The Orlando Magic are expected to announce the resigning of JJ Redick on Friday ESPN 1080 THE TEAM has learned.

Redick signed a 3yr, $19 million offer sheet with Chicago last Friday and the the Magic had a week to match.  Redick averaged career highs last year in Orlando in an expanded role and is expected to resume his role off the bench for the club next season. 

ESPN 1080 The Team has learned the Magic have signed Quentin Richardson to a multi-year deal believed to be worth the remainder of the mid-level exception.  Richardson played last season with the Heat starting for most of the year at small forward.  He averaged nearly 9 points and 5 rebounds a game.  He is a good three point shooter and basically replaces Matt Barnes on the roster.  Q is 30 years old and will be playing for his 5th team after previously appearing for the Clippers, Suns, Knicks, and Heat.

The question now is, will Orlando bring back JJ Redick?

The city of Cleveland should be disappointed.  They should be upset.  Yes, Lebron James has left.  That's one reason. 

But you should be more upset and disappointed your Cavs didn't win a title at any point in the last 7 years.  You should be upset your Cavs didn't put enough, or the right pieces around LeBron James to bring home a championship.  You should be upset that your team will be average to mediocre for the forseable future. 

You should not hate the man you cheered for because he left to go to a better team.  LeBron chose winning over money.  He chose happiness.  And he earned that right to choose where to go.  Cleveland, you didn't own the man.  He was born in your state and you hit the lucky ping-pong ball that gave you the #1 pick to select him.  He didn't choose you.  You won the lottery. 

And furthermore, he already resigned with you once.  He gave your team every chance.  He gave your city every chance.  If you were him, why would you come back?

Look, I don't think he handled himself as well as he could have on TV.  I think he could have been more thankful to the great Cavs fans. 

But you can't tell me, this bitter pill would have been easier to swallow if he just e-mailed or faxed that he was going to Miami.  HE WOULD STILL BE LEAVING.  You'd still be mad.  The media built this up.  He played along.  Let's be honest here, you are upset LeBron is leaving because  you don't get to cheer for him anymore and your team is no longer a title contender.  Period.  That's it.  All the other stuff is fluff.

Here is the letter from Dan Gilbert, owner of the Cavaliers to the fans:

Dear Cleveland, All Of Northeast Ohio and Cleveland Cavaliers Supporters Wherever You May Be Tonight;

As you now know, our former hero, who grew up in the very region that he deserted this evening, is no longer a Cleveland Cavalier.

This was announced with a several day, narcissistic, self-promotional build-up culminating with a national TV special of his “decision” unlike anything ever “witnessed” in the history of sports and probably the history of entertainment.

Clearly, this is bitterly disappointing to all of us.

The good news is that the ownership team and the rest of the hard-working, loyal, and driven staff over here at your hometown Cavaliers have not betrayed you nor NEVER will betray you.

There is so much more to tell you about the events of the recent past and our more than exciting future. Over the next several days and weeks, we will be communicating much of that to you.

You simply don’t deserve this kind of cowardly betrayal.

You have given so much and deserve so much more.

In the meantime, I want to make one statement to you tonight:

“I PERSONALLY GUARANTEE THAT THE CLEVELAND CAVALIERS WILL WIN AN NBA CHAMPIONSHIP BEFORE THE SELF-TITLED FORMER ‘KING’ WINS ONE”

You can take it to the bank.

If you thought we were motivated before tonight to bring the hardware to Cleveland, I can tell you that this shameful display of selfishness and betrayal by one of our very own has shifted our “motivation” to previously unknown and previously never experienced levels.

Some people think they should go to heaven but NOT have to die to get there.

Sorry, but that’s simply not how it works.

This shocking act of disloyalty from our home grown “chosen one” sends the exact opposite lesson of what we would want our children to learn. And “who” we would want them to grow-up to become.

But the good news is that this heartless and callous action can only serve as the antidote to the so-called “curse” on Cleveland, Ohio.

The self-declared former “King” will be taking the “curse” with him down south. And until he does “right” by Cleveland and Ohio, James (and the town where he plays) will unfortunately own this dreaded spell and bad karma.

Just watch.

Sleep well, Cleveland.

Tomorrow is a new and much brighter day….

I PROMISE you that our energy, focus, capital, knowledge and experience will be directed at one thing and one thing only:

DELIVERING YOU the championship you have long deserved and is long overdue….

