It is May. That means 17 days until the NBA Draft Lottery. The next big day on the Orlando Magic’s calendar. The Playoffs do not matter, just the fate of ping pong balls bouncing in a little drum.
As Zach Lowe wrote for Grantland last year, he has never seen so many general managers — men who look at the odds and hedge their bets and take out as much certainty as they can — wringing their hands over something so silly as drawing the right combination of four numbers.
The Orlando Magic enter this Draft Lottery with a 0.