December 28, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors
Dwight Howard will be a free agent next summer and has made it obvious that he’s more than willing to leave Orlando so the Magic would be crazy not to trade him before the deadline. Apparently, Atlanta is in the running.
Sources told ESPN.com that the aforementioned Hawks, meanwhile, engaged Orlando in trade talks for Howard earlier this month with an offer believed to be headlined by $124 million guard Joe Johnson and swingman Josh Smith. You have to figure that the Magic, though, would insist on Al Horford if such discussions ever got serious. …. The Hawks nonetheless took the risk of pursuing Howard anyway and, according to sources, felt like they were making some semblance of progress before the Magic shut down talks.
Source: espn.com
