Howard Has Already Told The Lakers He Will Sign A Five-Year Contract Extension Next Summer

It wasn't too long ago that Magic Johnson looked into a TV camera and said what most Lakers fans were thinking: "Jim Buss, brother, you have a job to do.

"I'm telling you right now, because if you don't do it, you're going to hear from me."

So here he was again Thursday night, Magic bursting with excitement and saying over and over again, "Wow!"

Holy Chris Paul, NBA Commissioner David Stern still has to confirm the Lakers are championship-worthy by allowing Dwight Howard to officially join the team, but wow indeed.

The Lakers have positioned themselves to essentially surrender Andrew Bynum for Howard in a four-team deal. Bynum is now going to do his handicap parking in Philadelphia.

And Howard has already told the Lakers he will sign a five-year contract extension next summer, standing to make more money while playing out this season.

"That's what makes this even more exciting and why I said what I did," says Magic, who had a chat with Howard a couple of weeks ago. "We now will have our superstar when Kobe is gone. This is what the Lakers are."

Reporters across the country had it all wrong much of Thursday, suggesting it would take Bynum as well as Pau Gasol to make this work. But the Lakers apparently were not so crazy.

They can now team Howard and Gasol together with Kobe Bryant and Steve Nash, making the Lakers the favorites going four-on-five with almost any team in the league.

"This makes them ahead of Oklahoma City and I think they will win the championship,” Magic says, and everyone can only hope the Lakers dismiss Miami just as easily. “It’s just unbelievable."


Now how many times have folks pronounced Buss the spoiled kid who was going to run the Lakers into the ground, only to learn now that he just might have his father’s touch.

Everyone dismissed Buss as a Bynum lover, funny now when you consider he pushed to draft him and then turned him into Howard.

“I love it,” says Magic. “Jim, you look like your father; I’m proud of you. He’s definitely the guy now to win the NBA executive-of-the-year award. My compliments to Jim and Mitch Kupchak; they had the knowledge and fortitude to hang in there and get it done.

“They now deserve a great vacation and the appreciation of Laker fans, and really, basketball fans everywhere. All four teams in this deal are going to be better for it.”

Who really knows if Howard’s back is all right after surgery? He’s been in Los Angeles undergoing rehab, telling me a few weeks ago at Dodger Stadium he will be ready for the start of the season.

Who knows if he will learn to coexist with Kobe?

He told the Lakers a year ago he did not want to play here because it was Kobe’s team, and Kobe didn’t say the right things Howard needed to hear in a telephone conversation. But now I’m hearing they have made nice. And Howard is probably aware that Kobe is signed so far to play only two more years here.

Dwight Howard to be a Laker; one word from Magic Johnson: 'Wow' - latimes.com

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Lakerswon

werent u slurping bynum 3 days ago?

This!

that's my bynum stan [pic]

Good i hope so

I think the fact that he doesn't sign it now probably doesn't guarantee anything. Maybe he plays this season and doesn't think it could work with Kobe. Maybe Mark Cuban blows him away in the off season. Nothing is a sure thing. How the !! is anyone gonna trust a word out of this guy's mouth after all that's happened the last year?

But, but, buuut, he didn't sign the extension, he's just a rental.

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Hell yeah we did [pic]

its true. bynum is better in the post and hes still the #1 center in the league.

[pic] until kareem shows him some !! that will be the verdict


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b b b b but the lakers will be a lottery team once kobe leaves

bbbbb but they have no cap space

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means absolutely nothing coming from his mout until he actually does it.







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im still slurping bynum so what are you getting at he who thinks portland is a state ? [pic]

worry about those bum[..] knicks and whre they are going [pic]

damn, dedos hasnt posted yet? damn!

way too much cap space for that to happen. stop letting your jealousy and envy make you type foolish things.

[pic] how would u feel if a white man called u a coon ? you wouldn't like it so stop calling your fellow brothers coons.

yeah Howard has shown hes trustworthy [pic]