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

InFlames · Post #1201 » by **InFlames** » Fri Aug 10, 2012 5:49 am

Greenraida wrote:Adrian Wojnarowski ‏@WojYahooNBA

Final Nets offer Orlando rejected in July: Lopez, Humphries (1 year, $9.6M), Brooks, 4 unprotected No. 1's for Howard, JRich, Duhon, Clark.

Would have taken this.

I definitely wouldn't.

Leissak · Post #1202 » by **Leissak** » Fri Aug 10, 2012 5:49 am

Let's look on the bright side guys, with all these young studs on our team, one of them is bound to turn into a superstar, right?

pogiro · Post #1203 » by **pogiro** » Fri Aug 10, 2012 5:50 am

thelead wrote:
pogiro wrote:
thelead wrote:When you have every media guy bashing us why would any good free agent ever want to play here if they have other options? We are getting killed in the PR game... We have a rep worse than the Clippers. Let that sink in.

When have we ever had trouble luring free agents when we have cap space? And hopefully with the rebuild Hennigan can sell prospective free agents the idea os playing with an up and coming group, and maybe by then we'll have drafted our next franchise player(s). A lot of guys wanted the OKC model. Well here you have it.

We will now. We now have a history of pissing off stars. Again:

Shaq
Penny
TMac
G Hill
Dwight

That is EVERY star we've ever had and we pissed all of them off.

How pissed off can Dwight be? We sent him to play with Kobe, Nash, and Gasol.

You're just making doomsday predictions without having anything to back it up.

Mule Tears · Post #1204 » by **Mule Tears** » Fri Aug 10, 2012 5:50 am

If ANY other team had Dwight Howard, they would of gotten 2x better return than we did. But we're the Magic. We're built to suffer, get shafted, and suck.

arkknight1988 · Post #1205 » by **arkknight1988** » Fri Aug 10, 2012 5:50 am

harkless is just as good a prospect as any of houstons rookies. afflalo>kmart. only thing we missed out on was toronto pick, but we got 3 1sts. +The lazy bums jrich and duhon are gone

arsenal6106 · Post #1206 » by **arsenal6106** » Fri Aug 10, 2012 5:50 am

SOUL wrote:To sleep or not to sleep?

Seriously.

cvMagic · Post #1207 » by **cvMagic** » Fri Aug 10, 2012 5:51 am

This sucks doubly for me.
I'm a die-hard Magic fan.
Who lives in Los Angeles.

Now I get to be surrounded by Dwight hoopla even more on a daily basis.
Local news is literally showing people celebrating outside the Staples center.

Post #1208 » by **Def Swami** » Fri Aug 10, 2012 5:51 am

InFlames wrote:
Greenraida wrote:Adrian Wojnarowski ‏@WojYahooNBA

Final Nets offer Orlando rejected in July: Lopez, Humphries (1 year, $9.6M), Brooks, 4 unprotected No. 1's for Howard, JRich, Duhon, Clark.

Would have taken this.

I definitely wouldn't.

Otis was ready to take Lopez and a lottery pick (Lillard). That was far better.

rcklsscognition · Post #1209 » by **rcklsscognition** » Fri Aug 10, 2012 5:51 am

It's clear we are going to rebuild. C'mon guys, just take it like men (and women). Gotta sell this as best they can in the PC, but it's tank and rebuild.

thelead · Post #1210 » by **thelead** » Fri Aug 10, 2012 5:51 am

Pissed off enough to not want to be with our team like every other star we've had. I don't give a @&$! where he goes.

pogiro · Post #1211 » by **pogiro** » Fri Aug 10, 2012 5:51 am

TDJacksonville wrote:
pogiro wrote:
Greenraida wrote:Adrian Wojnarowski ‏@WojYahooNBA

Final Nets offer Orlando rejected in July: Lopez, Humphries (1 year, $9.6M), Brooks, 4 unprotected No. 1's for Howard, JRich, Duhon, Clark.

Would have taken this.

Why? What do we get in that trade that we don't get in this trade? I hope you have something better to say than Brook Lopez.

we would flip brook and humphries

Yes. I saw you the first time.

