Orlando Magic: All-Time Starting Five

Shooting Guard: Nick Anderson

The Magic took Nick Anderson with the No. 11th overall pick in the 1989 draft, much to the delight of then head coach Matt Guokas/

"“We’re ecstatic,'” Guokas said via UPI.com. “Nick’s got a terrific body and is a strong rebounder with a scorer’s mentality. We felt he would be gone by the 11th pick. You can’t believe how we were holding our breath.”"

Guokas had every right to be excited about the selection. During his 10 years with the Magic, Anderson was a double-digit scorer in every season, with his most productive years taking place during the 1991-92 and 1992-93 campaigns.

In those two seasons, Anderson averaged 19.9 points/6.4 rebounds and 19.9 points/6.0 rebounds, respectively, per contest. Of course, once the Magic acquired O’Neal and Hardaway, Anderson was no longer the focal point of the team’s offense.

Although O’Neal and Hardaway are usually the first names that to come to mind when you talk about the Magic teams of years past, prior to their arrival, Anderson was the franchise’s best player and he still proved to be a respectable scorer in a reduced role.

While Anderson’s last season with the Magic was 1999, he still leads the team in several categories, including games played (692), field goals (4,075), fields goals attempted (8.976) and steals (1,004).

Along with that, Anderson’s 10,650 points are second only to Dwight Howard, who scored 11,435 points during his eight seasons in Orlando.

As good as the other players were who also made the list, none of them personified the Magic franchise in the same manner that Anderson did.

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