(Dwight) Howard will be a free agent at the end of this season. I (T.J. Simers) ask him if he knows now where he will be playing next year, and he says, “I know.”

I suggest that means the Lakers because he could not know of any other opportunity at this time. But I still make a pitch for the Clippers, figuring he might want to play for the best team in town.

He laughs, and when I suggest that some opine that if this season falls apart it will persuade him to leave, he says that’s not the case.

He says the Lakers are all about championships, and “what’s not to like about L.A.?”

via T.J. Simers of the Los Angeles Times