MagicFan41 · Post #1212 » by **MagicFan41** » Fri Aug 10, 2012 5:52 am

Greenraida wrote:
pogiro wrote:
Greenraida wrote:Adrian Wojnarowski ‏@WojYahooNBA

Final Nets offer Orlando rejected in July: Lopez, Humphries (1 year, $9.6M), Brooks, 4 unprotected No. 1's for Howard, JRich, Duhon, Clark.

Would have taken this.

Why? What do we get in that trade that we don't get in this trade? I hope you have something better to say than Brook Lopez.

unprotected #1's and a solid expiring. Lopez I am not crazy about, but I'm sure eventually we could flip him, especially if he was our starting center and likely first choice option which would have elevated his stats.

Yeh but with Lopez's large deal....the expiring wouldn't really give us any more cap room than this will. I think this deal gives us a little more. Were all the unprotected 1st from Brooklyn themselves? If so, the majority of them would probably be crap since Brooklyn would be great for 5 + years.

Still hoping Henny calls Houston in the morning and threatens to get this done...

arkknight1988 · Post #1213 » by **arkknight1988** » Fri Aug 10, 2012 5:52 am

rcklsscognition wrote:Yo yo yo, hold your horses...

Marc J. Spears ‏@SpearsNBAYahoo

The Magic will receive a second round pick from the Nuggets in the Dwight Howard trade that is a 2013 Warriors pick, source tells Y! Sports.

so we get a DEN first and Warriors 2nd? That 2nd should be in the 30s

thelead · Post #1214 » by **thelead** » Fri Aug 10, 2012 5:52 am

VGOSWAMI wrote:
InFlames wrote:
Greenraida wrote:Adrian Wojnarowski ‏@WojYahooNBA

Final Nets offer Orlando rejected in July: Lopez, Humphries (1 year, $9.6M), Brooks, 4 unprotected No. 1's for Howard, JRich, Duhon, Clark.

Would have taken this.

I definitely wouldn't.

Otis was ready to take Lopez and a lottery pick (Lillard). That was far better.

There was no lottery pick. There was never going to be a lottery pick.

OrlandoMajinBuu · Post #1215 » by **OrlandoMajinBuu** » Fri Aug 10, 2012 5:52 am

I remember someone on here saying that Kyle will have a better carrer + much more playing time than Andrew N. Who was that?

You sure hit the jackpot on that 1.

Post #1216 » by **Def Swami** » Fri Aug 10, 2012 5:52 am

Just hope Afflalo and Harkless become the new MJ and Scottie.

rcklsscognition · Post #1217 » by **rcklsscognition** » Fri Aug 10, 2012 5:52 am

Anyone see Harkless in summer league? I was pretty high on him pre-draft, but when we didn't take him, I lost interest.

thelead · Post #1218 » by **thelead** » Fri Aug 10, 2012 5:54 am

rcklsscognition wrote:Anyone see Harkless in summer league? I was pretty high on him pre-draft, but when we didn't take him, I lost interest.

Played very little and was unimpressive.

silent1900 · Post #1219 » by **silent1900** » Fri Aug 10, 2012 5:55 am

OrlandoMajinBuu wrote:I remember someone on here saying that Kyle will have a better carrer + much more playing time than Andrew N. Who was that?

You sure hit the jackpot on that 1.

Thanks for reminding me that we still have those two to root for...I'll enjoy watching a frontcourt of Harkless, Nicholson, and O'Quinn this year.

pogiro · Post #1220 » by **pogiro** » Fri Aug 10, 2012 5:55 am

VGOSWAMI wrote:
InFlames wrote:
Greenraida wrote:Adrian Wojnarowski ‏@WojYahooNBA

Final Nets offer Orlando rejected in July: Lopez, Humphries (1 year, $9.6M), Brooks, 4 unprotected No. 1's for Howard, JRich, Duhon, Clark.

Would have taken this.

I definitely wouldn't.

Otis was ready to take Lopez and a lottery pick (Lillard). That was far better.

And you think that pick would still be as high if they teamed up Dwight with DWill?