"After wrestling with Kendrick Perkins, Glen Davis, and Rasheed Wallace in Game 1's 92-88 loss to the Celtics Sunday, Magic center Dwight Howard said he would pick and choose his battles in Game 2 tonight at the Amway Center.

"It's not about fighting,'' Howard said. "I think that's the thing I tried to do [Sunday] was just fight and fight and fight. It's about us playing together. This series, for us, is about how strong we can be, mentally. They're going to fight us and they're going to do all that stuff, but how strong can we be against them?''

Perkins presented a particularly physical but familiar challenge to Howard, who was held to 13 points on 3-of-10 shooting."