Fla. (AP) -- All those road trips, all those late nights at hotels and airports. Chuck Daly has had enough. The 68-year-old coach quit the Orlando Magic on Monday, nine days after his team was upset in the first round of the playoffs. Daly, whose coaching career spanned two decades and included two NBA titles in Detroit, was in the final year of a three-year contract worth $5 million. ``I've had a great run, a great career,'' he said at a news conference. ``This is a finale for me in coaching. This will conclude my coaching career.'' Daly said the Magic's playoff elimination by Philadelphia in four games and tensions with star Penny Hardaway didn't play a role in his decision. Hardaway's future with the team is unclear and he plans to become a free agent this summer. ``It's time. It's as simple as that,'' Daly said. ``The mind is willing but the flesh is weak.'' Daly said all the travel and games had taken a toll, and he decided it was time to leave coaching. ``What a life. Three or four nights a week, bopping around at 2 o'clock in the morning,'' Daly said. ``It's just time to leave the bench.'' He will stay as a consultant to Magic general manager John Gabriel. ``What that amounts to, I don't know,'' he said. Daly was joined at the news conference by four of his players -- Darrell Armstrong, Nick Anderson, Horace Grant and Bo Outlaw -- who praised him for his coaching and for the opportunities he gave them. ``He gave me a different outlook on basketball and life,'' Anderson said. ``He told me 'Just enjoy.''' Gabriel said he would begin his search for a new coach in weeks. He praised Daly for his leadership and his willingness to try blend older and younger players. ``He pushed us to get better each and every day and his contributions will live on in this organization,'' Gabriel said. Orlando missed the playoffs in his first year, but this season tied for the second-best record in the Eastern Conference. Despite the first-round playoff loss, Daly had described the lockout-shortened season as one of the most satisfying of his career. His contract included a clause that gave him the option to continue coaching at $5 million a season, accept a position as a club consultant for $200,000 or leave Orlando for another job. Daly coached the 1992 Olympic team to a gold medal in Barcelona. He and Lenny Wilkens are the only coaches to have won NBA and Olympic championships. Daly, who led the Pistons to titles in 1989 and 1990, was hired by the Magic on June 3, 1997 and had a 74-58 regular-season record in two seasons. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1994 and worked as a television analyst for three years before joining the Magic. He began his NBA coaching career with Cleveland in 1981-82 and guided the Pistons for nine seasons (1983-84 to 1991-92). Detroit had five 50-plus victory seasons under Daly. Following the Pistons, Daly took over the New Jersey Nets for two seasons and led them to the playoffs both years. When the Magic failed to qualify for the postseason in 1998, it the marked the first time Daly missed the playoffs after coaching a full season. Daly has a career regular-season record of 638-437 in 13 years. In 12 playoff appearances, his teams went 75-51. -=-=- 