Dwight Howard Wants to Stay in Orlando

[y1027330 (leon)]

Dwight Howard may have pushed the proverbial ball into the Orlando Magic’s
court tonight.

After a 104-98 overtime win against the Miami HEAT, Howard revealed that
despite the NBA’s March 15 trade deadline looming, he’s told the Magic that
he would like to finish the season in Orlando, and believes the team can
contend as currently constructed.

“I told these guys what I’ve been telling them for the past two or three
weeks now,” Howard explained. “ I want to stay and finish the season.”

“I told them I feel we’ve got a great opportunity to win and I told them
that I want to be here. I want to bring a championship here and I told them
they’ve got to give me that chance.”

“They didn’t trade me at the beginning of the season and I told them I was
going to go out and play as hard as I can every night to put our team in a
position to win. We’re third in the East, we’re playing great basketball.”

“I told them, I don’t want to see that slip away so we’ve got to take
chance and I think we have a great chance of surprising a lot of people and
winning.”

Howard would not address the future beyond this year and said he understood
there was some risk for the Magic, but hoped they’d roll the dice and keep
him in Orlando.

“We’ve been talking for a while and I told them, I want to finish this
season out and give our team and give our fans some hope for the future but I
feel they have to roll that dice,” sad Howard. “It might be tough but I
feel like we’ve got a great opportunity but they’ve got to roll it. “

“I’ve talked to Rich [DeVos], I’ve talked to Dan DeVos, I’ve talked to
Alex [Martins] and Otis [Smith] and I want to finish this season out,”
 Howard said with certainty. “I think we’re going to hit our peak at the
right time and we’re going to make a good run. “

When pressed about his future, Howard wouldn’t allow the discussion to get
past this season.

“That doesn’t matter,” said Howard. “This moment is what matters. Like I
said, we have a great opportunity.”

“These guys are on a team, they’re working hard every day to get better and
we’ve got a good shot. We’ve got a good shot. Everybody’s trusting in our
captains, me and Jameer, and like I said, we hit our peak at the right time
and nobody’s going to be able to beat us.”

For weeks, the Magic’s posture on Howard was that they were not looking to
trade their franchise big man, rather looking to add players around him.

In the last 24 hours, the Magic have been connected to deals with the
Minnesota Timberwolves – involving Jason Richardson and Michael Beasley –
 and secondary deals that could move out Chris Duhon and Quentin Richardson.

The Magic had been in talks to land Monta Ellis from the Golden State
Warriors, however it seems he’ll end up in Milwaukee as part of consummated
Andrew Bogut deal. Ellis could be re-traded by Milwaukee, but the initial
word from the Bucks is they plan to keep Ellis and see how much of a push
they can make towards the playoffs.

Howard’s declaration of wanting to finish the season surely changes the
dynamic of the relationship.

The future still remains uncertain, but it does seem that Howard has pushed
the ball back to Orlando, the question is will they hold the line with Howard
and see what July brings?


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好噁真的很想為魔術拼冠軍

但感覺他也很想離開...

看完這篇有種 替好噁感嘆 但又覺得他有點自私.....

文章還有提到 JRICH跟B-EASY的交易

還有QRICH跟度宏的交易 但有人會要??

也有提到公鹿也可能在交易ELLIS但機會不大......

總之快要落幕了

不管怎樣 希望魔數還能繼續保有競爭力

順帶一提 好噁有隨隊去聖安東尼奧 ...

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※ 編輯: y1027330        來自: 114.32.184.86        (03/14 21:25)
推 ssd123698745:留下來可以  但保證他到時候願意讓我們先簽後換...
→ ssd123698745:不然承擔的風險真的太大..
→ y1027330:先簽後換沒有意義阿 別人一定不會換大包的阿
→ y1027330:文章也有提到 好噁自己有說當然他知道球隊會承擔很大風險
→ y1027330:但我覺得好噁自己就是這樣 什麼都都想要
→ y1027330:人最困難的可能就是學會放下吧
→ y1027330:畢竟他也經營魔術的人氣七年了
→ pennyfish:對我來說，Howard離開程度大於歐尼爾和T-Mac和Hill
推 wildwest:我只能說 留下來到季末跑籃網的機率超大....
→ ssd123698745:唉 也是 如果下一場DH忽然就不在了還是有點難接受
→ wildwest:畢竟那邊有太多DH所想要的
→ ssd123698745:畢竟看這個招牌內線12號站禁區看幾年了
→ wildwest:最機車的是籃網損失越少 對DH的引誘越大...
→ pennyfish:最難受的是penny!!!!魔獸比起前幾位球員，我還比較喜歡
→ ssd123698745:現在最怕籃網就是真的和你賭DH暑假一定會來 最後關頭
→ ssd123698745:抽掉談判等暑假..
→ pennyfish:其他人，難過的是，魔獸走了，冠軍可能要等好幾年了....
推 wildwest:如果有大市場 DW+M.Brooks+B.Lopez+Humphries+高選秀
→ wildwest:DH會不會去?  尤其他又不爽待在這了
推 ssd123698745:現在DH保證過去之後會續約的有哪些隊啊?
→ wildwest:大概除了籃網外是沒有 換到他都會面臨我們現在的狀況
→ wildwest:球季結束不爽就一腳踢開跳籃網
→ y1027330:他連湖人都不要了...
推 ssd123698745:對阿  所以真的很怕籃網直接狠下心抽掉談判
推 wildwest:到籃網可以當老大 又有剛剛說的一堆好東西 老闆也有錢...
→ ssd123698745:那大概只能好好觀賞本季剩餘的比賽了..
→ wildwest:現在尼克正在上演劇場 怕顆粒無收就去談看看吧...
→ wildwest:至少有個瓜吃一吃....
→ Eason1ee:會不會明天有Melo單換Howard的消息?
→ Eason1ee:DH也不一定會續約...感覺不太可能
推 ssd123698745:尼克會想要同時有DH+拳王嗎
推 josh17:讓我想到全台灣大概只剩小珍還相信李晉涼,我們大概也只剩
→ josh17:球隊高層相信魔獸想要留下了....@@
推 myflame:今天記者會連小禎都已經失望了喔 XDrz
推 kingwei520:但魔術高層相信會有奇蹟的可是有一票人喔 XD
→ wildwest:那個叫一廂情願....
→ wildwest:不過想要開創奇蹟...先相信奇蹟會發生 (魔術高層洗腦中)
→ wildwest:又有新的乳摸  這次的不錯 籃網湖人二選一
→ wildwest:我是挑籃網的 運氣好下季選到怪物 直指總冠軍XDDDD
→ wildwest:Lopez+Humphries+M.Brooks 如果再拿J-rich換到B-easy
→ wildwest:陣容也算齊了...
推 Sheffield3:Nets如果有今年沒保護的首輪就真的太讚了..
→ Sheffield3:很可能是前五順位，一不小心搞不好是狀元籤..
→ hssz:我覺得留下他，明年99％會跑....
→ hssz:當年騎士也是把LBJ當皇上伺候，他要走時留不住外連毛都沒換到
推 keike:不管走不走，都希望這幾天就有確定的結果，最壞不過就再幾年
→ keike:黑暗期罷了，反正都經歷過歐瘦、Penny、T-Mac離開了(嘆)
→ Verlander35:唉，最糟就是不要再有中鋒跑掉啥都沒拿到的情形
→ Verlander35:如果續留最好，但認命就是和籃網交易 這包好很多