Archive for December, 2011

So much for that short-lived Billups-to-Orlando rumor. Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo has the story: Billups, 35, gives the young Clippers another veteran leader. The team also signed forward Caron Butler to a three-year, $24 million contract in free agency. The New York Knicks had used their amnesty clause on Billups to clear salary-cap room to acquire Dallas Mavericks center Tyson Chandler. Under terms of the league’s amnesty police, any team under the salary cap can put bid on Billups. The bid will offset part of the $14.2 million the Knicks owe Billups in the final year of his contract. The [...]

Stan Van Gundy speaks to the media. (Andrew Melnick is Howard the Dunk’s lead blogger, ESPN Florida’s Magic Insider (http://ESPNFlorida.com) and is the co-host of the ESPNFlorida.com Insiders Show Sunday mornings at 10:00 am EST. Subscribe to his RSS feed, add him on Facebook and follow him onTwitter to follow him daily. You can download the HTD app here)

Hedo Tukroglu addresses the media: (Andrew Melnick is Howard the Dunk’s lead blogger, ESPN Florida’s Magic Insider (http://ESPNFlorida.com) and is the co-host of the ESPNFlorida.com Insiders Show Sunday mornings at 10:00 am EST. Subscribe to his RSS feed, add him on Facebook and follow him onTwitter to follow him daily. You can download the HTD app here)

Dwight Howard speaks to the Orlando media: (Andrew Melnick is Howard the Dunk’s lead blogger, ESPN Florida’s Magic Insider (http://ESPNFlorida.com) and is the co-host of the ESPNFlorida.com Insiders Show Sunday mornings at 10:00 am EST. Subscribe to his RSS feed, add him on Facebook and follow him onTwitter to follow him daily. You can download the HTD app here)

Media Day is mostly a fun event with goofy pictures being taken and funny promos being recorded. We in the media get the chance to talk with the players, some for the very first time. This is my third time covering media day and obviously, things were quite different this year. With Dwight Howard’s recent request for a trade, that’s all anyone wants to talk about. Although I was interested to hear what some of the newcomers had to say, you can’t blame everyone for keeping their eyes on Howard at all times. After seeing a different kind of Howard [...]

Marc Stein has the story via twitter: One of “changes” Dwight Howard wants is signing of Chauncey. If DH12 stays, sources say he’ll urge Billups to spurn Heat and “anchor” Magic Obviously Chauncey Billups must first clear waivers later today at 6 PM ET. Then Dwight will lobby him to choose Central FLA over South Billups was waived by the New York Knicks through the amnesty provision. (Andrew Melnick is Howard the Dunk’s lead blogger, ESPN Florida’s Magic Insider (http://ESPNFlorida.com) and is the co-host of the ESPNFlorida.com Insiders Show Sunday mornings at 10:00 am EST. Subscribe to his RSS feed, add [...]

Brian and I got to talk to Von Wafer & Justin Harper: (Andrew Melnick is Howard the Dunk’s lead blogger, ESPN Florida’s Magic Insider (http://ESPNFlorida.com) and is the co-host of the ESPNFlorida.com Insiders Show Sunday mornings at 10:00 am EST. Subscribe to his RSS feed, add him on Facebook and follow him onTwitter to follow him daily. You can download the HTD app here)

Day three of training camp is complete and Stan Van Gundy has been extremely pleased with what he has seen from his team. He was not as gleeful regarding the continuing questions about Dwight Howard’s future and looked noticeably testy about the questions for the first time this week. Stan commented several times about how while the media and the fan base may be fixated on Dwight, his job is to be focused solely on the Magic. Emphasizing that he has 12 guys to coach, not just Dwight. His best line of the night: “This is not all about Dwight. [...]

Josh Robbins of the Orlando Sentinel broke the news via twitter: (Andrew Melnick is Howard the Dunk’s lead blogger, ESPN Florida’s Magic Insider (http://ESPNFlorida.com) and is the co-host of the ESPNFlorida.com Insiders Show Sunday mornings at 10:00 am EST. Subscribe to his RSS feed, add him on Facebook and follow him onTwitter to follow him daily. You can download the HTD app here)

(Andrew Melnick is Howard the Dunk’s lead blogger, ESPN Florida’s Magic Insider (http://ESPNFlorida.com) and is the co-host of the ESPNFlorida.com Insiders Show Sunday mornings at 10:00 am EST. Subscribe to his RSS feed, add him on Facebook and follow him onTwitter to follow him daily. You can download the HTD app here)