After several months of trying to trade Dwight Howard, Orlando Magic general manager Rob Hennigan called the All-Star center Wednesday night to see if he'd reconsider giving him and the Magic's new regime a chance to keep him in Orlando, a source close to Howard said.
Hennigan's call came several hours after the Brooklyn Nets, the team to which Howard asked Hennigan to trade him, made a futile last-gasp attempt to deal for him before the Charlotte Bobcats could sign one of the Nets' key trade chips, center Brook Lopez, to an offer sheet.
Hennigan, the source said, based his plea on the fact that he was new to the organization and had not been party to the issues that drove Howard to make his trade request.
Team president Alex Martins, who also was on the call, the source said, made a similar plea to Howard last winter when he took control of basketball decisions over GM Otis Smith and coach Stan Van Gundy.
Howard was not willing to change his stance, the source said.
"I already heard that from the other guy on the phone," said Howard, according to the source.
This new GM is even worse than Otis Smith
At least Otis was willing to give Dwight what he wanted and move on, tbh....
Jesus ing Christ this is funnier than comedy.
Hnnig
This reminds me of the hot girl breaking up with her man and then her man saying: "Ok but before you leave can we please have butt sex one more time."
I think they are just going to let Dwight walk, this isn't going anywhere
This sets a precedent for the Magic: Now they just look weak and this regime will always be taken with a grain of salt and pushed around in future negotiations with stars and lesser echelon players.
Stupid... why? Dump his ass.
Magic had the best offer they could get and let it slip away.
sons hopefully on opening night all of the fans boo and throw bottles at Howard. I would LOL if he got knocked out and had a career ending injury by flying bottles from crazy fans.
baby please take me back. I promise I'll change this time
Only the idiots in Orlando could negotiate trade offers for Dwight Howard down instead of up, tbh...
Magic had the best offer they could get and let it slip away.
tbh, Orlando should take a look at what Utah did with DWill and ship Dwight's ass out...
How do you even start the season with all this BS hanging around?
DH will stay in orlando or at least they'll prompt a SnT deal for him come 13' summer meaning they ain't letting him walk free w/o nothing returned, DH aint walking as a FA because he'd suffer a significant paycut if he chose to leave as a FA. ain't leaving the extra 25m on table and if he was really desperate to leave, he should've NEVER opted in
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