ESPN’s latest 30 for 30, This Magic Moment, opens with two men, weathered with experience reminiscing on what could have been.
What if Shaquille O’Neal never left, Anfernee Hardaway asks. What if Anfernee Hardaway never got hurt, Shaquille O’Neal asks back. These are two of the great questions left from the Orlando Magic of the mid-1990s. The questions that could never be answered properly.
What would have happened if these two great players had stayed together? What would have happened if things broke the right way and the inevitable ascendency of one of the youngest, most exciting teams of a generation had continued on its seemingly endless upward trajectory?