want to get back in the World Group.Weve just go

NEW YORK -- Pat Williams is pretty good at being lucky, and hes got a hunch. "I got a funny feeling that this could be another Magic year, here. For some reason, Ive just got the feel," Williams said. Orlando sure could use it. Following a difficult first season after trading Dwight Howard, the Magic are hoping Williams can bring them more lottery luck. Armed with the best odds and their three-time winner back on stage, the Magic will try to jump-start the rebuilding process Tuesday night by landing the rights to the No. 1 pick in the NBA draft. Williams has won four times, including victories in 1992, 93 and 2004 with the Magic. They used the most recent one to draft Howard, and no team since has entered with the best odds and won the lottery. The Magic were back in the lottery the next two years but were busy playing in the post-season every spring since until this one, when they finished an NBA-worst 20-62 after sending Howard to the Los Angeles Lakers last August in a four-team deal. That gives them a 25 per cent chance at winning the rights to choose first in a draft that appears uncertain. Kentucky freshman Nerlens Noel is considered the top choice, though he could miss the first two months of the season while recovering from a torn ACL. Williams, the longtime team executive, thinks a victory would give the Magic and their fans a boost. "And obviously, to be in that first slot, it gives you lots of flexibility," he said. "Even in a year like this when there a lot of uncertainties with the draft -- there doesnt appear to be a franchise turner, but there are lots of good players in this draft who will have NBA careers. But if we could pull off a win here, it would give our city just a big lift and after a tough year that would be more than welcome." Williams, in good spirits and saying he feels well 2 1/2 years after being diagnosed with blood cancer, jokes about his lottery history. The Magic celebrate it, with pingpong balls in their trophy case. Hes been so good that the NBA was forced to change the lottery process after Orlandos second victory. The Magic won the 1992 lottery and picked Shaquille ONeal, then barely missed the playoffs in his rookie season. Yet they won again with just one pingpong ball out of 66, swapping the rights to Chris Webber for Penny Hardaway, and starting with the 1994 lottery the NBA tweaked the system to give the worst team an even better chance to win and making it nearly impossible for the lottery team with the best record to pull the upset. "The Orlando rules," Williams said. The biggest loser now has 250 chances out of 1,000 but keeps coming up empty. The Charlotte Bobcats had the worst winning percentage in NBA history last season but slipped to No. 2, missing their chance to pick college player of the year Anthony Davis. Davis will be at the Times Square Studios on Tuesday to represent New Orleans in the Pelicans introduction for much of the national audience. The former Hornets name change became official at the end of the regular season. The Pelicans have the fifth-best odds at 8.8 per cent. Charlotte is second at 19.9 per cent, followed by Cleveland (15.6) and Phoenix (11.9). The lottery has supplanted the playoffs as Clevelands off-season destination. The Cavaliers are in the lottery for the third straight year, a run that began when LeBron James packed his bags and headed for Miami Cavs owner Dan Gilbert, who also has a string of casinos throughout Ohio, will be hoping for a little luck when the pingpong balls drop. The Cavs won the lottery in 2011 and used the No. 1 overall pick on point guard Kyrie Irving, who was named an All-Star this past season. Last year, the Cavs picked fourth and chose Dion Waiters, who had a solid rookie season. Cleveland has four of the top 33 picks -- Nos. 19, 31 and 33 -- in this years draft and intend to add some talent and depth for coach Mike Brown, who Gilbert has brought back after firing him three years ago. The draft is June 27 at Barclays Center, home of the Brooklyn Nets. Williams and the Magic have been gone so long that he isnt even sure the setup in the new location, after it was held for years in Secaucus, N.J., at an old NBA Entertainment studio. "Well have to see if we still have our Magic touch in the next decade," he said. "But were ready, we come loaded for bear. We worked hard and earned our 25 per cent chance through 82 games, and that puts us in the pole position here." Nike Blazers Wholesale China . 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Lleyton Hewitt is hoping to reunite Nick Kyrgios and Bernard Tomic in Australias Davis Cup team for the first time in three years.Hewitt on Tuesday named Kyrgios and Tomic alongside Sam Groth and John Peers for Australias World Group playoff with Slovakia in Sydney next week.But Kyrgios is racing the clock to be fit for the grasscourt tie at Olympic Park from September 16-18 after being forced to quit his third-round US Open match with a hip injury.John Millman is on standby, with James Duckworth also in the six-man squad as an option given his ability to play both singles and doubles.Hewitt, though, is giving Kyrgios every chance to recover in time.If he does, the skipper will have top-20 stars Kyrgios and Tomic teaming up for the first time since an 18-year-old Kyrgios made his Davis Cup debut in Australias 4-1 World Group playoff win in Poland in September, 2013.Various injuries, illnesses and suspensions have prevented Kyrgios and Tomic from representing Australia together over the past three years and six ties.Obviously Id love to have those two boys leading us in the singles, Hewitt told AAP.Hopefully well have Nick. But if we dont, we still think we can put out a good outfit and we want to get back in the World Group.Weve just got to focus. Weree not taking the Slovaks lightly whatsoever.ddddddddddddBut we think we can get the job done.Slovakia are likely to be led by world No.29 Martin Klizan and the 99th-ranked Lukas Lacko.With Kyrgios in doubt, Millman is suddenly in the frame for a Cup call-up.He wasnt part of it initially purely because we had to look at doubles options as well, Hewitt said.So John Peers, Grothy and Ducks were the original squad.But Millman is certainly the next best singles player and so Ill be speaking with him and working out how Nicks going and then Ill have to make a plan on that.Im definitely covering all my bases and giving ourselves the best opportunity.After a series of devastating injuries, Millman has rebuilt his career and ranking with a fine 2016 season and was unlucky to draw eighth seed Dominic Thiem in the first round at Flushing Meadows.Millman lost in five sets and Hewitt is backing the world No.66 to do the job for Australia if asked to make his debut.I thought he played really well in New York. He would have beaten a lot of players if he didnt draw a guy like Dominic Thiem, Hewitt said.That was a really high-quality match. ' ' '