Magic GM Otis Smith will take applications for the backup center position behind Dwight Howard for 2011-12. Can a kid who logged zero minutes and seldom practiced with the team win the job? Is Daniel Orton that guy? “I believe I am,” Orton told me. “I believe I am for so many reasons, but I'd rather not say because it would only raise expectations higher. I'm not a sayer. I'm a doer.” As the Magic's first-round pick out of Kentucky, Orton, 20, couldn't do anything this season as a rookie but watch.
Walter Cornett, of Glendale, Kentucky, is the owner and operator of Walter's Wildcat World. He founded WildcatWorld.com in 1998 making it one of the oldest Kentucky basketball fan sites in operation today.