Source: For Now, No Trades on Orlando Magic Horizon

Dunno how that would actually happen, but Jameer and Ryan would almost certainly HAVE to be part of that. Which is unlikely they’d take just that, to say the least but interesting nonetheless.

..then we should expect a trade any day now, cuz we all know that Otis does the exact opposite thing lol

Though to be honest, I kinda agree with Evan’s prediction that if we were to trade, it’d be a decent asset, not Chris Duhon. Come on.. if you were a GM, would you trade for the 3rd point guard of a mid-seed team? I’d rather take a punt on a younger D-Leaguer

It’d be sad to part with Ryan – but if it means a few more experienced backups for Dwight? I prefer Bass though – he’s more dispensable IMO (just because he can’t shoot the 3)

We were formerly an ECF team trying to get over the hump and win a championship.

Is this that same team?

If so, we need a major defensive and/or offensive upgrade.

Jason Richardson’s trade value is never going to be higher. As much as I like him, I’d be willing to move him for that piece.

The Magic have to be honest about whether they envision J-Rich as the starting SG on a championship Magic team. If not, and they still plan to contend this season, they have to trade him before the deadline. I suspect Otis knows this better than I do. J-Rich may not be with us by this time next month.

As a neutral journalistic reporting, the following piece quoted from the report has been properly framed as it was:

“The Magic’s earlier trades came after an unsuccessful road trip to the West Coast, during which Orlando lost 3 of its 4 games by an average of 14.3 points. Otis Smith, the team’s President of Basketball Operations, said before the season began he planned to use that road trip to evaluate the team, meaning the trades were not a knee-jerk response to the trip itself” (Sorry, I still don’t know how to do block quotes on the blog).

Risking to sound like a broken record, I still feel compelled to mention that such argument by Otis Smith is plain foolish since those games following a virus hit on a grueling road-trip were not representative of the team’s capacity. Having that said, I have to qualify that the prior team was not free of flaws, but yet was a tested commodity with reasonable projection of its ceilings – based on past experience – with potentials for higher grounds. In short, financial considerations aside, while a tweaking could have been justified, an overhaul of the magnitude taken, was extremely risky, and has not panned out so far, as it relates to players’ assessments based on large samples of minutes played.

Sure…the Magic should mortgage their future even more than they already have…for what? Then again, they constantly give gifts to other teams for their overrated and overpriced talent…so it wouldn’t be suprising. But I find that highly unlikely they move RA.

… I think that Minnesota would be the most likely place for us to get a solid backup center. I don’t believe they would part with Milicic, but perhaps we could trade for Pekovic. The guy is real good offensively and for his backup minutes, he’ll do just fine defensively, too.

I think NY is sending W. Chandler to Denver and Minnesota is also sending C. Brewer the same direction. There is an article about it on Yahoo! Sports.

and 1 of their C’s.