First off, one of the best blogs out there is Third Quarter Collapse, an Orlando Magic blog.  If you're not reading it, do. 

Now on their site, there's a post about the rumor sending Chucky Atkins to Orlando.  There are a few different versions of this rumor, and you can read them all there.  Basically, it's either:

* Atkins for Brian Cook

* Atkins for Keith Bogans

* Atkins for a $3 mil trade exemption

This rumor has been around for a few weeks, and my immediate thought was "let's do the Cook rumor" because he would give us size which we desperately need.  Then I carefully watched Cook in a few games.  You know how I was wrong about Birdman this year?  I was even more wrong about Cook being competent.  He looked horrible.  So let's scratch that one off.  While I like Bogans, I ultimately think the best thing we could do would be to dump Atkins for the exemption.  It gets us under the luxury tax (huge plus for Stan) and frees up a roster spot so we can get Juwan back.  We NEED size up front.  I have been bitching about it for weeks.  If we're going to keep Kleiza (shoot me now), we need to do something else that allows us to get another big up front.  I love Balkman, but he's a three who can play spot minutes at the four.  We're getting killed when he's our primary backup 4.  And the lineup with LK at the four is even worse.

Thoughts?