J.J. Redick admitted that Dwight Howard’s trade demand has affected the Magic’s locker room dynamic.

“It is,” Redick said. “Yeah, it is. I’ve said since the beginning: As long as he’s here, it will be a distraction because it’s all anybody talks about when they talk about our team. We don’t hear it? Of course we do.

“But we also have to be professionals, do our jobs, and for the first 15 games we did that. And I don’t think that Dwight’s trade situation made us play so badly these last few games.”

The Magic have lost five of their past six games.

“Chemistry is a very fragile thing, the team dynamic of how guys rely on each other, how guys trust each other,” Redick said. “All that stuff is very fragile. Those Boston losses may have had an impact on us, but we’ve got to get over that and get on with the season.”