The NBA Draft process is always a long one.
If trying to predict who the Orlando Magic are going to pick or what a team is going to do, it feels a bit like the stock market. We are all trying to read the tea leaves of mock drafts, self-evaluation and knowledge of a team’s wants and history to try to figure out who each team will pick.
The Magic do a good job keeping their intentions fairly private, leading to plenty of guessing. But this year, a favorite did appear to emerge late in the process — or at least for the No.