Sheldon and Danforth say 72-73% chance Dwight Howard signs here

Well Howard would be better than no one but in our current position I'd definitely prefer Whiteside and I'd probably even prefer to give good contracts to Biyombo ($14M?) and someone like Bazemore/Turner/whoever's left (there's not THAT much talent in free agency). Another point someone made in the past is that we could get 2-3 free agents at decent prices and build up our assets to trade for a disgruntled superstar in the future. Currently we do not possess these assets, if someone like Cousins or even Noel (not a star but a good match) became available we cannot make a move. If we had a deeper team there would naturally be more dispensable players to be traded. Might be faulted logic, and could obviously land you with a few contracts you can't get rid of.

 

Dwight/Pau got swept in the first round in 2013.

 

No one is who I think we're going to end up with. I don't remember the last time the Blazers got a top notch free agent. I'm so used to seeing the Blazers swing and miss at free agents that the idea that a good one would want to sign with us seems like crazy talk. I'd be jump for joy happy if we signed Howard.