Orlando Magic: Top 10 moments from 2017-18 NBA season

10. Nikola Vucevic still has worth

Center Nikola Vucevic has driven Magic fans up the walls for a couple of seasons now. Here is a guy with clear talent, who has become the poster boy for empty stats on this team. Yet for all the complaining against him, Vucevic has averaged a double-double in four out of the last six seasons.

This year, despite playing in only 57 games because of injury and with more help than ever, he nearly managed to do so once again, averaging 16.5 points and 9.2 rebounds per game.

Given that Bismack Biyombo is making $17 million for the next two seasons and basically can’t be traded, the Magic need to move Vucevic this offseason.

He was injured at the trade deadline and so nobody came calling, but that should be different this offseason. That is the real positive to take from Vucevic’s late season return. He once again played himself into the shop window for a playoff team.

As a sixth man off the bench, his offensive game could be of real use to a contender, and could net the Magic a decent return as well. It’d be small victory, but Vucevic is only 27 years old and has been Orlando’s best player since Dwight Howard left in 2012.

Playing himself into a bit of form, and hopefully a trade as a result, would be the perfect parting gift. How he closed out the season was a positive in that regard.