I know the Magic are playing this close to the vest.
While others do not have much faith in their front office, I do believe they know they have no shot of keeping Dwight Howard and will figure out a way to move him before then end up with nothing for him.
Dwight has dropped hint after hint that unless Magic win NBA Finals, he is taking his Superman cape (sorry Shaq) and flying out of Orlando.
“My thing is I want to win. It’s not something like I’m doing this for money. I win. I want to do it my way.”
“You know,” said Howard, “you look at a team like Boston and look at a team like LA who’s won . . . especially Boston. Man, those guys came together and they didn’t care who scored all the points. They had done all the individual stuff.
“You know, for me, I’ve done a lot of things individually, but I want a championship. All those accolades that I’ve got over the years, they mean a lot, but it’s just different watching teams hold up that trophy and knowing how hard you have to work to get it.
“They have the championship mentality,” he said of the Celts. “It means a lot. Like I said, I like the team. They play hard and they go after it, and that’s what I like.”
In general, I believe Dwight when he says it isn’t about the money, mainly because wherever he goes he is going to get paid and he has tons of endorsements, so he isn’t going to be hurting for cash.
The younger guys who have been around the league, know that they will be judge by championships or lack of championships, so they are trying to get to the right spot to make that happen.
One thing is for sure.
DWIGHT GONE!!!!!!