"There is no need to update Dwight Howard's "list." He hasn't developed an obsessive need for fresh clam chowder.

In fact, we find this whole circus to be rather distasteful. The Magic center can opt out and become a free agent this summer, and until then or such time as Orlando trades him to an attractive city of his choosing, the success of his team will be only a sidebar to the impending Dwight flight.

All indications from sources close to Howard are that, while his list of preferred teams also included the Mavericks, he'd love to wind up in a star center like Los Angeles or New York, which would leave out bucolic Boston. But his repeated reverence for the Celtics fairly begged the question."