Lakers Land Dwight Howard

[benefactor]

5% chance Spurs beating the lakers (if la is healthy).

Doesn't matter...they can't beat OKC either.

The Spurs title years are over.

[Redshadows]

Well, this is how the new CBA works.

[MR-Clutch]

First seed just go so much more important

[Blackjack]

Diaw needs to keep eating, and hit a growth spurt.

[Juggity]

Orlando must be straight up tanking now. Can't imagine why they wouldn't have aimed for a sensible Bynum-Howard swap.

[MR-Clutch]

Must sign Oden....

[loveforthegame]

Who cares. Spurs have Bonner and Blair.

[Andthentherewas21]

Not that it is any consolation to us fans, but if Howard does resign in LA next season, they are going to be pretty much paying the rest of the league to play them given the progressive tax

[Spurtacus]

Who cares. Spurs have Bonner and Blair.

Drive for Five. Five years without a title because that ginger has been in the rotation.

[TDMVPDPOY]

cba lockout fight for parity has now become a parody...lol

so whats the purpose of the other 20 teams that has no chance of competing for a ring? might as well sign players meet the minimum team cap requirement and just collect the nba revenue...

[DeadlyDynasty]

Taking names of all the douchebags saying theyre giving up the nba. If they post next season they should be banned

[TDMVPDPOY]

cba lockout fight for parity has now become a parody...lol

so whats the purpose of the other 20 teams that has no chance of competing for a ring? might as well sign players meet the minimum team cap requirement and just collect the nba revenue...

[ElNono]

The worst part of this is that the last time the Lakers pulled a move like this, the Spurs knee-jerk reaction was to trade for Richard Jefferson...

[Andthentherewas21]

cba lockout fight for parity has now become a parody...lol

so whats the purpose of the other 20 teams that has no chance of competing for a ring? might as well sign players meet the minimum team cap requirement and just collect the nba revenue...

Pretty much, Holt is gunna get paid and Lakers and Brooklyn picking up the tab

[racm]

Might as well contract to 8 teams.

Can't wait for 10 straight rings in LAL

[024]

i wonder if vaughn signed off on this...

[Andthentherewas21]

i wonder if vaughn signed off on this...

Could have thrown us a bone and included Bonner in the trade somehow

[Andthentherewas21]

Just throwing this out there, are we completely sure this isn't a practical joke by the ORL front office? I mean seriously, Al Harrington, AA, and Vucevic for probably the best center and most dominant big-man in the game. Just saying.

[crc21209]

The more I look at this trade, the dumber it gets for Orlando.

-Letting D-Ho play out the season was a better option. If he walks, that's fine. You suck but you clear cap space and will have a couple high lottery picks. And there was always that 1% chance that he'd get confused again and sign another contract.

-Trade D-Ho to Houston for their best offer would have been better. I don't even know what their best offer was but I can guarantee you it'd be a lot better than locking in Danny Green, Jr. for $7.8 million per season over four years.

-Trade Howard for Bynum straight up. Bynum could bluff but with his knees a ticking time bomb he was going to sign an extension with any team.

-Those Nets offers were pretty "meh" but they were better than this BS.

-Even those early trade discussions that would have landed just expiring contracts and picks would have been better.

Orlando didn't do anything in this trade. They didn't clear cap room. They didn't shed bad contracts. They didn't get great assets. It's basically the worst possible trade that they could have made.

This. For all the talk about the Magic wanting young talent, clearing cap space, and getting draft picks...they didnt get ANY of those. They shed ONE bad contract in J-Richardson's, but then they took on the horrible contract of Afflalo. They also get Al Harrington whos on the down side of his career. Some "young talent" you got there. Orlando's GM had to have received death threats from someone in order to do a deal like this....

[TDMVPDPOY]

orl are in a worster position now that didnt gain them anything

shouldve just screw d12, fck him

who cares what his agent and the possibility of attracting future FA if dont sign with ORL, max contracts and dollar mounts speaks louder then what agents wanna collude

[TDMVPDPOY]

remember when he won the slam dunk with the superman bullshit, how the shaq/d12 arguments came up how his copyin shaq, didnt he say he didnt wanna live in shaqs shadow...lol what is he doin now?

[Russo21]

What were the Magic thinking? They have one of the best trade pieces in the NBA, DH12 who is by far the best centre in the NBA and that is all they got for him?

How can you have the best trade asset in the deal and come out far worse off? Lakers Nuggets and Sixers improved and Orlando got heaps worse. Unbelievable. Whoever signed off on this for the Magic must be fired. They could have done heaps heaps better.

[Andthentherewas21]

This. For all the talk about the Magic wanting young talent, clearing cap space, and getting draft picks...they didnt get ANY of those. They shed ONE bad contract in J-Richardson's, but then they took on the horrible contract of Afflalo. They also get Al Harrington whos on the down side of his career. Some "young talent" you got there. Orlando's GM had to have received death threats from someone in order to do a deal like this....

Some reports have Duhon and Earl Clark heading to Lakers as well. Still doesn't get them rid of Hedo though and they still just took on Harrington and AA.

[Relevancy]

remember when he won the slam dunk with the superman bullshit, how the shaq/d12 arguments came up how his copyin shaq, didnt he say he didnt wanna live in shaqs shadow...lol what is he doin now?

Who cares what people think? The Lakers only goal in mind is the championship buddy, you talk shit and shit but Dwight is gonna end up being a Laker and you can't do anything about it. Spurs don't stand a chance now, it makes me happy

[Russo21]

LMAO Magic. If this is the shit you are gonna pull you may as well sell your team and get the fuck out of the NBA

[Andthentherewas21]

What were the Magic thinking? They have one of the best trade pieces in the NBA, DH12 who is by far the best centre in the NBA and that is all they got for him?

How can you have the best trade asset in the deal and come out far worse off? Lakers Nuggets and Sixers improved and Orlando got heaps worse. Unbelievable. Whoever signed off on this for the Magic must be fired. They could have done heaps heaps better.

Otis Smith's revenge?

[TDMVPDPOY]

only way to get into d12 head now....is to hire that wife of his that was bared from mentioning his name to milk money....heck employ all 5 give them coutside seats and throw profanitys at him

[admiralfats]

this sucks. I hate the lakers. any time they decide to reload it just happens. timvp's right about the built-in advantage; it still blows and i get angry about it.

anyway ...orlando, congrats. arron afflaLOL

[Russo21]

Hack-A-Howard coming to a city near you..

[racm]

Pop gonna use De Colo to hack Dwight.

It makes sense now!