Welcome to the NBA, Reece Gaines. Ten days from now your first game as a member of the Orlando Magic will be against none other than LeBron James.

"Yeah, they've already told me our first summer league game is against Cleveland," Gaines said as a wide smile spread across his face. "That'll be exciting, for sure. I got to meet LeBron in New York and he's a good guy. But that's why you want to be in the NBA, playing against the great players every single night. Here in Orlando I get to start at home so that'll be good."

Orlando made Gaines its first-round draft pick Thursday night, hoping that his muscular 6-foot-6, 205-pound frame will be useful against bigger opposing guards. He'll certainly be tested on July 8 when James, the high school sensation taken No. 1 overall by the Cavs, plays his first professional game in summer-league action in Orlando.

For the first time in the Orlando summer league's three-year existence, a round of games will be played at TD Waterhouse Centre and will be open to fans. The reasoning is simple. Four of the top eight players selected in Thursday's NBA Draft -- Detroit's Darko Milicic, Miami's Dwyane Wade, Milwaukee's T.J. Ford and Cleveland's James -- are scheduled to play in the league. The Magic sold 2,300 tickets at $5 on Friday and figure that crowds could top 10,000 for a relatively meaningless scrimmage.

It also will be the first look at Gaines, the 15th pick of draft, and the Magic's two second-round picks -- European power forward Zaza Pachulia and former Kentucky shooting guard Keith Bogans. Gaines, for one, can hardly wait to get started.