Soap Opera in Orlando

     Dwight Howard is easily the NBA's hot spot for high profile soap opera drama, and the story only gets more interesting. Anyone who follows the NBA knows of the trade drama that has surrounded
Dwight Howard for the past couple of months, but with the trade deadline long gone that drama was supposed to be over with. Instead the exact opposite happened, and the rumors are now hotter than ever. All of this steams down to the Orlando Magics head coach Steve Van Gundy and his comments made three days ago of word that "came from the top". According to Van Gundy he knows that Dwight Howard has personally asked Magic's top managers that Steve Van Gundy be fired as head coach, and this of course is a whole new mess of its own. With playoff time dwindling ever closer, this huge disagreement between star player and coach does nothing to help Orlando's chance at a NBA Championship title.
     Orlando's game yesterday against the Seventy Sixers showed that even with the drama going on Dwight is still a performance monster, with an impressive twenty rebounds and twenty points. However this does not seal the deal. Despite Howard's impressive performance his newly found back troubles became more apparent, as at one point he got a rebound and completely collapsed onto the f;oor. This is only the begging. Orlando will have many harder games as the NBA season comes to an end, and even more of that as the playoff's begin. Can the team make it through the playoffs? Will Dwight's back be able to handle the stress?
     The NBA Championship is  the key factor in determining the Orlando Magics near future, and with Orlando's future Dwight's as well. If the Magic don't pull of a championship title this year Dwight and Van Gundy are both very unlikely to return to the team next season. Dwight is Orlando's power house averaging 20 points a game, and a crazy 14 rebounds per game. It is hard to imagine an Orlando without such a dominant center. Yet these coaching issues do not look good for Orlando, and if those don't kill the Magic in the playoffs, Howard's back might. Either way is a loose loose situation for Orlando, cause in both situations they loose their star player. The Soap Opera in Orlando continues, and a cloudy future looks like it is on its way for the vacation city.