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****Dwight Howard News Update Threads****

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http://hangtime.blog...nd-will-leitch/ Jarrod N. Rudolph (Dwight's friend and mouthpiece) mentions Atlanta as potential suitor for Dwight at 18:50

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Over the last 20 minutes, Marc Spears from Yahoo! Sports reporting (via Twitter):

Marc J. Spears ‏@SpearsNBAYahoo

Rockets currently do not have a meeting set up with the Magic in regards to landing Dwight Howard, source tells Y! Sports.

Marc J. Spears ‏@SpearsNBAYahoo

Lakers pushing hard to land Magic center Dwight Howard & meeting with Magic today,sources tell Y! LAL wants DH contract extension commitment

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This from Hollinger in regards to the Nets ability to trade for Howard...

http://espn.go.com/blog/truehoop/post/_/id/47923/to-make-sense-of-nets-deal-look-south Looking for a reason why Kris Humphries is getting $12 million a year? Just look at the cap math from the Brooklyn Nets’ perspective... and then turn your gaze toward Florida. If they’re thinking about trading for Dwight Howard after Jan. 15, when Brook Lopez is trade eligible – and most certainly, they are – then signing Humphries to a short contract of this size makes all kinds of sense. The reason is that it allows the Nets to take back much bigger contracts from Orlando in a trade. Paying Humphries $12 million means that the combination of Humphries, Tyshawn Taylor and Reggie Evans can be used to take back $18.6 million in contracts from Orlando – which conveniently, is exactly enough to swallow the contracts of Orlando veterans Glen Davis, Jason Richardson, Chris Duhon and Quentin Richardson and clean the Magic’s books going forward. Do that, and then put Lopez and MarShon Brooks in a deal for Howard (again, just clearing enough salary from the New Jersey end to take back his salary from Orlando), throw in all the same draft picks New Jersey would give in the original deal, and the trade still works. In fact, it works better, since the Nets can swallow a bit more salary in this one than in the deal mooted over the summer. As for the fine print, Brooks almost certainly would be routed to a third team for another draft pick for Orlando, but the trade would be cap-legal regardless. Routing Humphries to a third team would prove more problematic, but again it would be cap-legal if it happened as long as all the goodies went back to the Magic. After all this, the Magic would have a signed frontcourt of Humphries and Lopez and, if they cut Hedo Turkoglu, have max cap space in 2013. Are there hang-ups to this strategy? Of course. First and most obviously, Howard may not be with the Magic in January. Second, even if he is, much depends on how well Lopez plays at the start of the season – the Magic are unlikely to be tempted unless he’s racking up 20-and-10s. And unless he wants to end up on bad team, it’s not clear to me how much incentive he has to play well. But it’s worth a shot, and Brooklyn has shown that the money is a secondary concern. They’d have a $90 million payroll after doing a deal like the one above, but they’d be a marketing powerhouse in their first year in Brooklyn – an investment that would likely pay itself back several times over. In the context of that, overpaying Humphries a few million seems like chump change.

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And so it continues:The Cavaliers would land Lakers center Andrew Bynum for a package of draft picks and veteran power forward Anderson Varejao, according to one league source. The Lakers would receive Howard for Bynum. The source said this was merely the framework of a deal being discussed.http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/8176960/sources-cleveland-cavaliers-trade-partner-potential-dwight-howard-deal

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The most relevant bit.

The Lakers are reportedly ready to make the trade, but first need assurance from Howard that he will commit to the team long-term. Sources say Howard is “excited” about the opportunity to play for the Lakers and will re-sign with the team when his contract expires at the end of the 2012-13 season.

- Jarrod can be reached at Jarrod.Rudolph@RealGM.com or on Twitter @JRudolphSports

http://basketball.realgm.com/wiretap/222486/Dwight_Howard_Ready_To_Commit_To_Extension_With_Lakers

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Dwight Howard Ready To Commit To Extension With Lakers

Jul 19, 2012 1:52 AM EDT

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Dwight Howard has long coveted the Brooklyn Nets as his next landing spot, but after a summer filled with daily rumors of four-team trade proposals, the six-time All-Star has moved on from his Big Apple infatuation and is locked in on joining the Los Angeles Lakers, sources tell RealGM.

The Lakers, Orlando Magic and Cleveland Cavaliers are reportedly discussing a three-team trade that would send Howard to the Lakers, Andrew Bynum to the Cavaliers, while the Magic would receive Anderson Varejao and multiple draft picks.

Howard has always been impressed with the Lakers’ winning tradition and intrigued with the off-court opportunities that come with playing in Los Angeles.

Questions about Howard's role with the team, however, became an early concern for the three-time NBA Defensive Player of the Year. Howard has since moved on from those concerns and is confident he will be an integral part of a team that will have a chance to compete immediately for a championship, according to sources that spoke with RealGM.

The Lakers are reportedly ready to make the trade, but first need assurance from Howard that he will commit to the team long-term. Sources say Howard is “excited” about the opportunity to play for the Lakers and will re-sign with the team when his contract expires at the end of the 2012-13 season.

- Jarrod can be reached at Jarrod.Rudolph@RealGM.com or on Twitter @JRudolphSports

ViaJarrod Rudolph/RealGM

Read more:http://basketball.realgm.com/news#ixzz214Eo2LcF

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Ferry is so overrated on this board. Orlando does not want Bynum and Cleveland can give even less than we can and we are just going to sit here and do nothing when a big fish is out there to be gotten.

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In an effort to avoid weeks / months / etc. of Dwight Howard discussion, speculation, etc. we are going to create two threads (1) for discussion of Dwight and (2) for news updates. Please don't create new topics on this as all this will do is create extra work for the moderators and annoy posters already sensitive to information overload on this issue.

The "news" thread is not intended for discussion - simply for posting of new articles, etc. for easy perusal of readers. The discussion thread is intended for all the comment, debate, etc.

Thanks for your help!

AHF / Dolfan

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Ferry is so overrated on this board. Orlando does not want Bynum and Cleveland can give even less than we can and we are just going to sit here and do nothing when a big fish is out there to be gotten.

Bottom line is Dwight doesn't want to be here and Orlando would prefer to trade him somewhere far away. It is not Ferry's fault on this one.
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