Dwight Howard on FA: "I would love to come back and play for the Lakers again. Hopefully, this year, they give me a contract. I don't want to play for free anymore. This year, it was like, 'OK, I'll do whatever.' But I think I've earned... a contract."

Charania The Lakers have made it clear that they want him back but the one thing I do know is that multiple contenders are already circling If LeBron is really going to hit the open market and decide and have a true free agency he's not going to have a shortage of teams

Windhorst It's been communicated to me that the number one thing for LeBron next season is happiness not money I have clearance to use this quote attributed to Rich Paul 'The Lakers are not and will not annoy us'

Windhorst LeBron's intention is to play and the focus right now is making a deal with the Lakers They are negotiating I think he's going to try and make a deal with the Lakers The league generally believes the two sides are going to come together

Charania I'm told over the last 24-48 hours the Lakers came to the understanding that Austin Reaves had multiple max contracts available to him in free agency The Detroit Pistons were coming aggressively for him So that's why today the Lakers stepped up to give him this deal

Michael Beasley on playing Dwight Howard Do it to him with no condom Real raw

Windhorst The Los Angeles Lakers would be very open to the prospect of trading LeBron James for Jarrett Allen