Magic Posturing About Keeping Dwight Howard Until Feb. 2013?

I think they'll make SOME offer, much like they did last deadline. If Dwight is out there, the Rockets will always have some interest. But unless he outright expresses interest in re-signing in Houston (doubtful), the peak offer will come this summer, for the reasons meh stated. Hennigan knows that, too.

 

If we got Dwight now, we could trade him to the net on Feb if he decided not to stay. If we got Dwight on Feb he might simply just walk away when the contract ended.

It would be quite impossible to persuade Dwight to stay in a month.

We probably won't have the cap flexibility at that time.

 

Trading Dwight on Feb will be a true rental.... =___=

 

That's just what we need here - an added layer of offseason complexity.

 

1. it wouldn't look bad for the franchise going forward if we get the 7th seed adding dwight at mid-season. we'd still have some young, cheap guys with room to grow, at least a draft pick or two left to add players, and some cap space going forward (though how much would depend on the contracts we have to absorb). don't see how that's much worse than atlanta or dallas when it comes time for free agency.

2. i honestly don't know whether it would be feasible cap-wise to pull a trade mid-season, but if we could have done it last year, i don't see why we can't do it this year. but please correct me if i'm wrong.

3 and 4 are true to an extent, but i don't think we'd flip dwight mid-season anyway unless we got an unequivocal message that he wasn't coming back no matter what, and i don't see why he would totally foreclose the option of an extra 30 mil. hell, it might be an advantage (of sorts) to get him at the deadline in that he'll lose the ability to publicly push for another trade.

as for 4, getting dwight for the assets currently on the table now is a great deal, as is basically any deal for a both-ends-of-the-court superstar. summer league performance aside, we shouldn't leap to the conclusion that our rookies will outperform their draft slots. so yeah, with a mid-season trade, the risk for us goes up somewhat, the deal becomes less attractive to us and more attractive to the magic, but it still redounds to our benefit, so we probably pull the trigger.

 

I think we'd offer SOMETHING for Dwight, just not nearly as much. And that's a problem Hennigan will face with every team. He needs to stop being an idiot and trade Howard now.

 

It isn't really a bad decision for magic, but definitely it is not in our favour.

 

What? How?

 

It's a terrible decision for the Magic to wait. Virtually No one will trade for him, and will take a longer time for the Magic to rebuild when he leaves.

 

Well, there we disagree... I think it is a bad decision for the Magic. If they wait till the deadline odds are they get saddled with Andrew Bynum's f***ed up knees or Brook Lopez on a max contract. Our offer is just plain better than that, and by waiting to trade it, they lose our offer--or at least greatly diminish it.

 

Agreed. also what if for some reason Brook Lopez has a major injury,
Also if hes waiting to evaluate our rookies, what if one becomes an immediate all- star, is he sure that Morey will pull the trigger than..

He has to deal him now, or risk losing him for close to nothing...

 

Again Magic doesn't seem to value our offer much better than the Net's one, otherwise they wouldn't take the Net's one in the beginner. Magic scouts probably believe Lopez has much higher upside than any of our rooks. The value difference to them could be less 10m. LeBron departure costed Cavaliers more than a hundred million in franchise's value, and it is logical to expect that Magic' value will drop about the same amount if DH12 gets traded. Magic now is simply using a 10 mil to buy a chance to save 100 mil.

 

If they thought Brook Lopez had a higher upside, they might have traded for him, but those first round picks coming along with Lopez would have been late picks as Brooklyn would be a playoff team. They want to build through the draft with top picks, which is why they leveraged Brooklyn against us to raise our offer, because they LOVE our assets.

 

Yep, I can understand, but the point is that our rooks still haven't proven himself in the league.

 

Ummm.....you have it backwards. If they wanted Lopez, they would have just traded for him when they had the chance. Nobody believes in Lopez's upside....not even the Nets. They simply had no choice.

 

That doesn't matter. Their upside does, which Orlando seems to LOVE. Rockets didn't pick all of them for theirselves.

 

There would have been a 3 teams trade, but Cavaliers later withdrawn themselves and wasn't willing to take the bad contracts.

 

It was a made deal, but Cavaliers later withdrawn. I have been follow all the nightmare's news =_=|||

 

This should tell us that if Dwight wants to go to Lakers or whoever else at this point he will go there... The trade to the nets was about to go down.

 

No it wasn't. Cleveland never had real interest, and Orlando never had real interest in Brooklyn's package.