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Former Magic forward Mario Kasun has left his Euroleague team , FC Barcelona. This news may interest us Magic fans because Orlando still owns his NBA rights, having extended him a qualifying offer last summer . Sure, it's probably a coincidence -- he and Barcelona agreed to terminate his contract due to health problems -- but it may leave the door open for him to return to Orlando for the ...
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Erick Blasco of Bleacher Report lists the league's 30 best centers . Our very own Dwight Howard ranks second, behind Yao Ming, in large part due to his lack of offensive moves. Blasco also calls Howard out for poor court awareness on defense. (Hat tip: Canis Hoopus )
As you might imagine, Dwight's proud to be an Olympic gold medalist. John Denton has the details . (Hat tip: SLAM )
The ...
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DWIGHT HOWARD: Dunked with admirable authority against inferior opponents. Played miserable defense and was a liability at the stripe.
GRADE: D-plus
FOX Sports on MSN - Olympics - Breaking down the road to redemption . Charley Rosen was so disappointed with Dwight Howard's performance in the Olympics that he graded him a D-Plus, the worst grade of any Redeem Teamer. Yes, Rosen ...
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File photo by Chuck Burton, the Associated Press
Best birthday wishes to Magic head coach Stan Van Gundy, who turns 48 today. In his first year with Orlando, The Man guided the Magic to their third-highest win total in franchise history, all without wearing a tie . I've yet to meet a single Magic fan who doesn't like him. We're glad to have Stan aboard and we hope he took at least ...
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Team U.S.A. celebrates defeating Spain for its first Olympic gold medal since 2000.
Photo by Chang W. Lee, the New York Times
Congratulations to Dwight Howard and everyone involved in U.S.A. Basketball for their gold-medal-winning performance in this Olympics. Howard scored 8 points (3-of-3 from the field, 2-of-6 from the line) and grabbed 5 boards as the United States defeated ...
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This ladies tank-top , adorned with real Swarovski crystals (?!), gives us a sneak-peak at what the Magic's new wordmark will be. We had seen it leaked before -- it's shown up on more than a few mock-ups of what the new jersey may look like -- but this tank confirms it. We also get to see the number font. So much for going back to the original one.
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Pretty big news coming from New York, where Howard Beck of the Times reports that the Knicks have appointed former Magic general manager John Gabriel "the director of pro scouting and free agency , a newly created position." Beck continues:
Gabriel’s primary duty will be evaluating current N.B.A. players, with an eye toward future trades and free-agent signings.
Yeah, Knicks fans should ...
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Monday morning, Steve Kyler of HoopsWorld reported the Magic are basically finished making moves this summer . A rumored Tony-Battie-for-Nick-Collison swap isn't happening, his sources assured him. Damn. Collison's the tough, rebound-centric forward the Magic need. I suppose they value Battie's defense more than they would Collison's work on the glass. Either that, or they love Tony too ...
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BOW! DICKA DICKA GEH DEH DEH DEH - With Leather
NBC's coverage of the Olympics has reminded us of the glory days of the NBA on NBC, which included John Tesh's iconic Roundball Rock theme. In this video, Tesh explains how he came up with the song.
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Video: Dwight Howard *hearts* Dominque Dawes - Ball Don't Lie - NBA - Yahoo! Sports
I think I'm going to have to create a new post category here at 3QC: "Videos of Dwight Howard Bein' Goofy." Here he is meeting his idol, Dominique Dawes, courtesy Ball Don't Lie.
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Last season, the Magic surrendered season-high scoring totals to not a few shooting guards . They signed Mickael Pietrus last month to fortify their weakest overall position last season and, more importantly, to give them the lock-down defensive presence they lacked last season.
Based on the Magic's schedule, they'll know fairly quickly if they made a wise investment.
Here are the ...
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The Orlando Magic will introduce their new uniforms on September 23rd, if you believe this teaser image posted on the team's official online store :
Is that when the team will reveal the new uniforms? Is that when they go on-sale? Both? Neither? The image doesn't tell us much, other than to circle September 23rd on our calendars... because something will happen. Hooray! Nebulousness! ...
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... make it the latest installment in CelticsBlog's "Runnin' Fives" series, which focuses on the Magic . "Runnin' Fives" aims "to put together the best possible standard five-man line-up (two guards, two forwards, one center, with some room for finagling if need be) for each team based on the performance of the players while with said team." Steve Weinman asked me for my input, which makes me ...
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The stars align to pit Dwight Howard against two of his biggest weaknesses: the Detroit Pistions and free throw shooting, not necessarily in that order.
File photo by Paul Sancya, the Associated Press
Sportswriters wore out the Dwight Howard/Superman puns several months ago, but that won't stop me from making the obvious assertion that the big fella's Kryptonite is his lack of ...
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Upside and Motor pictorially pokes fun at Dwight Howard in its Team U.S.A.-vs.- Team Angola recap...
Upside and Motor pictorially pokes fun at Dwight Howard in i ts Team U.S.A.-vs.- Team Angola recap . Tomorrow's Off-Day Open Thread concerns free-throw shooting, so consider this image a teaser (of sorts).
Note that I hosted the image here because Blogger does not allow hotlinking. The image, as its watermark indicates, belongs to Upside and Motor. Thank him, not me.
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Dwight Howard, seen here watching the United States'
Women's Basketball team compete against the Czech Republic, seems
to have lost some popularity among NBA observers. Photo by Mark Dadswell, Getty Images I get the impression that some ...
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The NBA released its schedule yesterday, and to
much fanfare. In this harsh and unforgiving period of
summer in which the biggest NBA news is the Bobcats signing Shannon Brown, ANYTHING will do. That statement especially pertains to the Magic, who have rounded out much of their roster and, barring a tune-up trade, are just biding their time for the season to begin. Now we know when it'll ...
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Via Jerry Greene , here's one way for
Magic fans to participate in the team's 20th anniversary
celebration: the FanTastic Bobble-head. Click here to vote for one of five Magic players to be made into a bobblehead this season . The choices are, in the ...
Here's a short clip of Dwight Howard and Hedo Turkoglu greeting one another before last week's ex...
Here's a short clip of Dwight Howard and Hedo Turkoglu greeting one another before last week's exhibition game between Team USA and Team Turkey. Based on that clip, and the team's behavior after some key wins this season, the "jumping-up-and-down-while-embracing" move seems to have replaced the butt-pat as the Magic's go-to method of whooping it up.
With hat-tips to Basketbawful and ...
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