You hear Dwight Howard as one of the next big free agents to escape in 2012, and then you hear that if the Magic sense that maybe they do a peremptory strike like the Jazz and move Howard. And where else can you get a center but, say, Chicago with the University of Florida’s Joakim Noah? Howard to the Bulls? Never happen, I assume. It’s always why Michael Jordan didn’t want to play with a player like that. Derrick Rose’s strength is driving to the basket. Howard lives at the rim and doesn’t play pick-and-roll. It’s one reason the Magic have difficultly. Of course, Howard is better than Noah, but you need pieces that fit together, and I’d be surprised if the Bulls ever wanted to put a player like Howard with Rose.