It is officially NBA Draft week and no general manager may be under pressure to move the needle for his franchise more than the Orlando Magic’s Rob Hennigan.
Hennigan arrived in Orlando four years ago as a savior. The young wunderkind was expected to instill San Antonio and Oklahoma City’s winning culture onto this Magic squad.
Fast forward to today, and Orlando is still very pedestrian. This past year, they won 35 games and ranked 11th in the Eastern Conference, far from the highfalutin standard Hennigan experienced prior to his time running the franchise.
Even Hennigan would likely admit rebuilding in the NBA has been a little harder than he would have envisioned.