Gotta hand it to Billy King. He moved fast on what had been a day of devastating news. The general manager of the New Jersey Nets reacted swiftly and may have gotten an unbelievable bargain by acquiring center Mehmet Okur from the Utah Jazz for the paltry price of a second-round draft pick. This came just a couple hours after the Nets announced that center Brook Lopez had suffered a stress fracture of the fifth metacarpal in his right foot that will
Dwight Howard has requested a trade to the Nets
That is the news out of Orlando this evening, and now it is a question of whether New Jersey has enough pieces to get the deal done. It has been well known that New Jersey is willing to deal center Brook Lopez and two first-round draft picks to Orlando, taking back the contract of Hedo Turkoglu in the deal to give Orlando salary cap flexibility. But is that enough to get the league’s most dominant center? Also, can the Nets clear more
Dwight Howard to Nets?
There is a question mark in that headline because there needs to be one. Things are going to change by the hour today, and who knows what kind of twists and turns the Chris Paul trade fiasco is going to take before the league officially re-opens for business at 2 p.m. EST. In case you missed it, 86 percent of the players who cast ball0ts voted to approve the new labor agreement before commissioner David Stern 86’d the three-team trade that would have
The Dwight Howard situation is fluid
Today’s biggest piece of comes news from Orlando, via the Sentinel’s Josh Robbins, that Magic general manager Otis Smith has not yet received a single trade offer for Dwight Howard. But he should start getting those calls shortly, especially after saying he will look at all options. “I think you have to look at everything,” Smith told the Orlando Sentinel when asked if he’d consider dealing Howard to another team. “I don’t think you can take
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