Thanks for the link, and glad to see the Collison idea has your approval too. By the way, I meant to comment earlier, but you did an outstanding job with the uniform coverage over the past couple of days. I loved reading it – great stuff.

you can mark down my prediction, here bright and early. Otis is going to trade Hedo by the deadline. not that wild of an idea but people aren’t talking much about it. i guarantee it.

here’s hoping that some team will be desperate for some offensive help (Chicago?) and pull the trigger. How does Joakim Noah (back to Central FL), Hinrich (and we wanted Duhon?? ha) and 1st rounder for Hedo sound? damn i forgot hinrich’s making a lot of money. who could the magic send to match salaries?

Noah would fit in nicely and Hinrich would be great as a combo guard coming off the bench.

Of course thats only in theory, cause if they trade for Hinrich’s bloated contract I’d shoot myself in the foot. No way that would go down, bad trade for Orlando and Chicago.

Any idea if he will get a chance to make the Magic’s rotation? I’m not definite he’s a potentially useful player but I’d like to see him get an extended opportunity to play.

first, hedo is not going to be traded bc we start the season badly. we’re trading hedo bc 1. we can go to a more traditional lineup (with Battie starting) and 2. so we don’t lose hedo for nothing after the season.

second, i liiiiike that trade. in a year or two, noah and dwight as our front line ? plus, hinrich definitely had a bad year last time out but i think he can be a good player again. you forget chicago has no offense and he has to make shit happen. here though, i think he would start (jameer would become instant offense 6th man) and become a lock down defender. on offense, he would be simply a facilitator for our guns (dwight, rashard, lee). not only that, we could play jameer and hinrich together depending on the situation, like him and ben gordon. + a 15-20 pick. all this for hedo, who teams obviously know can opt out after this season.

but again salaries don’t match. we’d also have to give up 2 out of this 3 : cook, redick, bogans. that might be much

Turk had an outstanding season last year, no question; but chances are that this season he will not approach the stats he accumulated last season (he will turn 30 next March). He would still be a sold contributor for the Magic, I’m sure.

But, if the Magic do wind up trading Turk before the deadline, sure, they would miss him, but the Magic would be able to return Rashard Lewis to his natural small forward position, and hopefully get a legitimate power forward in return at the very least.

That would also save the Magic the embarrassment of letting Turk go as a free agent and getting absolutely nothing in return.

A typo… I meant to say that Turk would still be a solid contributor for the Magic this season.

That being said, if the Magic can get a legit power forward in a trade involving Turk, I think that would benefit the Magic for the better.

Everyone keeps bringing up that Turk will be 30. This is not the NFL. A lot of these players peak from 27 through age 33. That would give Turk three more years to keep ballin’.