Whazzzzz uuuuuup, ya’ll???? We got a game later against New Jersey, but I wanted to drop you guys a line before the game. Man, there’s a lot of former Magic guys on the Nets, although all of them are hurt. Courtney, Rafer and Tony helped us get to The Finals, and I guess the only one who might play against us is “Skip to My Lou.’’ And Keyon Dooling is out too with a hip problem.

I wanted to tell you guys about something a little different today. Rather than just focusing on our last game against Cleveland or the one coming up against New Jersey, I wanted to discuss some off-the-court stuff.

After all, ya’ll have heard me say before that basketball is just a part of my life and doesn’t totally define me as a person. Trust me, I want to win more than anybody else in the NBA and I wake up and go to sleep at night thinking about getting that gold ball in June. But there are other things in my life, too.

A couple of weeks back I visited Florida Hospital to try and lift the spirits of some of the little homies there. Those guys have such good hearts and such a good outlook on life even though they are sick. They just make me feel really good inside and put it all in perspective for me. When I do something like visiting those kids at the hospital, it doesn’t make losing a basketball game seem like the end of the world.

I got to go down there and pass out a few Superman capes to the kids and it was soooooooo cool seeing their smiles. Ya’ll know I had my cape on – the one I wore in the dunk contest last year. I signed a few of the capes for the kids and we played a lot of video games. Ya’ll know competitive I am, so I was in there trying to win everything. But I’ve got to say, they did get me a few times on NBA Live 10.

This program that we’re starting called “Dwight’s Big Change for Kids,’’ is actually pretty cool. We’re building a state-of-the-art game room especially for the teenaged kids who are sick and at Florida Hospital. It’s going to have flat-screen TVs, video games, board games and educational stuff, too.

I gotta say that I’ve seen the designs of the room, and it’s going to be pretty tight. I can’t wait to see the looks on some of those kids faces when they see all of the stuff in the new teen’s room.

I know we normally touch on basketball stuff here on the blog, but I thought ya’ll might want to know what else is going on in my life. After all, there’s more to life than basketball. If you can go out and help some of these sick kids some time, you should do it because I tell you it’s as much fun for me as it is those kids I think.

Well, I’m gonna run. Ya’ll be real and I’ll see ya at the arena.

—DWIGHT

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