The Orlando Magic were at a crossroads last summer.
The team fired Rob Hennigan after five years of a misdirection and stalling in a planned rebuild project. The team not only never got the high draft pick to center the rebuild but also made a ton of missteps and errors that put the team further in the hole. That culminated with the ill-fated trade for Serge Ibaka and the free agent splurge that most notably brought in Bismack Biyombo.
Orlando never topped 35 wins during its five-year run and decided it was time to pull the plug on the experiment and find a new path forward.