Sorry, Orlando Magic fans. The truth is that your team is simply the definition of mediocre. It's been that way for years, and it will likely continue to be that way. The fault for that does not lie with Tobias Forge and Ghost.
Also, here's a little note: Do your homework. Instead of espousing a silly view (and, hopefully, a specific one that was made in jest), use logic in your observation of your favorite basketball team. If a band that plays with religious ideology somehow affects the Magic simply by performing in the same arena, then the world is a different place than most know.
No hoodoo exists. No kind of sacramental juju. The Orlando Magic aren't good, and Ghost likely doesn't care one way or another.
Ghost accused of cursing the mediocre Orlando Magic
This all stems from a Reddit user commenting in the Magic's subreddit that the team had played exceedingly poorly two days after Ghost played at the Kia Center. The user might have been making a joke, but if they did, they did so very poorly that the pushback they got from fellow fans of the team and the band was great.
The user in a since-deleted post wrote, "So I work at Kia. The night before we got blown out by Charlotte, there was a concert there by this rock band called Ghost & I'm not even exaggerating super satanic vibes. Devil imagery, stained-glass church setup, chanting ‘Lucifer,’ all types of weird s*** I'm not into at all...whatever energy (Ghost) left in the building carried over into the game because there’s no other explanation for how bad we looked. Is this a valid excuse, or are we just inconsistent af?"
Here's the simple answer: The Magic are just inconsistent. Plus, accepting Ghost as face-value is just, well...weird. The point of their music is to have fun and not bow down to a certain religion. Is there imagery that many devout Christians won't like? Absolutely. And that's the point, but it isn't to try to suck kids into suddenly being Devil worshipers.
In fact, that is the opposite of the band's point, and most of Ghost's fans know this. Maybe enjoying the band's music just takes a higher level of intelligence than it takes to be an Orlando Magic fan? That isn't a judgment. It just might be a sad fact.
To be fair, Magic fans might not know high-quality when they see it. While Ghost's most recent album, 2025's Skeletá, reached No. 1 on the Billboard album charts, the Orlando Magic have never finished No. 1 by winning an NBA title. It's tough learning how to always lose, but Ghost fans wouldn't know anything about that.