Orlando Magic taking part in workouts, quietly

The Orlando Magic are not a team that publicizes their workouts. But they are busy at work including at IMG for a pro day today featuring Skal Labissiere.

The Orlando Magic like to do their draft preparations behind closed doors. They do not reveal or discuss who they are working out or what they are looking for ahead of the NBA Draft.

While many teams publicize their workouts and make prospects available to the media, and have done so throughout the last few weeks, the Magic are quietly conducting workouts at the Amway Center and elsewhere.

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Orlando Magic Daily can confirm workouts have occurred at the Amway Center, but have not received any word on who the Magic might be working out. The information is a slow trickle coming from other sources.

This is the standard operating procedure for Rob Hennigan and the Magic.

But there are a few things to report today:

The Magic are also attending the IMG Academy Pro Day in Bradenton, Fla. According to Cody Taylor of Basketball Insiders, the Magic have a large contingent at the event:

Why so many Magic representatives? Kentucky center Skal Labissiere is working out at the pro day as well as other clients of Relativity Sports, the agency that represents him.

Among the players working out at the event are free agents Adonis Thomas, Dwight Buycks and Jarnell Stokes. These are all players that are just on the outside of the NBA and could easily make the jump from D-League back into the league.

Labissiere is obviously a player many mock drafts have the Magic targeting. Juan Hernangomez is an interesting prospect from Spain expected to go in the late first round or early second round.

Labissiere though is undoubtedly the main event. With him in Bradenton already (it is near Tampa), it would not be so surprising to see him take the quick trip to Central Florida early this week for a more personal one-on-one with Magic brass.

Adam Zagoria of SNY reports Iona guard A.J. English will workout for the Magic some time this week:

English averaged 22.6 points per game and 6.2 assists per game while shooting a 54.0 percent effective field goal percentage. He shot nearly identitcal two- and three-point field goal percentages as a senior as Iona’s high-volume scorer.

The 6-foot-3 point guard averaged more than 15 points per game in his final three seasons and averaged more than 20 points per game and five assists per game in his final two seasons. He was the only player to accomplish that feat the past two years and the first to accomplish this statistical mark since Nate Wolters at South Dakota State. He joins current NBA players Cameron Payne, Norris Cole, Evan Turner and Stephen Curry in hitting that 20-5 mark.

English won the MVP at the Portsmouth Invitational Tournament, a summer tournament designed specifically for college seniors.

English is currently projected by DraftExpress not to get drafted. His being a senior and his still kind of middling 3-point percentage probably do not help him. He has been a high-volume scorer for the last three years and is not likely to see that role in the NBA. But he has good size and length for someone his height and is intriguing to say the least.

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The Magic could certainly be considering him with one of their two second round picks — 41 and 47. He could also be someone the Magic look to draft and stash in Erie or sign outright for the Erie Bayhawks.