For the first time in almost three decades, the Orlando Magic were the recipients of good luck at the draft lottery.
Since the near unfathomable Midas touch of the ping pong balls that delivered Shaq and Penny, the basketball gods have seemingly been karmically opposed to the Central Floridian hardwood. At the conclusion of lean years the Magic consistently – invariably – would see their lottery position either slide or merely hold steady, a circumstance which regularly consigned the side to the margins of the draft’s consensus talent pools. It appeared that the team’s luck had dried up.