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ESPN: Magic Withdraw Darko Offer; Agent: Otis "Dishonest, deceitful"
Topic Started: Jul 3 2007, 08:11 PM (573 Views)
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One day after coming to a verbal agreement with free agent Rashard Lewis, the Orlando Magic withdrew their qualifying offer for restricted free agent Darko Milicic on Tuesday.

In effect, the move means the Magic have renounced their rights to Milicic and he becomes an unrestricted free agent.

Milicic's agent Marc Cornstein said the move took him by surprise. He said Magic GM Otis Smith called him earlier in the day to tell him the team wanted to keep Milicic and would begin exploring ways to make it happen.

"I think it is unfortunate how dishonest and deceitful Otis Smith and the Orlando Magic have been in the process," Cornstein said. "However, I think it can be a good thing for Darko. I believe Darko is the most coveted free agent in the market now. We are excited to get a fresh start with a team that truly believes in him."

Said Smith of the Magic's decision: "Our goals remains the same: to sign a free agent and try to retain Darko. It hasn't changed."

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Cornstein says Otis is dishonest and deceitful, Otis says he still wants to keep Darko, and a GM is quoted in the article as saying that Otis won't return phone calls asking about trades. What the f :@ is going on here?! Are we really going to let him go for nothing?

Answer the phone, Otis. Come on.
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He better answer the phone or the (you know what) is going to hit the fan.
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The move puzzled a number of general managers, one of whom wondered why the Magic didn't at least attempt to get something of value for Milicic.

"They gave up a No. 1 pick for him and he has enormous trade value," he said. "A number of teams would've talked with them about sign-and-trades, including us. But Otis didn't return calls and we never heard from him. It makes no sense."


This is what I've been saying today. It makes no sense, unless Otis pulls a friking entire family of rabbits from his hat. And somehow, maybe due to the history of bad decisions this organization has, I don't think we'll make us all drool in wonder.
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This is very confusing. It's hard to sit back and hope Otis has a plan, because it sure looks like he doesn't. It would have been nice to recieve something for Darko, instead of just letting him walk out the door leaving us emptyhanded.
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Jul. 3 2007 08:21 PM
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The move puzzled a number of general managers, one of whom wondered why the Magic didn't at least attempt to get something of value for Milicic.

"They gave up a No. 1 pick for him and he has enormous trade value," he said. "A number of teams would've talked with them about sign-and-trades, including us. But Otis didn't return calls and we never heard from him. It makes no sense."


This is what I've been saying today. It makes no sense, unless Otis pulls a friking entire family of rabbits from his hat. And somehow, maybe due to the history of bad decisions this organization has, I don't think we'll make us all drool in wonder.

Moves, er.... non-moves, like this one are what make the Magic one of the least-respected teams in sports. :/
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This is sorta spoiling the really good day we had going. We get Rashard, but then we get blasted by Darko. It's like finding 20 bucks in an old pair of jeans, but then walking into a pole.
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We've still got time. I'm not an overly optimistic guy, but the time is still there. Not sure if Otis wants to even try to contact Darko after Cornstein's latest hissy fit. Not sure what he's doing, but as I said, there's time.
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Well, the Sonics just agreed with Carlesimo to be their coach.
A team that hires Carlesimo might also be dumb enough to pick our our expirings in a sign and trade and give us enough cap to get a good frontcourt player via free-agency.
lol, there is still hope :P
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Terrible job by Otis not even making contact. He should have been doing everything to keep him here, Dwight and Darko could have been a front court force in this league for years to come. I'm so dissapointed by this!
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Jul. 3 2007 08:54 PM
Terrible job by Otis not even making contact. He should have been doing everything to keep him here, Dwight and Darko could have been a front court force in this league for years to come. I'm so dissapointed by this!

It's still too early to say things like this. Darko and his agent are supposed to be professional and understand this is a multimillion dollar business. I personally think all of this negativity from their camp is because no one wants to give him the deal they think he's worth.
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Bizarre, pick up the damn phone.
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very odd come on Otis answer the Damn phone!!!!
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Will someone here explain to me how the hell Otis is supposed to pull off a sign and trade when at the moment he cannot even do the "sign" part? The Magic have no cap space left. Otis has to also give Dwight his extension this summer, so the Magic will have no cap space for the future.

And why would Darko even do a sign and trade, unless he is to get a max deal (which will not happen) he has no reason to go through the Magic unless Otis somehow finds enough cap space to give Darko what is wanted and be willing to accept Darko's suiters cap dreck in return.

Otis has played this correctly unless you want to back off Lewis and take Darko instead (and nobody wants that). Given the situation, Darko was expendable.

Brutal
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Jul. 5 2007 09:01 AM
Will someone here explain to me how the hell Otis is supposed to pull off a sign and trade when at the moment he cannot even do the "sign" part? The Magic have no cap space left. Otis has to also give Dwight his extension this summer, so the Magic will have no cap space for the future.

And why would Darko even do a sign and trade, unless he is to get a max deal (which will not happen) he has no reason to go through the Magic unless Otis somehow finds enough cap space to give Darko what is wanted and be willing to accept Darko's suiters cap dreck in return.

Otis has played this correctly unless you want to back off Lewis and take Darko instead (and nobody wants that). Given the situation, Darko was expendable.

Brutal

Brutal, from what I understand, Darko was never going to be a part of the sign and trade anyway. Most "predictions" have us sending Arroyo, Garrity (expiring contracts) and maybe Turk. Sometimes Dooling is in the mix. But I haven't seen Darko in the mix. In fact, from what I understood, we were going to use the contracts we dealt away to have enough money to resign Darko to a good contract. Now, it looks like that won't happen. Maybe the Sonics will give us Fortson in the trade (if they still have him). :wow:
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On a side note Darko's agent is also Franny's agent. Who is REALLY a liar when as a franchise you are told that Fran will definitely play in America?
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