NBA Rumors: Nothing Controversial About Dinner Between D-Will and DH12

It's not exactly a secret that Deron Williams and Dwight Howard would like to team up some day. They're two great players who could compete for a championship together, but they're also good pals.

Williams and Howard don't need to be on the same team in order to be pals, though. They can be pals whenever and wherever.

Like, for example, Wednesday night at a restaurant in Orlando. The word from The Star-Ledger is that Williams and Howard actually made it happen.

This would be one of those things that make you go, "Hmmmm..."

But if you ask Howard, there was nothing to see there.

"Since he’s been in the league, every time he comes to town, we go eat dinner and just kick it,'' said Howard before his Orlando Magic beat Williams' New Jersey Nets on Thursday night. "We’ve been friends since the Olympics, and so we go out to eat, have a bite.''

That was more than Williams wanted to say about his rendezvous with Howard. All he could manage to say was, "I don't even know -- I really don't."

A couple weeks ago, Williams and Howard could have been having dinner as teammates. As Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! Sports reported, the Nets had a deal in place to acquire Howard from the Magic, but Orlando's ownership nixed it and the team subsequently killed all trade talk regarding Howard.

Supposedly, Howard wasn't very happy about the idea.

As such, it's really not hard to imagine Williams and Howard speaking in hushed voices over a couple steaks, carefully and meticulously plotting Howard's escape from Orlando and safe delivery to New Jersey. In a day and age where NBA superstars have the power to dictate where they play next, what's to stop two superstars from putting their heads together and making something happen?

Well, aside from the fact that Williams and Howard don't run their respective teams, nothing really. All these two needed was the power to execute a trade right then and there, and they would have done it.

But since they don't and never will have that power, they probably spent their time discussing other things.

Like, you know, toast. It is warm and crispy, and a perfect place for jelly to lay.

Whatever they talked about, it's not worthy of freaking out over. Not all suppers need to be fodder for Dan Brown conspiracy theories.