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Say the Dallas Mavericks come up empty in free agency (i.e. don't sign Deron Williams) and Dwight Howard is dealt somewhere to end that pursuit before it really started, and the only option left is to rebuild. Would Dirk Nowitzki request a trade? ...

Shawn Marion finished eighth in media voting for NBA Defensive Player of the Year. NBA coaches apparently didn't buy into the hype. Marion didn't make the first or second All-Defensive teams, as voted on by the league's 30 coaches, and garnered ju...

NBA Most Valuable Player LeBron James was the leading vote-getter for the league's all-defensive squad Wednesday, while Defensive Player of the Year Tyson Chandler didn't even crack the first team.

Shaquille O'Neal will meet with the Magic next week to discuss the GM opening, multiple sources told ESPN The Magazine's Chris Broussard.

In this week's "That's What She Said," Sarah Spain offers the Madden 13 team some patented moves to include alongside Tebowing in the newest edition.

Glen "Big Baby" Davis joined Hill and Schlereth on ESPN Radio to talk about the changes in Orlando. One change he doesn't see happening is Dwight Howard's uniform. Big Baby says he's 100 percent sure he will play with the Magic next year. Big Bab...

On Monday, Stan Van Gundy was fired from his job as coach of the Orlando Magic. After the emotional tractor trailer jack-knifing that was this Magic season, this move was inevitable. It was a day of housecleaning for the franchise, as they also relie...

Noah Graham/NBAE/Getty Images We may have seen this trio of champions together for the last time. What is Pau Gasol worth? Many believe this is the central question of the Lakers' offseason. Gasol was integral to three straight Finals appeara...

ESPN Los Angeles' Dave McMenamin describes what the Lakers need to do to stay in the upper echelon in the Western Conference. Listen One Big Thing - As Dwight Howard makes a decision to stay or go in Orlando, Scott Van Pelt talks about star players...

If Dwight Howard is dead set on leaving the Magic's small (market) world ASAP, as reports suggest, and Orlando grants his wish, it's hard to find the happily-ever-after ending for the Dallas Mavericks. That's the picture Orlando Sentinel columnist...

As you probably know by now, it's over. The tumultuous relationship between the ever-enjoyable Stan Van Gundy -- fired Monday after five years as Orlando Magic head coach -- and Dwight Howard is no more. But instead of feeling too bad for Stan ...

Magic SVP Pat Williams dishes on the decision to cut ties with Stan Van Gundy and Otis Smith. Williams says Orlando hopes to get Dwight Howard's status resolved this summer. Williams ESPN NBA Insider Chris Broussard comments on Andrew Bynum, the st...

It will likely be argued that Stan Van Gundy is a product of his star players. After all, he has only coached teams that included either Dwyane Wade or Dwight Howard. And Howard especially anchored a defensive unit that, in the Van Gundy era, has cer...

If the rationale behind ousting coach Stan Van Gundy and general manager Otis Smith was to make staying in Orlando more appealing to Dwight Howard, the Magic failed.

The Orlando Magic have made the first two moves they had to make to have any chance at persuading Dwight Howard to sign the contract extension he's balked at until now. The Magic announced Monday that coach Stan Van Gundy and general manager Otis ...

For months the Orlando Magic have been trudging through the aftermath of a preseason trade request by Dwight Howard that sapped the life out of the franchise as internal team issues quickly affected the product on the floor.