Danny Nowell

Author's details

Name: Danny Nowell
Date registered: February 26, 2011

Latest posts

  1. The great debate between Dwight Howard and Shaquille O’Neal — August 31, 2012
  2. Magic Basketball Weekly: On the supremacy of pie among desserts — July 13, 2012
  3. The Stan Van Gundy experience — May 24, 2012
  4. Orlando searching for answers on offense — May 1, 2012
  5. HoopIdea: On tanking and basketball ideologies — April 27, 2012

Most commented posts

  1. A weird Game 1 loss for the Orlando Magic — 23 comments
  2. Magic Basketball Weekly: Regrettably watching the Super Bowl — 20 comments
  3. Getting a grip on the Magic’s future — 20 comments
  4. What went wrong for the Orlando Magic, Part II — 19 comments
  5. Keeping Dwight Howard around — 11 comments

Author's posts listings

Jan 27

Magic Basketball Weekly: Beer and basketball

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It’s time to have a society intervention, friends. A sickness has blossomed into an epidemic, and unless we do something, it may become a permanent problem. I’m talking about “S**t Girls Say” and all of the spinoff videos that have forced me to unsubscribe to otherwise decent friends on Facebook. The first one, very funny. …

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Jan 26

When chemistry and mental toughness collide

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AP Photo/Charles Krupa Ah, last week, ‘twas so very long ago. Back in those distant, sunnier times, the Magic were as foals, tottering around in the warming naivete of the new season, kicking their legs and just beginning to grasp their potential as thoroughbreds. It was in those carefree days that J.J. Redick told the …

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Jan 20

Magic Basketball Weekly: Let’s talk about the Magic

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Photo by Rocky Widner/NBAE via Getty Images Today is a happy day for me, the culmination of a dream I’ve had lo these many weeks. Or two weeks. This is the week, dear readers, when you stepped up to the plate and offered me not two, not even three, but no fewer than FIVE emails …

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Jan 18

Keeping Dwight Howard around

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AP Photo/John Raoux Well, here we are. The Magic are winning, and there is no end in sight to the Dwight Howard saga. In some ways, this was the least likely scenario, as it sure seemed as if Orlando’s roster and Dwight’s disposition would make this season like getting a root canal. Such was my …

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Jan 13

Magic Basketball Weekly: Hack-a-Dwight and Mark Jackson

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AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez Every morning on my way to work I listen to this awful local radio show called Bob and the Showgram. I think every town has one of these shows, where some fat-sounding man alternately wheezes and yells into a microphone while slack-jawed cronies occasionally pipe in with nonsense. It’s racist, homophobic, …

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Jan 12

The thing about Jameer Nelson

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Photo by Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images If you’ve followed Orlando’s season to this point, it’s been impossible to miss the coverage of Jameer Nelson’s slump. Certainly his poor play has been noticeable on the court, but even more striking has been the differences in reaction he inspires. Some observers look at Jameer and see a solid …

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Jan 06

Magic Basketball Weekly: Sloths and the Nuggets

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Sloths are my favorite animal. They have been for years. Science has shown them to be both the cutest and most bro-some of all God’s creatures. Let me hit you with some sloth facts: They grow moss on them, because they chill so hard. Sometimes, if their babies fall out of a tree or something, …

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Jan 04

Magic Basketball needs your help

We’re about to start doing a new recurring feature here at MBN, something a little more free-flowing than we sometimes do, and something we want you to contribute to. Every Friday, I’ll be doing a weekly roundup type deal (name TBD), and as part of it, I want y’all to email me questions or concerns …

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Jan 03

Dealing with an organizational identity crisis

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Photo by Fernando Medina/NBAE via Getty Images Through the first six games of the season, the Magic have shown themselves to be a team of poles and contrasts. There have been stretches, like the comeback win over the Raptors or the second quarter in the loss against Detroit, when the Magic seem to have rediscovered …

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