Orlando Magic News & Notes: Dwight Close To Suspension, Carter Puts The Team First

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Vince Carter doesn’t care about individual numbers.

“This was not my goal [Hall of Fame]. I wanted to enter into the league and be the best player I can be, play for as long as I can … and win a championship,” he said. “Everything after that comes from the groundwork you laid from all your years.

“I never could come on a team and say, ‘If I average this many points or have this kind of season, I can be a Hall-of-Famer.’ They look at your entire career and that’s where it’s judged.”

Brian Schmitz has that story here.

Dwight Howard was whistled for another technical foul on Sunday night.

“Hopefully, it’ll be rescinded,” he said. “I just threw the ball like it was a bowling ball. That’s it. I rolled it pretty fast.”

Howard previously had two other technical calls rescinded by the NBA after the Magic asked the league to review them.

Howard faces a one-game suspension without pay once he accrues 16 technical fouls.

“I think sometimes, as a ref, they may feel that someone’s trying to show them up when that’s not the case sometimes,” Howard said. “We understand they make mistakes. They’re human beings also and our emotions sometimes get the best of us.

“Sometimes, I think there are techs that shouldn’t be techs, but we don’t make the rules. We just have to abide by them.”

You can read about that here.

Phillip Rossman-Reich takes a look at championship team’s top three scorers and how it relates to the Magic.

Looking at the graph it is clear that recently it does not matter how much your primary scorer scores. Wade went bonkers in leading the Heat to the title in 2006 and the Lakers rely heavily on Bryant for their offense. But it is also clear a dominating offensive player is not necessary to win a title.

Very good news for the Magic.

What the graph also shows is that most championship teams depend on their top three scorers for between 55-56 percent of their scoring. Obviously there are exceptions.

But that does not bode too well for the Magic. Both Howard (18.0 percent of the team’s scoring this year) and the top three scorers (48.6 percent of the team’s scoring) are well below the numbers offered in the table above.

You can find that story here.

In a new video feature, HTD will look back at some memorable moments in Magic history. Take a look at the first moment here.

(Andrew Melnick is Howard the Dunk’s lead blogger and a contributor at NFL Mocks Subscribe to his RSS feed, add him on Twitter to follow him daily and you can get the HTD app here).