move to add new players during this free agency, the team signed Oyedeji (his name is pronounced oh-LOOM-uh-day oi-yah-DAY-gee) on Sunday. His deal is believed to be for one year and worth the league minimum for a player with 2 years of service which is $587,435.

Oyedeji played in only 66 games the past two seasons with Seattle. In 36 appearances last season, he averaged 1.5 points, 2.2 rebounds and 6.1 minutes.

Also, there was some confusion over whether Oyedeji was a restricted free agent or but the magic confirmed that he was unrestricted because Seattle did not make him a qualifying offer.

In other magic news, Magic GM John Gabriel said that Patrick Ewing is leaning towards ending his 17-year career and that he has had discussions with Ewing's agent, David Falk, about a buyout of the final year of his contract in which he will make about $2.3 million. (Note: If Ewing was bought out, the amount of the buyout would count against the cap for the coming season and if the buyout is for less than the $2.3 million figure, it would give Orlando a little more wiggle room between their current 2002/2003 payroll figure of $48,373,650 million (assuming first round pick Ryan Himphrey gets 120 percent of his rookie scale salary) and the league-projected 2003 luxury tax figure of $50 million (RealGM thinks $53-55 million).

Finally, The Magic are inching closer to an agreement with Garrity, according to sources on both sides of the negotiations. A deal could be reached within the next few days. There was no mention in the article about the terms but it's believed that Orlando is offering Garrity a multi-year deal at around $2 million a season.

If so, the Magic would then turn their attention to re-signing Williams and signing rookie forward Ryan Humphrey.

Note: There was no mention of guard William "Smush" Parker who has been a standout on Orlando's summer league team and this along with the fact that Orlando has close to a full roster could mean that "Smush" could be in another team's training camp this fall. Stay tuned to our RealGM's Orlando Magic Affiliate, MagicPride (a.k.a. magic.realgm.com) for more developments on this story.