He's so strong he can lift an entire CITY?! And crush it so it's so small it can fit underneath a single bus?! And he did this MORE THAN ONCE?! Screw this man--he's no basketball player, he's a bloody SUPERVILLAIN! Get out the high-tech weaponry and evacuate the survivors! We have a GLOBAL THREAT ON OUR HANDS!!! ... But seriously, that is NOT what "literally" means.
did you steal that from one of the other Howard thread? seems like that would have been a great place to stash your latest toilet bowl flash of brilliance
If Dwight Howard is strong enough to literally throw the city of houston under a bus, I'd be willing to trade our whole roster, Daryl Morey, Kevin Mchale, DD's firstborn son, Bimathug's brain, and every single of one of Doc Rocket's cryptic post through 2014.
It really annoys me when people make a poll acting like they have a serious question and make the options incredibly biased. It would be like me asking you: Is the Jazz your favorite Nba team? A) Yes of course B) No I like the Spurs instead. Basically unless someone perfectly agrees with you there is no good answer.
can someone point me to a direct quote where Howard has explicitly belittled Houston? I think some of you really need to get a grip on where you are pulling your information from. i.e, a sensationalist journalism site with an obvious bent towards major markets probably isn't the best source of unbiast information. disney is just trying to sell you kids a story... bottom line: you trade for Howard, you have his Bird Rights and can offer him the best offer (in the ballpark of $25MM). money talks
I picked NO but I do not feel disrespected. You sir have created a biased poll. DH has no leverage whatsoever. If we get him, which is highly likely. He will NOT be walking away.
Howard used to be my favorite NBA player. I envisioned him as our new Dream, taking us to the promised land. He has turned into a Nightmare. Always whining, changing his mind, betraying his coach, etc. Plus, back issues and basketball just don't go together. Many of us know from first hand experience. I think it is time to move on. However, Asik was not what I had in mind. Just hope the Bulls match, but I don't see how they can.
I would love Howard, as long as he would be opened to staying here. If not, I want no part in his circus.
No guarantee he stays, if we don't have another superstar he won't stay, a big reason why he wants out of Orlando. I don't think we get Dwight and Deron. And if we get him and struggle he probably asks for a trade at deadline or leaves in free agency in 2013 offseason.
I don't think that word means what you think it means. Look, it's real easy. Mr. Alexander is completely opposed to tanking. Losing games makes him frowny-face sad sad. Until he changes his mind or sells the team, the most effective route to acquiring superstars is not available to us. No team in the world will give up a happy superstar in his prime. That means if you want one, you have two options. You can trade for a diva who's causing enough problems on his team that they're willing to give up the single most valuable commodity in basketball (a la Carmelo, D-Will, Howard, etc.) or you can have someone old and broke down. We could have ourselves a nice Pau Gasol or Joe Johnson, but I suspect that's not what you want. Even teams with great assets can't trade for Lebron or Durant. The only players we can get will have warts. The question you have to answer is whether you want those warts in the locker room or on the court. He's a top-five player in the prime of his career. He can bluster all he likes, but there's a fair chance he won't leave all that money on the table, and he's the best of the bad options we have available.
I'm with ya coach, but not because I think he's a diva. Diva or not he's IMHO the 2nd or 3rd best player in the league. No, I don't want him because of two simple reasons: 1. He said doesn't want to go to Houston 2. He's coming of injury. LOL why are we gonna get someone who might leave us empty handed after 1 year? WTF? Secondly, dude's coming of injury. He might spend the year beasting, go down after the season Yao Ming style, and then leave us high and dry the next. LOL, do we really want to be NJ, held hostage by a superstar? C'mon now. No to Dwight.
Howard knows about the money now. Yet, he still gets upset when he hears about making that money here. If that is not belittling enough for you, then you are one heck of a pain freak.
Look, Peter, i understand that you like Howard, but trying to get me to respond negatively to your run-on posts won't help your argument one bit. Try looking at the poll results and you will see that, surprisingly, you are one of very few.
It doesn't really matter how i used the word literally in this case because when you read it, you knew exactly what i meant. You wouldn't give me the grammar lesson if you agreed with me.
We are in the Twilight Zone with Howard. Our best chance to acquire him was on draft day. Then the next best chance was before July 1. Now...we are in the Twilight Zone. Anything can happen and practically everything you can imagine will happen in the Dwight Howard Saga between now and next Wednesday. And then, most likely, it will be all over but the crying. He'll either be here or somewhere else, most likely not Orlando, and the talks of acquiring him here will cease. But until then, we carry on, in the Twilight Zone. Why the Twilight Zone? Because Dwight is acting like a total loon, teams like GS are pulling out of trade talks, and teams like Brooklyn are contemplating bringing in major salary, making signing him in the next offseason not an option, and guys like DWill are flopping around like a fish in the bottom of a boat, gasping for some water in their fins, not knowing which direction to turn, not knowing whether to wait for Dwight or stake their claim to a destination and cross their fingers that Dwight doesn't show up across town or across the state from them, sucking the life out of them because he winds up on the best team. And the problem is, the longer we go in the Twilight Zone, the more likely the offers are to dissapate for Dwight....which means.....as crazy as this seems....the more likely Hennigan is to just play this thing out and not trade Dwight. Yep, we're staring another train wreck right in the eyes, watching it coming down the tracks from a hundred miles away.....the possibility of Dwight being in a Magic uni for the start of the season. While all the "divorce is imminent" talks go on, don't be surprised if Dwight is sitting there in the blue and whites come Nov 1. That's why it's the Twilight Zone my friends. The longer this thing goes the more likely he is to be traded. But...the longer this thing goes the more like the totally absurd and unimaginable happens...he stays in Orlando, at least until the trade deadline. Once July 11 gets here, Morey is going to start making his moves. He's not going to sit here all summer waiting for a Dwight trade to unfold. There will have to be some definiteness to trade talks to hold up his other moves. Right now, the whole league is waiting. I have been surprised at Deron's passiveness. Dude just won't commit. As much yacking as he has done over the last week about Brooklyn, he should have already made a definite commitment. But he hasn't. That tells me he's waiting for Dwight. Like it or not, he's waiting for Dwight. We're just gonna have to ride this thing out for the next 10 days.`
Now that the Nets are trading for Joe Johnson and have already re-signed Gerald Wallace, when Deron stays a Net... it would give us the upper hand and would be the perfect time to trade for him using all our assets... Even if he still wants to be a Net while in Houston, they would have no cap room whatsoever to be able to offer Dwight. I feel like one way or another Dwight will become a Rocket. And more than likely stay one.
