On the night before the draft, he …

On the night before the draft, he cried. The next day, he landed with the Magic, taken at No. 15. “This was a kid who went into his freshman year as being regarded as a special talent, as a legit top-five kid, blah blah blah,” Greg Anthony said. “All that stuff happened and the injury, so the narrative kind of changed on him. So he went from being one of those guys to now all of a sudden a project. But he never really stopped being one of those guys. If you really looked into who he was and what kind of player he was and really watched him, that was really the only time he was inefficient.”