Berger: Dwight Howard Wants Orlando Magic to Pursue Chris Paul, Carlos Boozer

CP3 Yes, Boozer is about 4th on my list behind Bosh, A’mare, and Lee.

Lead to Orlando.

Well, except for the ones that lead to New York, New Jersey, Miami and Chicago.

It’s time for the Magic to put the best Center in the game on the same team with the best PG in the game. Moreover, it’s time to seek out players who are hungry and lose the dead weight. I only ask one thing in return: please don’t trade JJ! Lol! If he is demanded by the other team, then by all means, but do not throw him in there for the sake of it.

He’s after the money not the ring.

silent, Boozer will be fine if we put him alongside D12…don’t worry…

Nelson was exposed as a liability in the Magic’s conference finals loss to the Celtics

I don’t know if I agree with that.

http://www.news-herald.com/articles/2010/07/01/sports/nh2723138.txt

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700044655/Utah-Jazz-Magic-may-make-move-for-Carlos-Boozer.html

and get rid of Carter and start Reddick

Then again, I think there’s a reasonable argument that there is no title without someone like Chris Paul. I’m not sure Boozer does a whole lot for us, but he is a great player.

Even though Dwight has a great relationship with Jameer, him wanting CP3 doesn’t really surprise me. But Carlos Boozer on the other hand, that kinda surprises me. I know they’re good friends but I thought Dwight wanted to be “the man” down low. Boozer may be the most low-post oriented PF in the league and I thought that could cause problems for Dwight. Plus, Boozer is a guy who commands shots (like 14-15 a game) so Dwight may have to sacrifice even more touches but if we do by any chance land Boozer, he and Dwight could work out something in terms of chemistry.

I am disappoint :(

I’m not entirely sure how I see Boozer working out in Orlando but I do like to see what Rashard would be able to do offensively as a SF and Booz and Dwight already chemistry to try to make it work. I think it’ll take smart players to make it work, the system won’t be so 3 pointer-or- Dwight it, so the players have to make good spacing and passes like never before.
On the other side of a S/T, I think we could really help out our Western team Jazz here. I think Gortat is going to be the most obvious piece first, to me atleast. Gortat is the guy who’s buried behind Dwight, but in somewhere like Utah will explode for a double-double, like 10pts/13rbs/3blocks and those defensive numbers and presence will make the Jazz a defensive powerhouse.
From that aspect, I would be done sending Utah anything else for Boozer. But we have to make salaries match and Gortat is not breaking enough ground on a twin towers with Dwight so it’s understandable to lose him. So now, because we are potentially gaining a top PF in Booz, it would ensure Lewis to SF and open the backup job to Bass or Ryan, and except for maybe Bass, neither will really get backup C minutes. That could be a FA, Orton, or Booz sliding over temporarily to a pseudo-5 spot while Dwight rests. I think it would be best to add Bass because he would be most redundant with Booz’s skill sets and his salary with Gortats may already be enough to make the S/T match. Then you have Dwight/FA/Orton at C and Boozer/Ryan at PF and it will give the Magic the valueable flexibilty to go 4 out, 1 in as a mismatch or a set if either of Dwight or Booz is resting, and imagining it working sounds really dangerous on the court.
Unless there are unknown trades or wing FA signings in the equation, and besides Ryan, I would not want JJ Redick or MP in any such S/T for Booz. Magic would need a player exactly like JJ for a Booz/Dwight lineup, and an elite team needs MP to guard their best players and hit those clutch 3s. Losing either of them will start to hurt the Immediate Rotation, especially with Barnes a FA too.

So my essential package for Booz would be Gortat and Bass, whom would not hurt the Magic’s immediate rotations much at all. Hopefully Utah is salivating at the thought of Gortat anchoring the middle and Bass backing up Millsap, so maybe Magic can get some late future 1at rounder from Utah as well. But if Magic were being forced to add something more than Gortat, then Id add future picks and Bass only (or before having to add JJ or MP which hopefully doesn’t happen).

If LBJ lands somewhere for good, the remaining teams with cap space will take on Okafor and/or Posey anyways for CP3 and deal with it later. They have even younger assets too, but the good news is they’d still only have 2 seasons to rebuild around CP3 before his FA and they’d might lose some real good players in a deal with NO. Chad Ford said that NO was rdy to trade CP3 to Portland alrdy but the owner wasn’t open for it at the time. And NJ looks like a real good choice if they strike out on LBJ by taking Okafor and CP3 for capspace and young assets.
    http://espn.go.com/blog/truehoop/post/_/id/17470/teams-still-pursuing-cp3

So it’s looking less likely as FAgency moves on, but I personally think there’s an incredibly high chance if the Magic want to save cap for the summer after 2 seasons.