NBA Rumors: Dwight Howard's Agent Has Permission to Seek Trade to Los Angeles Lakers, New Jersey Nets, Dallas Mavericks

I hate how the NBA has become this kind of speculation and rumor hounding lately. Did guys like Charles Barkley and Patrick Ewing get hounded for the final year of their contracts about where there we going because they hadn’t won yet?

It was already tiresome with Lebron, ridiculous with Carmelo, and with Dwight it’s about to turn me off to the whole thing. I even heard Blake Griffen asked about it last year and he had like 3 more years. It’s just so – ugh.

Please send me those stories because I’ve seen only two compared to the hundreds saying otherwise. I think we all need a pick me up

most depressingly true statement ever

Despite actually signing a number of huge free agents over the year, if the 2 best we’ve ever had leave in such a similar way it will be crushing to the perception of the franchise for years and years to come.

I forgot he was in the deal too.

The Otis and Martins thing is amazing to me. We seem to be in complete disarray.

It’s all very confusing.

He is frustrated. At the media for the same questions. At the Magic for not getting better players. Just a cluster.

I think that’s the number one thing everyone has to remember. He’s a millionaire baller, but he still is a human being who had a dream one day that he could improve his lot in life by being a top tier basketball player in the NBA. Here it is. His dream has come true and he now has options which he’s earned through being one of the best and most durable players in the NBA.

I can see it in his face when he talks about what he’s tried to build here in Orlando and I can tell it bothers him that he hasn’t brought a championship here. He’s been very loyal to us through the years and he’s always vehemently defended the city and the organization, unlike others who’ve chosen to leave. But now he has the opportunity to try something else in his life. I’m sure some of us Magic fans have wanted a fresh start before. Dwight Howard is no different.

Dwight wants to leave? Let him do it as a free agent. Cap space and Orlando would be terrible. IN this league you have to suck for three years. Get three top 5 picks and then you go. Orlando’s error was never Rashard Lewis, it was being good the year they got Dwight. They needed to suck for one or two more years. We need to suck for a few years. So if Otis Smith can not do a trade to get someone(and I obviously do not trust Otis) trade Dwight where we can get cap space and multiple picks in this year’s draft(Kendall Marshall might be a freaking second round pick people[how deep is this draft going to be?]) and give me cap space.

To make runs at restricted Free Agents Eric Gordon and Russel Westbrook.

Plus having a top 5 pick. As long as we have a one top 5 pick in this year’s draft we would be set, every other pick in this draft is just gravy. I would rather trade to Dallas and get expiring contracts. And Jason Terry is at least fun for a year.

Shame. Otis must be fired right now. Hire a decent GM(me or Bill Simmons) and trade Dwight while trying to get the best cap space(expiring contracts) and draft picks in 2012 Draft.

Nets if they amnesty Outlaw I want Brooks, Lopez, both picks, 2014 pick, and 2016 pick. Plus some second rounders this year as well. And they have to take Turk and Q or Duhon. That is it. Nothing more nothing less.

Dallas if they want to use their newly acquired $12 mill TPE on Turk and gives Terry, Beubois, Wright, Mahinmi, ’12, ’14, ’16 picks. And maybe the ’18 pick as well.

I think they’ve showed that with the moves they’ve made over the years.
They overpayed Rashard Lewis just to get someone here. He was good at first, but obviously was’t worth that much money long term.
They signed Turk to that midlevel deal several years ago and he played quite well for us at that price. They didn’t re-sign him after that contract was up 2 years ago because he wanted too much money.
They traded for Vince Carter who was coming off a good year, but he got hurt too much and never lived up to the hype here for us.
Then they traded him for Jason Richardson who was having a lot of success in Pheonix. They also brought back Turk in that deal at his much higher price. They gave up way too much to get it done and we saw how that worked out.
Then same day, they traded Lewis for Gilbert Arenas in hopes he could regain his former abbilities… and he couldn’t.
So it’s not like they haven’t tried…. the moves just haven’t panned out. Regardless of what you thought of them at the time… In hindsight we see how bad ALL of these moves look… but again, they tried.

I know Sheed was flipped after only being with the Hawks for like a week and Billups back in the day never even played a game for us, but I am not sure with the new CBA.

For us it is a sport. For them it is a business. What about when you leave your job for a better job? What is the difference? Take your emotion out of it. Dwight gave us 8 years where he busted his tail off every single night. We have the best arena in the world, which means the Magic are never leaving here. Time for fans to grow up.