Dan Gilbert

Majority Owner

Cleveland Cavaliers

Talk about sour grapes.  Way to place blame with the player, and not you or your team.  It sounds as if he didn't want LeBron back in Cleveland.  Your words would have been more manly had you said them before the decision. 

Sources: McNabb headed to Washington

The Eagles have reached agreement on a blockbuster intra-division trade that will send perennial Pro Bowl quarterback Donovan McNabb to the Redskins, according to multiple sources close to the situation.

Redskins acquired QB Donovan McNabb from the Eagles in exchange for the No. 37 overall pick in 2010, and a conditional fourth-round pick in 2011.
The 2011 pick can escalate to a third-rounder based on performance. It's also unclear if the Redskins extended McNabb's contract; he's entering the final year of his deal. Jason Campbell will move into the primary backup role in D.C., assuming the Skins haven't rescinded his restricted free agent tender. The Kevin Kolb era in Philadelphia has begun.  Mike Vick is the team's backup.

Sources said McNabb's contract, which has one year and $11.2 million left on it, scared off several other teams. McNabb is due a $6.2 million roster bonus on May 5 and is scheduled to become a free agent after the 2010 season.

At the league meetings, head coach Andy Reid said the Eagles were listening to offers for all three quarterbacks, including 11-year veteran McNabb, who quickly said on his Web site that he wanted a quick resolution to the trade conversations.

John Hollinger article from ESPN.com

You'll often hear casual basketball fans lament the lack of shooting in today's game, especially from the free throw line. But actually, we have the opposite problem: The current NBA is littered with great shooters. In fact, several of the best shooters of all time are currently on NBA rosters, and most of them are more or less in their prime.

Without leaving the top half of the Western Conference standings, for instance, I can point out names like Steve Nash, Dirk Nowitzki, Peja Stojakovic, Kevin Martin and Chauncey Billups, all of whom have put together multiple seasons that rank among the best shooting performances in history. That's to say nothing of the other great shooters in the league -- Ray Allen, Jason Kapono, free throw-record holder Jose Calderon, Ben Gordon, Kyle Korver … the list goes on and on.

But which one is the best of the best? Aye, there's the rub. We've never had a clear metric for ranking the game's best shooters … well, at least until today's ill-advised endeavor. That's right -- we're going to try ranking the best shooters in the game's history.

First, a caveat: By "history," we're limiting ourselves to the 3-point era. There were plenty of great shooters who played prior to that point, but we have no way to verify their cases statistically. In particular, it appears Calvin Murphy and Rick Barry -- two players from the 1970s who were renowned for their shooting range and rank among the top six free throw shooters of all time -- are slighted by today's methodology. Bill Sharman, Mike Newlin and Fred Brown also get my apologies.

OK, now for the method. My first step is to require players pass through a couple of fairly low "gates:" shooting 85 percent from the line with at least a 45 percent mark on 3s, or shooting 87.5 percent from the line with at least 42.5 percent made on 3s, or shooting 90 percent from the stripe with at least 40 percent made on 3s.

The point at this stage isn't to determine the best shooter of all time but to eliminate all the players we know darn well aren't the best shooter of all time. This does an efficient job, narrowing our list to 44 players.

From there, I set about creating a formula to rank the best shooters. I thought I'd have to dream up something very complex to adjust for all the variables involved, but it turned out a simple formula worked far better than any of my more exotic concoctions. I simply added a player's 2-point, 3-point and free throw percentages. We'll call this "Combined Shooting Rating," or CSR for short.

CSR works for a few reasons. First, the free throw is a pretty fair arbiter of shooting ability. It's the only true apples-to-apples measurement we have, because it's always 15 feet from the hoop and unguarded, regardless of what system the team runs or how the player is used. It's only one shot among many that need to be in a player's arsenal, but it's an important one.

Second, the yin and yang of 2-point and 3-point ability balance each other out. Some players are more effective midrange shooters than long-range marksmen, while others are more comfortable bombing away. And using this method makes the system more fair to players from the 1980s and early '90s, when teams didn't utilize the 3 as often or as effectively.

The one thing I left out was frequency. Obviously, players who pick their spots get higher-percentage looks than those who are the focal point of the offense on play after play. On the other hand, it's extremely difficult for players in the former group to shoot well enough from the line to crack the elite on this list, simply because of the lack of in-game repetition. Several snipers with great numbers from the floor (Brent Barry, for instance, or Hubert Davis) couldn't get into the top 10 because of free throw percentage, and even the second-ranked player on our list (one of the all-time snipers) has the worst free throw percentage of anybody in the top 10.

