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2023 Orlando Magic Daily Mock Draft 1.5: Magic fans take a stab

By Philip Rossman-Reich

LUBBOCK, TEXAS - JANUARY 03: Guard Gradey Dick #4 of the Kansas Jayhawks handles the ball against guard Pop Isaacs #2 of the Texas Tech Red Raiders during the first half of the college basketball game at United Supermarkets Arena on January 03, 2023 in Lubbock, Texas. (Photo by John E. Moore III/Getty Images)
LUBBOCK, TEXAS - JANUARY 03: Guard Gradey Dick #4 of the Kansas Jayhawks handles the ball against guard Pop Isaacs #2 of the Texas Tech Red Raiders during the first half of the college basketball game at United Supermarkets Arena on January 03, 2023 in Lubbock, Texas. (Photo by John E. Moore III/Getty Images) /
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The NBA Draft Lottery is now less than two weeks away. A lot of the future for the Orlando Magic will come into focus as will exactly how they will play their offseason. Everything will fall into place soon.

This is just the first question to answer.

Some more Lottery luck will mean adding some more highly talented players but likely allowing some patience to let young players integrate into the league. A pick in the right spot or the draft shaking out a certain way could open the door for trades.

There are just a million directions the team could go in as the Draft gets closer and closer. It is too hard at the moment to predict what the Magic might do or what the right path is.

The Orlando Magic’s offseason can go in a million different directions. So we are turning the first choice to you in our latest Mock Draft, we let Magic fans answer who the team should pick.

Orlando has a lot of avenues open to it. Not just because the team has two potential Lottery picks in the upcoming draft, but because it has a promising young team eager to grow and cap room to make some significant additions to the team in free agency.

Everyone is excited for what the Magic are going to do.

But it still all starts with draft night. And while it is still too early to try to predict any trades that might happen — and the Magic should be active looking to move around come June — it is still a good time to look at what the Magic might do on draft night.

We already took our first stab at the draft with our first mock draft. Probably leaning too much on needs and not enough on how the big boards for teams might actually shake out, we had the Magic coming away with shooting in Gradey Dick and a potential offensive dynamo in Brice Sensebaugh.

That got some mixed reviews from our followers, with the assurance that it was just a first run-through. There will be more mock drafts and evaluations to come.

But at this early stage, it felt like a good time to turn the question over to our audience. What would you do if you were the Magic in the draft at each position they could select before the Lottery?

Using our initial mock draft as a guide, we turned the question to you to make your own mock draft by voting in a series of online polls asking: Who should the Magic draft at this pick?

The results that follow may still represent that draft order as it is set before the Lottery, but it is very much a thought experiment of who the Magic would take at each level and layer of the Draft.

This is our community Mock Draft.