It’s the middle of August, and while the nights in Los Angeles are calm, cool, and flirty(???), the NBA is a barren desert, void of takes and generally anything interesting. Everyone is on vacation. Daryl Morey can say James Harden is better than Michael Jordan and no one really has the energy to fight about it. Usually nothing exciting is happening in the NBA world this time of year, but we’ve been given a reprieve in the form of Dwight Howard.
The world’s last fart-joke enthusiast and likely Hall-of-Fame center is a target of the Lakers in the wake of the DeMarcus Cousins’s injury, a league source told SI late last week.