Also, I did set two minimum standards: 10,000 career minutes and 250 made 3-pointers. I didn't want anybody getting onto the list with a lengthy career sparsely populated with 3-point attempts; that seemed counter to the point of the exercise. While arbitrary, 250 nicely separated the truly deadly long-range shooters from the guys who merely hit midrange J's and made their free throws.

So now that our rather simple CSR method is clear, let's get to our list of the top 10 shooters, which also apparently doubles as a great predictor of post-career broadcasting, coaching and front-office opportunities. According to CSR, they are:

That's right: Steve Nash. By a mile.

I've always written that his shooting is his most underappreciated skill, but even so, this blows me away.

It makes sense, though -- run through the numbers, and Nash crushes every possible competitor. And it becomes even more impressive when one considers nearly all his shots from the field have come off the dribble. Nash and the fourth-ranked player on this list, Mark Price, are the only two players in history to shoot better than 50 percent on 2s, 40 percent on 3s and 90 percent from the line for their careers. And as it happens, Nash's general manager in Phoenix, Steve Kerr, is second on the list.

One strong point of this list is that it acknowledges a few of the game's great midrange shooters. Neither Chris Mullin nor Jeff Hornacek shot the 3 with great frequency, for instance, but both were deadly accurate when they did, and they were exceptional from 2-point range.

Fans of "Larry Legend" undoubtedly will be disappointed to see him ninth on this list and to see one player of his own size -- Stojakovic -- rank just ahead of him. But Bird's greatest asset was his ability to make high-difficulty shots, which would need to be part of a different list entirely -- a list that would include different players. (Kobe Bryant, for one obvious example, is nowhere close on the above list but would have to rank high on any list of tough-shot makers.)

If you're wondering about Nowitzki, he is 13th, and easily the best among players 6-foot-10 or taller. Players 11 to 20 on this list are Barry, Hersey Hawkins, Nowitzki, Davis, Korver, Mo Williams, Danny Ainge, Allan Houston, Scott Skiles and Glen Rice.

Before I exit, some players who didn't make my list warrant mentioning.

The first is Drazen Petrovic, who just missed my minutes cut-off because of his untimely death in 1993. Petro's rating of 1.799 would have put him fifth on the list, a fact that becomes even more impressive when one considers he was only 28 when he died -- most players improve their numbers on the above criteria well into their 30s.

The second is Calderon, who needs only 779 more minutes to crack the list; his 1.805 career mark would place him fifth. Calderon also has only 238 made 3s on his career and needs to make 12 more of those. You might think his free throw percentage carries him into the top 10, but actually it's his amazing 2-point field goal percentage that does it. Calderon has shot 53.4 percent for his career on 2-point shots, the best mark of any of the 44 players in this study.

Finally, two young players on the Golden State Warriors have established a great chance of finishing their careers near the top of this list. Rookie Stephen Curry is at 1.770 thus far in his brief career, and should that number hold up, he'll finish his career in the top 10. Since players' shooting often improves dramatically in their second through fifth seasons, he could finish as one of the top-ranked players of all time.

Then again, he also might finish second among current Warriors. Curry's teammate, Anthony Morrow, has played two NBA seasons as a part-time starter, and posted career marks of 48.8 percent on 2s, 45.9 percent on 3s and 87.6 percent from the line. That's good for a CSR of 1.822, which is better than every other player in history except Nash.

Obviously we're dealing with smaller sample sizes with those two, and it's possible they'll regress in future seasons. But when we discuss the great all-time shooters, those two are worth tracking in future seasons to see if they warrant a spot in the conversation.

John Hollinger- ESPN.com

Here is the schedule for the Orlando Magic this coming season.  All home games are listen in all caps.

October
Wed. 28    PHILADELPHIA    7 p.m.
Fri. 30    @ New Jersey        8 p.m.

November   
Sun. 1    @ Toronto        1 p.m.
Tue. 3    @ Detroit        7:30 p.m.
Wed. 4    PHOENIX        7 p.m.
Fri. 6    DETROIT        7 p.m.
Sun. 8    @ Oklahoma City    7 p.m.
Tue. 10    @ Charlotte        7 p.m.
Wed. 11    CLEVELAND        8 p.m. (ESPN)
Fri. 13    NEW JERSEY        7 p.m.
Mon. 16    CHARLOTTE        7 p.m.
Wed. 18    OKLAHOMA CITY    7 p.m.
Fri. 20    @ Boston        8 p.m. (ESPN)
Sun. 22    @ Toronto        12:30 p.m.
Wed. 25    MIAMI            7:30 p.m. (ESPN)
Thu. 26    @ Atlanta        8 p.m. (TNT)
Sat. 28    @ Milwaukee        9 p.m.
Sun. 29    @ New York        6 p.m.

