ORLANDO – Nikola Vucevic’s name is littered all over the Magic’s historical record book and, even while playing for an Orlando franchise that boasts some of the NBA’s greatest players ever, the 7-footer has authored some of the team’s most prolific individual efforts.
All that work and all those accomplishments in seven years in Orlando have earned Vucevic zero winning seasons, zero playoff victories, zero all-star game appointments and, quite frankly, zero fulfillment.
The only thing hollower than Vucevic’s statistics over the previous six years – his words in describing the often-gaudy numbers that he’s posted – is the hollow feeling that he’s had while the Magic have struggled year after year.