How to kill many birds with one stone

Unbeknown to most people,  the nuggets actually sit in a good position right now. In a league filled with roster/ financial turmoil we look quite good with a young talented team, huge amounts of cap room and no glaring holes (unless Nene actually does leave).    the only way to move now is forward..... and one move will complete everything for this team.

Note :until the new CBA is worked out and the nuggets can resign their players my post will be considered complete fantasy under old CBA rules where nene signs an Al Jefferson type contract (12m in 2012),  Wilson Chandler is retained for marvin Wlliams money (around 8) and AAA is retained at whatever cost.  JR and Kmart are irrelevant


Anyway straight to the trade we basically get Dwight Howard

http://games.espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=3z56oyo - I used JR Smith in the trade machine for indicative reasons only,  it would be either Chandler, or Gallo but Orlando should take Wil because they have Turk there already.

This trade makes perfect sense for all teams.  Denver obviously gets D12 and still have a great team around him while getting rid of Harrington and moving Nene to PF. Detroit gets rid of Hamilton who has been nothing but a headache for them.
Orlando is an interesting one though.  Their situation is messed up,  if they can keep Dwight they cant give him very good support because their roster is in a terrible state.  In the case that they have to trade him it would be stupid to trade him without trading Arenas or else the black hole roster gets worse.

Thats where Denver comes in as a team with talented players, draft picks, cap space and appeal to howard.
Orlando must rid Arenas, get back a center (moz), draft picks (DEN 2012, NY 2014) and talent (Candler,Faried)
even after that the nuggets would end up like:

     DEN                                                 ORL

Dwight - 18 mil                          Moz - 3m
Nene - 12 mil                            Bass - 4m
Gallo - 4 mil                              Will - 7m
AAA - 6 mil                               Reddick - 7m
Ty - 2 mil                                  Nelson - 8m
----------------------                         ------------------------
Gil - 18 mil                                Rip - 12.5m
Birdman - 4 mil                          R. Anderson - 2m
J. hamilton - 1 mil                      Turk - 10m
Kouf - 2 mil                               Duhon - 3.5m                           
Forbes - 1 mil                            Clark/ Faried - 3m

Total = 67 mil                             Total = 61 mil

So after that we look good in terms of talent and finances, if JR and or Kmart were resigned then another 6-10 mil would be added to the total.  Orlando cuts a lot of salary and in a couple years Rip and Turk will be expiring and they will have good draft picks to build with. 

You may think theres no way we ever see dwight Howard in a nuggets uniform but if he decides to leave we have a strong chance in trading for him.  Orlandos only chance would be a complete blow up and tank so they would rather cut costs than get talent and Denver gives them the best option.  As for Howard agreeing to the extension,  I'd like to see him find another team who can take on him and Gil with still having a decent team.  If he left ORL through FA he could only go to Charlotte or sacramento or something.  He would completely destroy the western conference and would pull at least 3 championships here so I would do anything to get it done.


Additional notes -

•  Trade above must be completed before the trade deadline or the trade exception will expire.  without the TPE however the nuggets could still make a deal involving sending Nene to Orlando or another team for a lottery pick and expiring contracts and us keeping Faried. 
• Front loading Nene and Chandler/ Afflalos contract will even out the salary compensating Dwight and Gilberts increases and allow us to match Gallos
• Arenas' contract will come off the books along with Birdmans in time for Ty Lawsons new contract

All in all I would advise Masai Uriji to put a serious thought into dwight Howard this year.  Theres no way he would want to stick around in an Orlando team going nowhere and there are little to no teams that work better than a deal with Denver.  If you can think of a team with a better offer for Howard please write in the comments section (take into account Salary situation, team talent, Dwight/Magic wants and assets)