December
Wed. 2    NEW YORK        7 p.m.
Sat. 5    @ Golden State        10:30 p.m.
Tue. 8    @ L.A. Clippers        10:30 p.m.
Thu. 10    @ Utah            10:30 p.m. (TNT)
Fri. 11    @ Phoenix        10:30 p.m. (ESPN)
Mon. 14    INDIANA        7 p.m.
Wed. 16    TORONTO        7 p.m.
Thu. 17    @ Miami        8 p.m. (TNT)
Sat. 19    PORTLAND        7 p.m. (NBATV)
Mon. 21    UTAH            7 p.m.
Wed. 23    HOUSTON        7 p.m. (NBATV)
Fri. 25    BOSTON        2:30 p.m. (ABC)
Wed. 30    MILWAUKEE        7 p.m.

January
Fri. 1    @ Minnesota        8 p.m.
Sat. 2    @ Chicago        8 p.m.
Tue. 5    @ Indiana        7 p.m.
Wed. 6    TORONTO        7 p.m.
Fri. 8    @ Washington        7 p.m.
Sat. 9    ATLANTA        7 p.m.
Tue. 12    @ Sacramento        10 p.m.
Wed. 13    @ Denver        9 p.m. (NBATV)
Fri. 15    @ Portland        10:30 p.m. (ESPN)
Mon. 18    @ L.A. Lakers        10:30 p.m. (TNT)
Wed. 20    INDIANA        7 p.m.
Fri. 22    SACRAMENTO        7 p.m.
Sat. 23    @ Charlotte        7 p.m.
Mon. 25    @ Memphis        8 p.m.
Thu. 28    BOSTON        8 p.m. (TNT)
Sat. 30    ATLANTA        7 p.m. (NBATV)
Sun. 31    @ Detroit        6 p.m.

February
Tue. 2    MILWAUKEE        7 p.m.
Fri. 5    WASHINGTON        7 p.m.
Sun. 7    @ Boston        2:30 p.m. (ABC)
Mon. 8    NEW ORLEANS        8 p.m. (TNT)
Wed. 10    @ Chicago        8 p.m.
Thu. 11    @ Cleveland        8 p.m. (TNT)
Wed. 17    DETROIT        7 p.m.
Fri. 19    DALLAS        8 p.m. (ESPN)
Sun. 21    CLEVELAND        1 p.m. (ABC)
Wed. 24    @ Houston        8:30 p.m.
Fri. 26    @ New Orleans        8 p.m.
Sun. 28    MIAMI            7 p.m. (ESPN)

March       
Mon. 1    @ Philadelphia        7 p.m. (NBATV)
Wed. 3    GOLDEN STATE    7 p.m. (NBATV)
Fri. 5    @ New Jersey        8 p.m.
Sun. 7    L.A. LAKERS        2:30 p.m. (ABC)
Tue. 9    L.A. CLIPPERS        7 p.m.
Thu. 11    CHICAGO        8 p.m. (TNT)
Sat. 13    @ Washington        7 p.m. (NBATV)
Sun. 14    CHARLOTTE        6 p.m.
Wed. 17    SAN ANTONIO        8 p.m. (ESPN)
Thu. 18    @ Miami        7 p.m. (TNT)
Mon. 22    @ Philadelphia        7 p.m. (NBATV)
Wed. 24    @ Atlanta        7 p.m.
Fri. 26    MINNESOTA        7 p.m.
Sun. 28    DENVER        6 p.m.

April   
Thu. 1    @ Dallas        8 p.m. (TNT)
Fri. 2    @ San Antonio        8:30 p.m.
Sun. 4    MEMPHIS        6 p.m.
Wed. 7    WASHINGTON        8 p.m. (ESPN)
Fri. 9    NEW YORK        7 p.m.
Sun. 11    @ Cleveland        1 p.m. (ABC)
Mon. 12    @ Indiana        7 p.m.
Wed. 14    PHILADELPHIA    8 p.m.