The Orlando Magic are basking in the excitement of their five-game win streak at the All-Star Break. The team is playing its best basketball in several years and has the Playoffs in sight for the first time since this rebuild began.
There is legitimate excitement about the direction the team is headed for the first time — and that includes the trade deadline acquisition of Markelle Fultz. There are tangible results to go with that optimism and hope for the future.
As much as president of basketball operations Jeff Weltman likes to avoid using the word “culture” or any of those words to try to describe systemic organizational frustrations, his goal was to change the team’s, for lack of a better word, culture.