Via David Baumann of Bright House Sports Network: I can confirm Bob Vander Weide is retiring as Magic CEO, Alex Martins will be promoted. According to Baumann and other local media outlets, Vander Weide made a late-night phone call to Dwight Howard and may have been intoxicated while doing so. Vander Weide confirmed that he …
Monthly Archive: December 2011
Dec 06
Dwight Howard and the Bulls
Photo by Gregory Shamus/Getty Images Via Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! Sports: For now, it is Paul on the market. Howard’s on deck. The New Jersey Nets will have a package of Brook Lopez and picks available for the Magic, enticing Howard with Deron Williams and a new Brooklyn arena to call his own. What’s more, …
Dec 05
Monday’s Magic Word
Josh Robbins of the Orlando Sentinel: “Parsing a general manager’s words to find hidden meaning can be a dangerous undertaking, but in this case, I think the point is obvious. Whether the team decides to “amnesty” Gilbert Arenas or Hedo Turkoglu could hinge on what Dwight Howard tells the organization about his long-term plans. Don’t …
Dec 05
Dwight Howard and the Lakers
Photo by Andrew D. Bernstein/NBAE via Getty Images Via Andy Kamenetzky of ESPN Los Angeles: Turns out, Barnes buys the chatter about Howard’s desire to don purple and gold, because he’s heard the same from a pretty reliable source: Dwight Howard. “You know, I’ve been hearing [rumors about] Dwight,” acknowledged Barnes. “I’ve been hearing [rumors …
Dec 02
Friday’s Magic Word
Brian Schmitz of the Orlando Sentinel: “Paul gave New Orleans a hint last summer when he floated a trial balloon, basically trying to nudge the Hornets into dealing him. This time, Paul and his agent apparently aren’t wasting any time flying balloons, alerting the Hornets that he won’t sign an extension and they should get …
Dec 02
3-on-3 roundtable: An uncertain future
Photo by Sam Greenwood/Getty Images Dwight this. Dwight that. Needless to say, there’s been a lot of Dwight Howard talk already and the season hasn’t even started yet. Magic fans better get used to it because things are going to be like this for the foreseeable future until Howard decides on his future. In the …
Dec 02
Embracing uncertainty
Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images There’s not a good way to introduce this season for the Magic, because you already know all the things that one might say. The elephant in the room has been trumpeting his trunk for three seasons now, and the second we heard that a new CBA was forthcoming, Orlando …
Dec 02
Chris Paul and a Hail Mary pass
Photo by Layne Murdoch/NBAE via Getty Images Via Marc Stein of ESPN.com: A growing number of [NBA executives] starting to believe that Magic will indeed give strong consideration to doing Dwight deal before season starts. Rather than getting knee-deep in opt-out, opt-in, sign-and-trade, or extend-and-trade scenarios, let’s get right to the point. That’s what NBA …
Dec 02
The potential awkwardness of All-Star weekend
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by Nate Drexler
at 12:00 pmPhoto by Noel Vasquez/Getty Images Two summers ago I moved back to St. Louis where I had spent the first twenty something years of my life. To my surprise, the MLB All-Star Game was scheduled to be played at Busch Stadium. While it wasn’t the Busch Stadium that I had grown up going to, I …
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