>Accumulating a bunch of high lottery picks doesn’t guarantee
>anything beyond a lot of losing. The Magic, who haven’t
>sniffed the playoffs in almost a decade, are the perfect
>example. They have had plenty of talent in that time: They had
>Victor Oladipo and Tobias Harris on the same team at one
>point. The problem was that they were never able to create an
>environment around those players to help them reach their
>potential. Neither blossomed until they wound up in a better
>situation.