Meet Margo Lorbecke. She’s a junior at the University of Central Florida, studying pre-med, and she has an interesting proposition for Orlando Magic big man Dwight Howard. No, she doesn’t want him to take her to a sorority formal. She actually wants to challenge him in a free-throw shooting contest. Interesting.

The Orlando Magic have pulled Dwight Howard off the trading block, meaning that proposed deals to the Lakers, Clippers, or Nets are on hold indefinitely. Wasn’t one of the only good byproducts of this lockout supposed to be the few blockbuster-filled weeks of player movements and signings before the season started? Weren’t we promised that? Whatever happened to that? [ESPN]

Somebody needs to trade for Chris Paul, don’t they? It appears, however, that as of this morning that somebody won’t be the Los Angeles Lakers. After taking a re-do and resubmitting the 3-team deal to the league offices for a second look, it appears that the deal is dead, for now, and the Lakers have set their sights on landing Dwight Howard instead.

Bob Vander Weide, outgoing CEO of the Orlando Magic, finds himself in the middle of a rather improbable controversy: there are rumors he might have recently drunk-dialed his team’s franchise player, Dwight Howard, at 1 a.m. Not surprisingly, Vander Weide is denying he was drunk for the call in question.

Welp, this is easily the best story of the day. On Tuesday, it was confirmed that Bob Vander Weide would be retiring as CEO of the Orlando Magic, and will be replaced in the front office by current president Alex Martins. Now, more information about Vander Weide’s final few days are starting to trickle in, and one detail in particular is… well, it’s just great.

The talk of the NBA today is how the Los Angeles Lakers are reportedly trying to figure out a way to get Chris Paul and Dwight Howard to team up with Kobe Bryant. But they’re not the only team who’d like t add those two. In fact, according to ESPN’s Chris Broussard, they’re not even the only team in town who’d like to add those two.

We mean family-friendly fun, not the type of fun that, say, John Daly has.

On a recent trip to Mongolia, Dwight Howard tweeted this, and then did a traditional dance with a group of Mongolian children, and, well, looked like he was having a blast.

Sheldon Bailey has been the on-set double in 12 national and international commercials for LeBron James, Kobe Bryant and Dwight Howard. But all that pales in comparison to his latest basketball gig.

The New Jersey Nets would like the best center in basketball to play for them. Shocking, right?