Dwight Howard Rumors: Los Angeles Lakers' Matt Barnes Says Howard "Want[s] to Be Here"

No offense to Barnes, but I kinda feel like he’s just trying to spread some hype.
As currently construced, the Lakers won’t have cap space to sign Howard next summer. As long as the Magic don’t trade him there, there’s no way Howard can end up in L.A.
L.A. has nothing of value that I as a Magic fan would want on my team. Not Bynum, Not Gasol, Not Odom, Not World Peace…. Meta that is!

I picture this is somewhat how the convo went down:

Barnes & Howard run into each other at a mutual friends party/house/charity event/whatever where they exchange pleasantries and…
Barnes asks Dwight, "So whats up man? You got your plan for what your doin next year or what?"
Dwight: "Nah man, just still tryin to figure out what to do, you know how it is."
Barnes: "True, true. You should come out to LA man, you’d LOVE it out here. The weather, the women, man."
Dwight: "Haha, yeah man, I know! I’d be nice out here, the Lakers are one of those dream places to play."
Barnes: "Haha, yeah man, you know it…"

a couple seconds pass and the two say something along the lines of "Alright man, Ima go talk to a couple people but I’ll catch up with you later." type-deal.

They didn’t seem that close when Matt was here and he tends to be a talker, so I really don’t put much stock into anything any what he or anyone of the like has to say on the matter.

Anyone else who believes Mr. Barnes is either: A. a Lakers fan, or B. a moron.

this must all be very sickening. I’m secretly hoping Dwight stays in Orlando.

Dear Matt,

If you wanted to play with Dwight, you had a chance. Shouldn’ta tweeted, bro.

Love,

Otis

so of course Otis is going to end up making that trade.

And I can’t really figure it out exactly. Nothing about those franchises is a real improvement for him long term. For the Magic’s sake, it would be best if Dwight is just milking this because he’s an attention whore and can’t help himself. If it’s not, oh boy. We just witnessed a long CBA fight about money that was upheld in the name of “competitive balance”, and yet, the next CBA will be about stars playing where they want to play. Both sides will have valid arguments, and the game will again be threatened by numerous things.

I’m beginning to wonder why fans aren’t just turning on the whole system and ignoring it. That’s the only real actual change that will convince owners or players to act differently.