Dwight Howard will hit free agency after 2012-2013.

Written by  //  July 20, 2012  //  NBA  //  3 Comments

This thing with Orlando Magic center Dwight Howard has NBA GMs plucking at sunflowers mumbling ‘he wants me, he wants me not.’

The last salvo from his camp to ESPN while definitive in tone does nothing to ease either the rumors or the speculation of what is going on behind closed doors.

“Dwight’s position has remained unchanged since the end of this past season,” said Dan Fegan of LaGardere Unlimited. “He fully intends to explore free agency at the end of next season, regardless of what team trades for him, including Brooklyn.”

Brooklyn? Now that was a petty shot wasn’t it?

Is it Fegan, Howard or both that perhaps feels like a jilted bride at the altar after the Nets presumably moved on from the prospect of trading for Howard and signed Brook Lopez to a sizeable contract?

To more or less state that Dwight Howard never planned on signing a long-term deal if he ended up in Brooklyn this season is just…petty.

Especially in light of the fact that the Nets did what they could within reason to get it done and that it was the Magic and their ridiculous asking price that crippled this and certainly several other deals that could have gotten done.

Anyway, the dig at the Nets was just the icing of the cake to beat down the real rumor that Howard would be happy to re-up with the Lakers if traded there.

Now that it appears that Howard won’t get to play for love his next stop is playing for the money. The rules simply don’t play out for him financially to resign with any team this season.

If you could not play where you wanted to play, would you turn down a shot at a five-year deal that could play up to $108 million?

What has totally been somewhat swept under the rug is that Howard is still in the recovery process of a destructive back injury.

I know if I am the Lakers and I am considering trading Andrew Bynum for Howard that has to be somewhere in the front of my mind.

Seriously.

Twitt

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  • http://yardbarker.com kevin

    Cavaliers Credtits: • Miami trades a first round pick in 2013-2015 (top 10 protected in 2013-2014, unprotected in 2015) to Cleveland as part of the LeBron James trade. • Miami trades a first round pick in 2015-2017 (top 10 protected in 2015-2016, unprotected in 2017) to Cleveland as part of the LeBron James trade. • Minnesota trades a 2013 second round pick to Cleveland as part of the Delonte West/Ramon Sessions trade. Pick may be conveyed to Boston as part of the Luke Harangody trade. • Orlando trades a 2013 second round pick to Cleveland as part of the Justin Harper trade. • Sacramento trades a 2012 first round pick (lottery protected in 2012, top 13 protected in 2013, top 12 protected in 2014, top 10 protected from 2015-2017) to Cleveland as part of the JJ Hickson/Omri Casspi trade. If pick is not conveyed by 2016, Sacramento trades a 2017 second round pick (56-60 protected) to Cleveland. • Orlando trades a 2014 second round pick to Cleveland as part of the Justin Harper trade. • Cavs have the option to swap the less favorable of their 2013 first round pick and Miami’s 2013 first round pick with the Lakers 2013 first round pick, as part of the Ramon Sessions trade. • Cleveland receives the Lakers’ 2012 first round pick (lottery protected) as part of Ramon Sessions trade. kings pick will be lottery,miami’s pick will be lottery when james can opt out in 2014,and unfortunitly wade’s knees are bad and he is getting older.for this trade as well cavs picks and other teams picks…plus cleveland can clear cap space taking on bad contracts. no other team can do anymore for you. you have to start over and rebuild through the draft and need cap space for future free agents. in addition your getting a quality player who can give you hustle,energy and no one rebounds better on the offensive glass,dives and keeps balls alive for second chances.also would have a chance to trade varejao for other draft picks. the real benifit is draft picks and clearing cap space. this is way more then cavs got for losing there franchise player. your not going to get any better draft pick package in any deal.when your trading a top 5 player your never getting equal value. but if you look at it like your rebuilding through the draft.then the more picks and better picks you can get while freeing cap space is best for your team at this point. if cleveland could of got this deal when we lost our guy it would of made us rebuild faster.you dont want to build a team around lopez a seven footer who cant rebound. you need young guys through the draft.harden,urbaka,dang,terrance jones,lamb,an royce white- none of these our mega super stars.you can get them in the draft. parker was picked in bottom of draft.some of cavs draft picks can be lottery or high picks. cavs got a better package of picks then anyone. send howard to L.A……L.A. send us bynum…….you can have a mountain of picks to rebuild plus varejae which you can trade for more picks.
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    • Hugo Morales

      Sick of this shit already

  • David

    I could not agree more with everything the author of this piece stated — it echoes my sentiments perfectly.

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