A healthy Markelle Fultz gives Orlando Magic one of the best young cores

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The Ringer’s Zach Kram posted an article ranking the NBA’s teams by their core on the basis of players that are younger than 25 years old, or will not turn 25 until the halfway point or later of the upcoming NBA season.

He used FiveThirtyEight’s CARMELO player projections to determine future Wins Above Replacement (WAR) for the players. The Magic placed 11th on that list.

But in that study, the Magic have a great deal of uncertainty with so many players yet to play significant time outside of Aaron Gordon, which is the basis for this group’s core moving forward.

We are going to keep the same age factor for this article but eliminate the WAR factor. One player can bloviate the number by themselves so we will be discussing foundations and multiple players on the team instead of who has the best star with superstar potential.

This will not be a 1-30 ranking or anything like that. Other teams will be discussed as a barometer for the Magic’s young core. But outside of that, we will be sticking with the Magic.

Before stacking them up with the likes of the Denver Nuggets and New Orleans Pelicans, let’s look at the Orlando Magic’s core, which features plenty of potential.