Orlando Sentinel writer Brian Schmitz reports: A former Magic played told him that he showed Chris Webber around town recently.

Also, Magic General Manager John Gabriel is advising the local media that it can ask him whom the club might pick at No. 15 all it wants, but he can't guarantee his nose won't grow to Pinocchio proportions. He's basically guarding national secrets. GMs are not only trying to throw other GMs off track, but deftly they will use the media to leave false trails and create misdirection plays.

Will the Magic take DePaul center Steven Hunter, whom they love, or 7-footers Brendan Haywood, Loren Woods or Jason Collins? Will they trade up, offering rookie of the year Mike Miller to get a crack at a top-five big man? Honest Gabe can't say.

The ex-Magic player who said he squired Chris around Orlando told me to draw my own conclusions. Or illusions.