The Orlando Magic are currently "tanking", which means that they have purposefully sabotaged their team to lose games, in order to get the best odds at a high lottery pick in the NBA Draft Lottery (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBA_draft_lottery , for more information).
A team called the Philadelphia 76ers exploited the pre-2019 draft lottery by purposefully losing games (egregiously so), and ended up landing two 1st overall picks, and two 3rd overall picks. The NBA did not appreciate the way the 76er's (and to an extent, the Cleveland Cavaliers) were getting all these top picks so easily (as at the time, the worst record had a 1 in 4 chance of getting the 1st overall pick, and couldn't drop lower than 4th overall), and decided to revamp the system. Now it is much more "balanced", but it also calls into question the effectiveness of "tanking". One such question of whether or not tanking is an effective method of trying to get success comes into last years draft lottery, where the Orlando Magic were tied with Detroit and Houston for the worst record in the NBA. pre-2017, the Orlando Magic would not have dropped lower than 4th (barring tie-breakers and such), and would have an incredibly high chance of getting the number one pick (which in this draft, was Cade Cunningham, a player deemed to be a franchise changing player). Unfortunately for the Magic, they ended up getting passed by the Toronto Raptors, who had more wins (not by a lot, but they were in a better position as a franchise being 2 years removed from a championship), thus kicking the Magic out of the top 4, and killing any chance at a trade into the top 3 picks.
The good news for the Magic is that despite "dropping" in the draft lottery, they still managed to get two excellent basketball players-- however that doesn't change the fact that half of the roster is injured*, and that they're still missing talent at important positions. They also just hired a Rookie Head Coach, who by all accounts is here to develop players first, and win second (which is why the record is very bad).
In short, the NBA Draft Lottery changed massively in 2017 (with the death knell to Philadelphia 76ers-style tanking being in 2019), resulting in the Orlando Magic missing out on a possibly franchise altering player.
*People like to put out conspiracies whether or not some players are actually still injured, or if the front office is just dragging their feet on updates in order to help the "tank"
