Orlando Magic Mock Draft Roundup: Post-Lottery Edition
The NBA Draft Lottery has come and gone. It is time to go around the Web to see who the experts have the Orlando Magic taking in this mock draft roundup.
The NBA Draft Lottery is done. The final draft order is set.
There is no more saying if a team wins the Lottery, there is now certainty about where each team is picking. The Orlando Magic know they will pick sixth in the NBA Draft. That will be the pick everyone puts their focus and attention on. It is the pick that will shape the Magic’s franchise and immediate future.
Orlando will also select 25th and 35th. And, thanks to the Los Angeles Lakers landing the second pick in the Draft, the Magic will have the 33rd pick.
That is four picks for the Magic in the first 35 picks and a real chance to reshape the roster and inject it with some young players. Or package some of those picks to move up in the draft.
The options seem boundless. And the Magic will have to know every bit of this Draft to make the most of it.
That is a lot of work for a front office that is a bit short handed and does not have a permanent leader yet. It is also a critically important Draft and the Magic have to make sure they get this selection right. The pick at the top will form the backbone for the Magic’s retooling and the other picks will serve as key role players.
It does not take long for everyone to reconfigure their outlooks and remake their mock drafts. It did not take long for a slew of mock drafts to come out and set the narratives for the next month in the run to the NBA Draft on June 22.
The players the Magic can focus on at the sixth overall pick are pretty set. The three players I would focus most on for now are NC State Wolfpack guard Dennis Smith, Kentucky Wildcats guard Malik Monk and Florida State Seminoles forward Jonathan Isaac. I would keep an eye on Jayson Tatum of the Duke Blue Devils possibly slipping into the Magic’s range and possibly even De’Aaron Fox of Kentucky and Frank Ntilikina from France.
This is a deep draft and the Magic are likely to get a quality, potential star, player at the sixth overall pick.
On this first day after the Draft Lottery, let’s take a look at whom peanut gallery believes the Magic will land.