Dwight Howard Rumors: New Jersey Nets, Dallas Mavericks the Front-Runners to Land Orlando Magic Center, According to Report
by Evan Dunlap on Feb 17, 2012 5:57 PM EST
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PrintIn an interview with the Boston radio station WEEI, Yahoo! Sports columnist Adrian Wojnarowski said he believes the New Jersey Nets and Dallas Mavericks are the front-runners to land Orlando Magic star center Dwight Howard in free agency. The Nets will have the salary-cap space to sign him outright, while Dallas can clear space by using the amnesty clause on Brendan Haywood and shedding the salary of Shawn Marion via trade.
"Do you see [Maverickss owner] Mark Cuban telling everyone how great Shawn Marion is, he's All-Defensive Team, why doesn't anybody appreciate Shawn Marion?" Wojnarowski asked during the interview. "Because he's trying to get his contract off [...]" Wojnarowski says Cuban hopes to lure Howard and Nets point guard Deron Williams to Dallas, teaming them with Dirk Nowitzki to form another Western powerhouse. Either outcome would pair Howard and Williams, two close friends.
During training camp, the Magic granted Dan Fegan, Howard's agent, permission to discuss trades with the Nets, Mavs, and Los Angeles Lakers. Of those teams, only L.A. must trade for Howard in order to acquire him, meaning the Magic have no real leverage in trade discussions with Dallas and New Jersey.
If the Nets were to make a trade offer for Howard, it'd certainly include fourth-year center Brook Lopez, who has yet to play this season after breaking his foot in a preseason game. However, Lopez could return to the court as soon as Saturday, reports Andy Vasquez, giving New Jersey the opportunity to showcase the Stanford product's skills before the trade deadline.
But such a showcase may not matter. In early February, longtime Magic beat writer Brian Schmitz said the Magic "don't want Brook Lopez, healthy or otherwise." The only trade involving Howard the Magic will make is with Los Angeles for Andrew Bynum.
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Why would Howard got too the nets when Deron Williams could come to the Magic in FA next year
Go Jags Go Magic
What are you talking about?
Magic doesn’t have the cap space to sign DWill. They are over the cap.
http://www.netsdaily.com/2011/5/13/2168930/in-mock-drafts-no-consensus-yet
by jasperjarrod on Feb 17, 2012 7:36 PM EST via iPhone app up reply actions
Some poeple just dont understand b-ball..
I probably know Judo! How many of you can make the same boast?
by Souwantmyname on Feb 17, 2012 10:45 PM EST up reply actions
Oh I did not Know that, cant they find a way to get the cap space, like cut some players or somethimg
Go Jags Go Magic
No, not really.
The Davis and J-Rich contracts eat most of Orlando’s flexibility going forward.
by eltharion_doa on Feb 17, 2012 7:50 PM EST via Android app up reply actions
We may have had a chance if Otis didnt sign anyone this year and we would have had to amnestied Hedo next year
but Otis decided to dole out not one but two cap killing unmovable contracts
I probably know Judo! How many of you can make the same boast?
by Souwantmyname on Feb 17, 2012 10:47 PM EST up reply actions
You can only amnesty one player...
I outlined how space for two max deals could be done in a summer fanpost, even with Turk staying. Not easy, but more creative GMT than Otis could have managed it.
by eltharion_doa on Feb 18, 2012 12:12 AM EST via Android app up reply actions
For real, Basketball is not the same thing as football. You just don't cut contracts
"Number one song and a Grammy, now I'm smashing
Maserati crashing, swerving through the traffic
Wrap it 'round a pole, sell a mil off the tragedy
I defy gravity "
I'd take Marion and a draft pick over Lopez
by eltharion_doa on Feb 17, 2012 7:50 PM EST via Android app reply actions
For D12?
Are you serious?
http://www.netsdaily.com/2011/5/13/2168930/in-mock-drafts-no-consensus-yet
by jasperjarrod on Feb 17, 2012 8:02 PM EST via iPhone app up reply actions
Can we get Andrew Bynum and Paul Gasol for Dwight Howard that seems like a good deal
Go Jags Go Magic
At this point I'd see what i could get from the Clippers
I would trade Dwight and Ryan for Griffin and Jordan. Ryan is a tough loss but he wont be nearly as effective here without DH
I probably know Judo! How many of you can make the same boast?
by Souwantmyname on Feb 17, 2012 10:49 PM EST up reply actions
If he's going to Jersey or Dallas
Orlando has to take whatever is on the table. The Mavs have better talent. NJ had a better draft pick mind, but I’m sure Cuban would get creative to lock down Howard.
by eltharion_doa on Feb 18, 2012 12:14 AM EST via Android app up reply actions
I'm honestly for.....
Doing nothing except calling Dwight’s bluf. I don’t think he is that committed to leaving Orlando , he’d have to take 30 million dollars less to do so.
His agents get paid a % of the contract. I think they’ll change their tune facing more than a million dollar hit.
Additionally , while were at it, I’d fire Otis Smith. Not big on firing coaches or execs normally but his trades have not panned out. His best draft is with Howard and Nelson together. Reddick fell into our laps on draft night and anyone would have made that pick. Other than those moves…what has he done?
by DraftPhantom on Feb 17, 2012 9:41 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
I like that strategy too...
by eltharion_doa on Feb 18, 2012 12:15 AM EST via Android app up reply actions
Arguably the trade for Rafer Alston got us to the finals.
Getting Ryan Anderson for Courtney Lee, Rafer Alston, and Tony Battie doesn’t seem too bad right now, either. Ryan is playing at an All Star level, and none of the other players are even close to producing at that level (if they are even in the league).
I will say, that when he misses, he misses BAD.
To continue on that, Courtney Lee was a really good pick as well considering where he was drafted
If the Magic must trade Dwight, Hedo better stay. He needs to retire a Magic.
by funny80sguy on Feb 18, 2012 11:14 AM EST up reply actions
Pietrus was a good signing. The way he played Dallas with Bass/Gortat.
He rebounded from the Donovan fiasco with the brilliant hiring of Stan. Personally I was very happy with Otis until last December. It seems since then he has gone into appease Howard mode which has been disastrous.
Where petulance happens
I'm also definitely for calling his bluff.
The trading options out there are so bad that that’s honestly a better call.
Also, it was hockey guy that drafted Dwight and Jameer, not Otis. Otis should’ve been fired last season.
I like to watch.
by MoveThoseChains on Feb 18, 2012 3:13 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
Call his bluff.
Howard has quite a list of teams he would like to be traded to. Let him walk and give up the extra 30 million dollars. The only way he gets to keep his max salary is to either earn it (by staying) or get it given to him as a parting gift via sign-and-trade. If he doesn’t want to earn it, then I’m content to start over. The new stadium, the so-called “House that Dwight Built”, this half-billion dollar palace, was a pretty big concession from fans to Howard. His attitude is starting to rub me the wrong way.
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