Official Speculation Thread (Pt.XLI Off-Season Edition)

[Orlando Tragic]

Larry Ridley ‏@mrlarryridley
Dwight relative told me last night D12 "will start year in Orlando, then get traded to Nets by Feb" watch @WESH at 6&11 #Orlando #Magic #NBA

Remember Dwight's inner circle also said a deal with the Nets was "imminent" then Rob came out and said the Net's have nothing and no deal would happen lmao.

So the trade that sucked now is going to be better in February???

[BelgianMagic]

I think this is how Dwight('s people) wants things to happen:

August:

"I wanna stay. I love the city & the fans, don't believe what they say"

February:

Adrian Wojnarowski. @WojYahooNBA
Dwight Howard has again requested to be traded to the Brooklyn Nets, sources tell Y! Sports

[Tayswagzzz]

My prediction: We hold on to Dwight as long as we can to try and keep him. If he re-signs with us, we get him help. If we still wants to go, we trade him to the Lakers for Bynum. I don't see Rich Devos being happy with a rebuild. So we go all out with Howard or Bynum. Whichever we end up with.

[Howard Mass]

Dwight is not going to Orlando.

Hennigan will deal him before the season but will wait for the best deal.

I do hope that is Houston.

[Grady1train]

My prediction: We hold on to Dwight as long as we can to try and keep him. If he re-signs with us, we get him help. If we still wants to go, we trade him to the Lakers for Bynum. I don't see Rich Devos being happy with a rebuild. So we go all out with Howard or Bynum. Whichever we end up with.

Rich Devos may not be happy with a rebuild, but he's about to have one come the end of this season if anything in regards to Dwight desiring to explore free agency is true.

[Def Swami]

Tony Mejia ‏@TonyMejiaNBA
Donatas Motiejunas & Jeremy Lamb were also named Summer League All-Stars, as were fellow rooks Lillard, John Henson, Brad Beal, Jae Crowder.

[Optimus_Steel]

I think the board should automatically put green font to twitter rumors.

[kasedafk_1]

LoL shaq needs to shut his fat ass up...

[tiderulz]

Larry Ridley ‏@mrlarryridley
Dwight relative told me last night D12 "will start year in Orlando, then get traded to Nets by Feb" watch @WESH at 6&11 #Orlando #Magic #NBA

[MrOrlando]

I'm praying that Dwight ends up in Houston, and the Orlando isn't asking so much that the Rockets back out of wanting Dwight.

I'm in love with the thought of having those (Lamb/Donatas) players potentially on the team (If available in that combination), and some good draft picks. We need to re-build, and we can make a turn around in the next 3 or so seasons. I'm patient, I can wait.

[TDJacksonville]

Larry Ridley ‏@mrlarryridley
Dwight relative told me last night D12 "will start year in Orlando, then get traded to Nets by Feb" watch @WESH at 6&11 #Orlando #Magic #NBA

Fegan at his best

[Howard Mass]

Who cares what Shaq and a Dwight family friend say.

[94_MagicFan]

Does anyone know where I can go to see a recap of who signed where this free agency

[OrlandO]

Not sure why people are all over Shaq about his Vaughn quote. This board reacted the same way when Vaughn was originally mentioned... It was "Shaw or Malone" all day every day until they were out of the running. The mention of Vaughn brought nothing but criticism except from maybe 1 or 2 posters. Then we started learning more about him outside of his weak career as a player (quotes from Pop) and he became an acceptable choice.

[94_MagicFan]

Players still available that i would like to bring in on the cheap most on one year deals see how they work out We have a couple trade exceptions maybe rob can put them to use

Dj Augustin/manny Harris/delonte west
T.will/joshhoward/Alonzogee
Mbarnes/Snovak/
Landry
Pryzbilla/oden

[NEM]

Players still available that i would like to bring in on the cheap most on one year deals see how they work out We have a couple trade exceptions maybe rob can put them to use

Dj Augustin/manny Harris/delonte west
T.will/joshhoward/Alonzogee
Mbarnes/Snovak/
Landry
Pryzbilla/oden

augustin signed with indiana for 1 year, 3 million

novak got 4 years, 16 million from NYK

i wouldn't mind T-Will, expecially if we are rebuilding. Id like to give oden a 2 year deal, with the second being a team option. howard is old and useless to us. gee is overrated A LOT, but he'd be a decent back up. barnes is meh, whatever, we have a ton of 4's so landry is redundant, przybilla would be nice if we kept dwight..so

N/A:
augustin, novak

HELL YEAH:
williams
oden

SURE, WHY NOT:
gee
przybilla
harris

MEH, NO THANKS:
barnes
howard
landry
west

[MagicFan101]

augustin signed with indiana for 1 year, 3 million

novak got 4 years, 16 million from NYK

i wouldn't mind T-Will, expecially if we are rebuilding. Id like to give oden a 2 year deal, with the second being a team option. howard is old and useless to us. gee is overrated A LOT, but he'd be a decent back up. barnes is meh, whatever, we have a ton of 4's so landry is redundant, przybilla would be nice if we kept dwight..so

N/A:
augustin, novak

HELL YEAH:
williams
oden

SURE, WHY NOT:
gee
przybilla
harris

MEH, NO THANKS:
barnes
howard
landry
west

Terrence Williams has been given his chances. The guy has NBA talent but he is a train wreck off the court. I don't want him anywhere near a young, rebuilding Orlando Magic roster.

[SS_MagicMark]

Part of me would love to see T-Will here, but if the HOU trade goes through, I'm not sure he'd be a great fit. He put up some nice numbers for SAC toward the end of last season, but overall his hard-headedness outweighs the benefit he provides on the court. Some time away from the NBA might do him some good.

[magicman123]

augustin got 1 year $3mil?, i would of taken him any day for that, we did, well nvm

[glennathan]

Does anyone know where I can go to see a recap of who signed where this free agency

http://www.nba.com/freeagents/2012/

Here is what I have been using to keep track