[ESPN] Sources: New trade offer in works (for Dwight Howard)

exactly

Morey needs to dicth Dwight, because if he doesnt resign it will take years to recover from this. And the Magic will benefit from us sucking, by taking our lottery picks

 

Great question.

 

The team is already blown up, his rebuilding started when 4/5 of the starting lineup was lost/traded. Even though I like this current squad and they will be fun to watch, they are still going to struggle to win games. That will put us in a position with our pick and the Toronto pick to add a few more lottery pieces to our current roster of young players. Pair that with the cap space, Morey has a lot to work with if the Howard trade doesn't happen.

 

No. If we rent Dwight Howard this upcoming season we'll probably make the playoffs and lose our 1st round pick to Atlanta (since they own the rights to it).

We would be in a position where, we would have no young players, no picks and a boat load of bad contracts. Just to watch Dwight leave in free agency...

 

Take it or leave

Martin, Patterson, Morris
draft rights to White
TOR pick, DAL pick, conditional HOU pick starting from 2015

for

Dwight + bad contracts.

 

Yep..if they dont take it, they will get nothing, and lose him for nothing

 

Exactly. The deal will be centered on the Toronto & Dallas draft picks. Any Houston pick would be far in the future and top 10 protected.

 

This would be fair

 

I can't believe that I'm saying this but I'm ok with saying **** it. I think we have the leverage.

 

I think we can still sign one other max player.

So its howard plus someone else max. aka 2 max guys. *As I understand it and could be wrong

 

Sign and trade Howard.

 

http://www.foxsportsflorida.com/07/...ing_magic.html?blockID=760450&feedID=3722

 

For once we have tall, talented players. Do not trade for a rental. Develop them, please.

 

Disagree. They're unproven, mid first round rookies. Stop knee jerking.

Trade for Howard, a proven superstar.

 

If Hakeem is the king, as your moniker says, then why don't you trust him to convince Dwight Howard to stay?

 

We have massive leverage. We are the only team in the league that can get Orlando out of most of their terrible contracts.

 

I agree. I wont be butt hurt if it doesnt go down...but this is Dwight Howard.

KM, Lamb, White, Jones, Morris, Patterson, and 2 first round picks. Done.

EDIT: If Morey plays hardball and makes Hennigan sweat, Im down with that too.

 

Not sure if this has been posted or not, or how reliable it is, but here is an article from an Orlando writer who thinks Dwight is going to Houston:
http://www.probasketballnews.com/news/sources-rockets-clear-front-runner-to-add-howard/
SOURCES: ROCKETS SHOULD REACH HOWARD DEAL NEXT WEEK

JULY 13, 2012 TONY MEJIA NO COMMENTS

ORLANDO – At this time next week, expect the Dwightmare to be over.

Sources that have been right all along on this — check the Twitter timeline starting Sunday, July 8 — believe the Houston Rockets will be able to finalize facilitation of the Orlando Magic’s coveted rebuilding strategy shortly after Chicago center Omer Asik’s situation is settled.

Asik was promised a three-year, $25 million offer sheet that Rockets GM Daryl Morey will make good on, which would affect just how many of the contracts new Magic GM Rob Hennigan wants to move can be absorbed.

Houston officially requested amnesty of Luis Scola on Friday afternoon, confirms ESPN’s Marc Stein. The offer sheet Jeremy Lin received later Friday is expected to be matched by the New York Knicks despite luxury tax implications.

The Magic are interested in clearing Jason Richardson, Glen Davis, Chris Duhon, Quentin Richardson’s and Hedo Turkoglu’s – contracts, likely in that order despite the fact Turkoglu is due the largest salary, 11.82 this season and a $12 million player option that will be taken in ’13-’14. The thought is his expiring deal could be an asset at that point.

Kevin Martin’s $12 million expiring contract will be the major piece the Rockets send over, but the Magic would be able to choose from a collection of prospects including local product Chandler Parsons, Patrick Patterson, Marcus Morris and 2012 draft picks Jeremy Lamb, Royce White and Terrence Jones to accompany him in the deal. Future draft picks will also move, with the lottery-guaranteed selection the Rockets are getting from Toronto in the Kyle Lowry deal being especially coveted.

If Chicago allows Asik to walk, sources say the steal could still be re-worked to appease Orlando enough to end the saga.

Houston’s motivation to deal hinges on making use of Martin’s sizeable contract and coming up with at the very least, a trade chip in Howard that can potentially net Andrew Bynum, Brook Lopez or assets from a team willing to rent Howard at the trade deadline.

That’s right, Howard could spend his year in limbo as a mercenary, fallout from a questionable decision to opt-in on March 15.

The Rockets would love nothing more than for him to warm up to H-town, where he’s got an existing friendly relationship with Hakeem Olajuwon and can learn a ton from head coach Kevin McHale. That would take some convincing, of course, but with an eject button in place, this isn’t as large a gamble as most would think.

Remember, Morey already traded Martin and Scola once, netting an aging Pau Gasol in a deal voided by Commissioner David Stern. Gasol would’ve been an upgrade, but wouldn’t have been as attractive a commodity as Howard will be, even as a rental coming off back surgery. Morey has been looking for an elite center since Yao Ming was forced to retire, and regardless of all the foolishness and drama in this Brooklyn-or-bust campaign, would be getting the game’s best. No one questions Howard’s professionalism once he hits the floor. After all, he aggravated his back injury in a memorable effort in Philadelphia where no one could question his commitment.

Again, this has been the most likely scenario since Sunday, when sources informed PBN that Howard wouldn’t end up with the Nets in spite of all the reports that a deal was imminent. On Monday, July 9, I reported via Twitter that the Rockets were “ready to throw more kindle into fire for Magic, further exhausting process for Magic, who obviously covet additional options.”

Sources say the Magic simply were never blown away by the tireless leg work the Nets put into making a deal work, balking at the prospect of bringing in Lopez as an anchor for the franchise. Lopez eventually re-signed with the Nets for four years, $61 million.

Howard was reportedly telling his circle that the Magic would get a deal done for him to get him to Brooklyn after a face-to-face meeting with Magic management where he again expressed his interest to help open the Barclays Center. Whatever assurances were given are unknown, but Hennigan has been consistent that nothing has come before doing “what’s best for the organization.”

Undoubtedly, the Magic heard the backlash from fans who watched all the reports whizzing through the air waves and social media which railed against the prospect of granting Howard’s wishes for a marginal package. Purely speculation, but that probably didn’t help Brooklyn’s cause.

Hennigan’s vision all along, outside of landing a comparable talent like Bynum, was to regain cap flexibility and add draft picks with new salary cap regulations coming into play in ’13-’14. Houston looks poised to help him get started on the right foot.

 

So everyone wants to keep our "superstar" rookies now? That's what it sounds like, ha.

 

So umm.. what happens if both the Knicks and Bulls were bluffing and don't match?