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MY TALK WITH BILL RUSSELL

admin2 — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:43:41 +0000

During the Finals I had a chance to spend some time with one of my idols, Bill Russell. I felt so lucky to have a chance to get advice from such a great man and basketball player. Here’s the video:

—DWIGHT

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ORLANDO FANS DRESS UP AS WRESTLERS

admin2 — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:16:18 +0000

As some of y’all know, I’m a big fan of pro wrestling. The Macho Man, Hulk Hogan, and the Ultimate Warrior were some of my favorite wrestlers. Here’s video of some Magic fans impersonating some of my favorite wrestlers:

–DWIGHT

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WE’LL BE BACK!!!!!

admin — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 12:48:52 +0000

I really expected us to win last night and take this series back to L.A. where we’d have a chance to win the championship. Losing the way we did to the Lakers last night was hard because it’s difficult to see your dreams fade like that.

Of course, we wish a couple of things had gone differently in this series. If we had finished in Game 2 and Game 4, may be it would have been us trying to close out a fourth win last night win that ‘ship on our home court.

It was hard to do, but I stayed out there and watched the Lakers celebrate. Nobody wants to see another team celebrate on their homecourt, but me and ‘Meer stayed out there because we wanted to see it to make us hungrier the next time around.

And yes, there will be another time in the Finals for us. The NBA ain’t heard the last of the Magic in the Finals. I know nobody ever expected us to get this far at all this season, but maybe now people will see that we’re for real and we’re going to be good for several years to come.

Losing to the Lakers will hurt me for a long time. It might take me all summer to get over this one. But it will be fresh in my mind as soon as I get back in the gym and start working on my game. I know I have to get better and I’m going to do everything in my power to make myself a better player this summer.

To all you Magic fans out there, thanks for your support. We wanted to bring ya’ll a title, but I guess it just wasn’t meant to be this year. We’ll be back again, and ya’ll have my promise that we’ll do this in Orlando real soon.

I’m out. Peace. — DWIGHT

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HANGING OUT IN ORLANDO

admin2 — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 22:15:39 +0000

What’s up y’all? After our heartbreaking game 4 loss, I had to get out and clear my mind a bit. First I went to go grab a bite with some of my friends. I wanted to stop and get some McDonalds, but we ended up eating at Five Guys since it was right next to the movie theater. Five Guys is good and all, but their menu can’t compare to “the Golden Arches”. They don’t even have milk shakes!

Anyhow, while we were ordering, a fan offered to pay for my food. It was a nice gesture and all, but me and my friends eat waaaay too much to have any one fan pay for our food. Here’s video of me interacting with the fan:

After the movie, we went over to watch “The Hangover”. That mess was pretty funny. It was good to get out and hang out with my friends. It was also great to get to hang out with some of my fans in Orlando. Even though we are down in the series, every person I met out on Friday night showed me love. After the movie, I made sure to stop and take pictures with as many fans as I could. Here’s video of me at the movies:

Anyhow, let’s get this win tonight.

–DWIGHT

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SO FRUSTRATING

admin — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 10:02:46 +0000

I don’t know what to say. I just missed my free throws. We all missed them. It was just one of those nights when they weren’t going down for us. It’s so hard to explain because I have been working so hard on my free throws and making a lot of progress the last couple of weeks, but last night just wasn’t my night.

We feel like we let another game away from us. We had Game 2 and let the Lakers win. We feel like this one was right there for us and we gave the Lakers n ew life and they won it again in OT.

Those kind of losses are just so hard to handle, but I’ll tell you this: We ain’t quitting now. I’m not dropping my head and I won’t allow my guys to drop their heads either. We’re not rolling over and just giving the Lakers a championship.

We’ve come back from a lot of stuff in the playoffs, and I still feel like we can come back from this too. The only way we can do this is if everybody still thinks we can win the series. It starts with Sunday night, and when we get that win, we’ll try to get Game 6 back in LA.

Nobody is hurting more about what happened last night than me, but I’m not hanging my head. I wish I had those free throws back, but I can’t shoot them again. All I can do now is move on and try to do better next t ime.

Everybody – our team, our coaches and fans – have to keep believing that we can come back from this. I know we can. We’re not done yet ‘cause we got way too much fight in us to go out like this.

We’ll be back from this, ya’ll know that.

– D