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Posted by a Laker fan: Bynum on the airport right now

@chadfordinsider Sources: Four-way Nets-Magic-Cavs-Clippers trade for Dwight Howard getting "CLOSE"

You mean a YOUNG GM?

Clippers enter the fray... new updated deal: Orlando gets: - Brook Lopez (S&T) - Shelden Williams (S&T) - Damion Jones (S&T) - Luke Walton ($6 million) - 3 Draft Picks Brooklyn gets: - Dwight Howard ($19 million) - Jason Richardson ($6 million) - Earl Clark ($1 million) Cleveland gets: - Kris Humphries (S&T) - Sundiata Gaines (S&T) - Quentin Richardson ($3 million) - 2 Draft Picks Clippers gets: - Marshon Brooks ($1 million)

@KBergCBS And source confirms that the deal would be contingent on Magic docs signing off on Brook Lopez's foot and Nets' docs on Howard's back. So it sounds like it could go down today?

I know we have the youngest NBA GM at 30 years old, but man, Hennigan's getting schooled by Billy King in this trade real bad!

‏@WojYahooNBA Orlando will need to have its doctors examine Brook Lopez's foot before it would finalize any deal, league sources tell Y! Sports. Phew I feel much better! /sarcasm

What other reporters are saying about this proposed Brooklyn trade: ----- @Joel Brigham: If what's being reported is correct, this could be the worst superstar trade of all time. What a load of garbage for Orlando... ----- @Eddy Rivera ‏ Like I said about Dwight. I'll say the same about Bynum. Trade for him, get his Bird rights, and dare him to walk from 5 years, $100 mill. ----- @Nate Jones Magic fans overwhelmingly would rather take the Bynum deal. Bynum walks, you start over. Lopez at or near max is a disaster! ----- @Bruce Arthur: That Dwight Howard proposal as detailed by Woj, explained simply: Dwight to Brooklyn, hot garbage to Orlando, hot garbage to Cleveland

Houston's deal at least gives us higher draft picks, not Brooklyn's mid-to-late 20's. But Dwight's stupid stance on not signing anywhere else is making other teams like Houston, Golden State not that into it.

But it's Adrian Woj reporting this...... there's real truth to it.

Revised according to Woj (Yahoo): http://sports.yahoo.com/news/nba--nets-emerge-again-as-strong-contender-to-land-dwight-howard.html Orlando gets: - Brook Lopez (S&T) - Shelden Williams (S&T) - Damion Jones (S&T) - Luke Walton ($6 million) - 3 Draft Picks Brooklyn gets: - Dwight Howard ($19 million) - Jason Richardson ($6 million) - Earl Clark ($1 million) Cleveland gets: - Kris Humphries (S&T) - Sundiata Gaines (S&T) - Quentin Richardson ($3 million) - 1 Draft Pick (2nd pick contingent on 4th team taking MarShon Brooks) Since we're sending back $25 million in salary, that means we should get back the same amount. Guessing something like: Lopez = $12 million, Williams = $4 million, Jones = $4 million or something.

From another forum:

Other NBA fans even know that we're getting raped by this trade: http://forums.realgm.com/boards/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=1194114&sid=8304975e688bf273f2e615379dd67d88 Wake up Hennigan, wake up!

UPDATED: Summary of proposed trade... Orlando gets: - Brook Lopez (S&T) - Shelden Williams (S&T) - Damion Jones (S&T) - Luke Walton ($6 million) - 2 Draft Picks (3rd pick contingent on 4th team taking MarShon Brooks) Brooklyn gets: - Dwight Howard ($19 million) - Jason Richardson ($6 million) - Earl Clark ($1 million) Cleveland gets: - Kris Humphries (S&T) - Sundiata Gaines (S&T) - Quentin Richardson ($3 million) - 1 Draft Pick

RH doesn't want MarShon (see Summer League game today) and instead wants a late 1st round pick for him.

Summary of proposed trade... Wow, horrible for us! We trade 4 players to get 3 new long term contracts from NBA bench scrubs! And those 3 late draft picks would be in the mid-late 20's. Time to shrivel up, I'll be laying in a fetal position for the next 24 hours.

What's the point in trying to want to get Brian Shaw, when even he won't be able to coach this crapfest of a team to 20 wins?

@WojYahooNBA https://twitter.com/WojYahooNBA Shelden Williams? Damion Jones?? Luke Walton???

WOW... really, we get this trash??? WOW...

So we're gift wrapping the top center of the league to Brooklyn giving them championship dominance to battle it out with Miami for the next 9 or so years... ...for a Broken Foot and mid-to-late draft picks in the 20's? BRILLIANT! So I'll be around 38 when we become somehow relevant again.

Can someone recap who the player's we getting? Besides Dwight, who else are we giving up?

Where would you insert Broken Foot Lopez in between this list in terms of ranking among current centers? 1. Dwight Howard 2. Andrew Bynum 3. Roy Hibbert 4. Tyson Chandler 5. Al Horford 6. Al Jefferson 7. Nene Hillario 8. Andrea Bargani 9. Joaquim Noah 10. Andrew Bogut 11. Marcin Gortat 12. Spencer Hawes

Anyone see this? @AlexKennedyNBA Alex Kennedy Last night, Andrew Bynum posted, "Does blue suit me?" on his Facebook page. Is he hinting that he'll be dealt to the Orlando Magic? ‪#hmmm Posted 9 mins ago

Howard/Deron/Joe/Wallace Howard/Kobe/Gasol/Nash Which line up has a much better shot at dethroning the Heat?

Gut feeling says Dwight won't get traded until after July 11. This will be a loooooong week.