Trade Demands

These last few blogs have been real basketball oriented, I swear that'll change as the year goes on. The 3 best basketball moments in my opinion are March Madness, The NBA playoffs and the NBA trade deadline. Because of the lockout the deadline was pushed back and runs around the time of college basketball's big tournament. For me excitement is building, there are big names on the market and teams in position to compete. Alot of questions and rumors on pushed, none of which actually ever happens but once in awhile a sleeper trade or blockbuster deal goes through. This year the biggest name on the market is Dwight Howard the only problem is he isn't technically on the market. Dwight Howard is in the last year of his deal with the Orlando Magic unless he signs an extension or use his player option clause to come back one last year, if not he will become a free agent able to sign with any team he wants leaving Orlando with the biggest void they had since Shaq's leaving. This happens often, every year a perennial all star in the last year of his contract puts his team in a position to keep their all star and risk him leaving and getting nothing for him or trade him and try to get some value. Kobe and the Lakers went through it and he opted to stay whereas Lebron and Bosh with the Cavs and Raptors recently went through it and took their talent to south beach with Cleveland and Toronto getting nothing. Sometimes teams pick to trade their all star like when the Lakers traded Shaq or when Carmelo was traded by Denver who knew Melo was on his way out to sign with the Knicks. Now it's the Magic time again the first being was with Shaq, now with Dwight Howard. Howard has told the Magic he would like to stay in Orlando but that's only after requesting to be traded to the new Brooklyn nets. Media people all talk about how indecisive Dwight is and how easily influenced he has been and honestly I kind of see it. In this NBA, players are lobbying to join forces to make super teams such as the Celtics and Miami. Both Dwight Howard and the Magic knows this and both have to protect their respective Shields. The Magic started Tuesday March 13 trying to acquire Monta Ellis from the Golden State Warriors to entice Howard to stay but by the end of the day Ellis was traded to the Milwaukee Bucks. Shortly after the game Tuesday night Dwight in an interview stated He wanted to stay the year and that the Magic would just have to "roll the dice". I don't want to interpret what he means by that, but what does he mean? Me personally I woulda traded him mid interview. Why wait and risk him leaving? Find the best deal for the Magic no matter what team it is and let Dwight worry about going to the nets on his own time. Then this morning reports started the day off starting that Howard would come back next year then later that day he reportedly backed away from that statement. Trade deadline is Thursday at 12:00 pm until then Dwight Howard has to be on the market. Other names on the market include Lakers Pau Gasol, Minnesota's Michael Beasley, Bulls Loul Deng, and of course all the little who have to get thrown in for teams to dump and match up contracts. I personally want to see the Bulls get Pau Gasol even if it cost Deng and Boozer. I also want to see Miami get a real point guard like Kirk Hinrich or Mo Williams who can run an offense and play defense. I don't expect none of that to happen but up until 12 pm I could hope. Too many teams need to make moves and gear up for the playoff run so for the next few hours let the chaos run wild.

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