There are several ways the Magic can revive this fractured franchise -- and one choice is unthinkable and unsettling.

Trading Tracy McGrady is the last option after the last option.

What the Magic might consider is dealing the No.1 or No. 2 lottery pick should they land one of them.

This isn't a superstar draft, no LeBron James or Carmelo Anthony. There are some Dwyane Wades and some Chris Boshes. And more high school kids and nondescript foreigners than you care to name.

Normally, a franchise shouldn't feel the need to panic. Draft (Emeka Okafor), sign free agents (Mark Blount, Brent Barry) and stir. But McGrady, frustrated as the franchise has bottomed out, can leave after next season. The timer's on.

The Magic can go fishing and see what T-Mac could fetch in a trade. But unless you get, say, Theo Ratliff and Zach Randolph or Amare Stoudemire and Joe Johnson for him, what's the point? And would other teams tear up their blueprints for T-Mac's marquee magic?