http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/8...dwight-howard-says-only-wants-traded-one-team Screw Howard. Funniest part of the article that I didn't post: "I never used the word blackmail in reference to any of my dealings with the Magic," Howard told Yahoo! Sports. "I never said that. It's defamatory and it's inaccurate. I know what blackmail means and any report that I used the term incorrectly is inaccurate." So does that mean that he used the term 'blackmail' correctly, somewhere? lolHoward.
If we get him, where is he going to go next year? Brooklyn is going to need to re-sign Lopez, Wallace, Deron, and even Kidd. Then other FAs. That is all their cap room. His chance to leave was this off-season, and he blew it like an impulse thinker. Fantastic job, Dwight. Cards are no longer in your hands. Opt out next year, where are you going to go, seriously?
So if he were to be traded to Brooklyn, who do they give up? Lopez, Brooks, our lottery protected pick and theirs, what else do they have?
The Nets are also posturing by openly going after Joe Johnson. Orlando has all the trading leverage, and the Nets are making it known that they're tired of dealing with them. Either take what they have on the table for Dwight or they'll go after other opportunities to build around Deron Williams.
It's possible that the Nets know they can get him for less money if he comes via Free Agency, and maybe not offering the best trade package possible for Dwight. The Nets have their best interest ahead of his. Dwight is an idiot.
I've yet to hear one plausible trade scenario the Nets could put together before Deron Williams becomes a Maverick. They've got a combined ~$14M of "tradeable" salary on the books, Wallace can't be traded in a package yet, I'm fairly sure Lopez can't be S&T'ed within a bigger package for Dwight (only as a separate deal for Turk), and their ability to send a massive TE is limited by the cap holds of Williams, Lopez, Humphries, etc. And as stated, and the Knicks demonstrated....why empty out everything you have to trade for a guy that's openly saying he'll sign (for less!) as a UFA next summer? Orlando is going to do what's best for Orlando - and if Houston (or Portland or LA) doesn't care that he's a one year rental, they'll pull the trigger.
You really think he's going to walk away from an extra 50 million just because he wants to play for the Nets? Uh huh, yeah.
Do you have a link to where he says that? Also we know his word meanings nothing, he flip flops too much. Would he really give up money & an extra year of max money to join Brooklyn that bad? I dont see it
He is FULL OF **** !!!! He does not want to lose out on the money, if I were Orlando I would ignore everything that Prima donna says and take their best deal. If he was traded to Houston, Morey could lay out a full extension and say take it or leave it. Dwight has already proven that he blinks.... DD
If we can acquire Dwight, do so. Not only is he full of ****, but when he goes into next off-season, opts out and thinks he's a free man with the Bobcats as one of the few suitors, he'll see why. Teams won't have cap room next season...the Mavericks, the Nets, the Blazers, the Pacers, all these teams that are somewhat more viable than the Rockets. They won't have cap room. Yesterday, I said no to Dwight, but if you look at the specifics of the situation. He'll have to remain here by default; no comparable suitor AND much more money.
What if he signed our extension then demanded a trade? If we don't trade him, he fakes a back injury and its out...
Dwight, for all his indecision and pmima donna ways, is a far worse prick than Lebron ever was, and deserves more scorn than LBJ ever received for his ill-advised charity TV show.
Then there is always someone willing to trade for him if he comes with a multi-year contract in hand. The longer this takes, the fewer teams that will have the cap space next year to accommodate his wishes....and like others have said, no way he leaves that much money on the table to go to his preferred destination. I'm still not sure I want him, but I have a problem with prima-donnas with back issues....had enough of that with Mcgrady.
I have a gut feeling Howard stays in Orlando and prolongs this fiasco yet another season. Williams will either leave for Dallas or Joe Johnson will hog up all of the Nets' cap room. I don't understand why Deron doesn't tell the Nets that he'll take a maximum salary for one year and have them resign him and bring in Howard next offseason. He'd probably have to wait a year for Howard to get to Dallas- what's the difference if he's in Brooklyn? If Howard is as dead set as he says he is (and he very well may not be) then it doesn't matter if Howard gets traded.
Thats an old paradigm. In the days before the internet and players being known all over the country/world due to coverage from cable sports...you wanted to go to big markets to get an advertisers attention. These days, if you are a star, it doesnt really matter where you are, the big worldwide companies like Adidas/NIKE/Reebok/Gatorade/whatever will tap you for commercials if they want you no matter where you play. Durant is in tons of commercials and he plays in freaking OKC. Basically, if you are marketable, they will come to you.
