NBA Trade Rumors: Making Sense of Latest Dwight Howard to Brooklyn Nets Chatter

The Brooklyn Nets are currently engaging in talks with the Orlando Magic to figure out a way to bring Dwight Howard to their team this offseason. However, because of limited cap room and available trading chips, the Nets are struggling to come up with a suitable offer to pry the superstar away from the Magic Kingdom.

There are a number of sources reporting a multitude of hypothetical deals that could eventually take place that would land Howard in the Big Apple. Let’s take a look at some of the interesting rumors floating around the Internet concerning this potential blockbuster.

Brook Lopez, Kris Humphries and MarShon Brooks for Howard, Quentin Richardson and Jason Richardson

CBS Sports’ Ken Berger is reporting that the Nets, who have little cap space left after trading for Joe Johnson and signing Gerald Wallace, could still absorb some excess salary from the Magic in this deal. They have a $3 million trade exception that they could use to pick up Q-Rich’s contract, while the numbers for the other players would work under the CBA.

However, the Magic seem to want to shed Hedo Turkoglu’s abhorrent $11.8 million salary the most, and the Nets will be hard-pressed to find a way to facilitate this.

Bring in a Third Team

Yahoo! Sports’ Adrian Wojnarowski found that the only way for progress to be made in a potential trade is for the Nets to bring in a third party interested in taking on Kris Humphries:

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For Nets-Magic to progress on a Dwight Howard deal, a 3rd team needed to take Kris Humphries in a sign-and-trade, league source tells Y!

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@WojYahooNBA) July 3, 2012"

The Magic would likely forge ahead with Ryan Anderson and Robin Lopez as their primary bigs, making Humphries the odd man out.

It looks like Nets GM Billy King might have to call in some favors if he wants to bring DH12 to Brooklyn.