J. Kyle Mann
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Everyone else, I mean, you can move... Capella makes $7 million.
I'm not sure he has much value.
Everyone else is kind of like... Unless you're ready to just say, we're trading Jabari Smith Jr.
or whatever, it's kind of a core part of your team.
So it's not...
It's not that easy, but they were on my list.
The candidates for this, and I will go through my own, were Houston.
And I just, I didn't pick them because I think they are going to make the top six.
I considered them.
I considered Minnesota, who's currently sixth, but I have absolutely this will come back to surely come back to bite me.
I have absolutely no fear that they're going to fall out of the top six there.
I said it.
I considered Phoenix, who's seventh, but this is an all gravy season for Phoenix.
I considered Toronto, who's fifth in the East.
It's an all gravy season for Toronto.
I considered Philadelphia, who's sixth in the East.
Just with all the injuries and the feel-good story of Edgecombe and Maxey, it doesn't feel like a catastrophe if they fall into the play-in.
And then I considered Milwaukee and just said, I think they're too far back of the number six seed for this conversation.
I landed on Orlando, who is 28 and 25 with a negative point differential for the season and seventh in the East in a season in which reasonable people, not me, reasonable people picked them to make the NBA Finals.
I just think this is a disaster season for the Magic as it is now.