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A healthy Markelle Fultz gives Orlando Magic one of the best young cores

The ongoing enigma in the NBA during the last three years has been the health of Markelle Fultz’s right shoulder.

Markelle Fultz was the top pick in a loaded 2016 NBA draft class, taken by the Philadelphia 76ers after they surrendered some of their assets to trade up to get the Washington Huskies guard.

Things did not go as planned. He played in only 33 games across two seasons dealing with a knee injury first and then a shoulder injury that knocked him finally out of the lineup.

The Philadelphia 76ers cut their losses by trading him to the Orlando Magic this offseason, where he spent the final months of last season rehabbing and getting accumulated with the Magic system.