Dwight Howard is open to potential Lakers return after storied history with franchise

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and basketball.After three nonconsecutive stints with the Los Angeles Lakers, the 38-year-old revealed if he would ever play for the iconic West Coach franchise again.“I would definitely go back to the Lakers,” Howard exclusively told The Post on Tuesday before his “Dancing With the Stars” partner Daniella Karagach quipped, “I’m getting him in shape.”“Right now, it’s all about me and Danny,” the 6-foot-10 athlete said about his partnership with the professional dancer. “No teams, just me and Danny.”Earlier this month, Howard and Lakers owner Jeanie Buss, 63, had an emotional conversation on his “Above the Rim With DH 12” podcast.“I was so sad.

I wanted to come back,” the eight-time NBA All-Star explained. “And I don’t know what had happened.”“You took an offer from the Philadelphia 76ers,” Buss said.During the conversation, the pair cleared the air about the end of his second and most successful stint with the Lakers, in the 2019–2020 season.The 2004 first-round pick insinuated that his former agent had led him to believe that Buss and the team were not interested in re-signing him.Howard’s former agent, Charles Briscoe, pleaded guilty last year for his role in defrauding Howard of $7 million in a scheme to buy the WNBA’s Atlanta Dream.Briscoe’s co-conspirator Calvin Darden Jr.

was convicted by a federal jury in Manhattan earlier this month.“I think that we were just told so many different things,” Howard told Buss on his podcast. “And I think now looking back on it with the situation that I had with my agent … I don’t even know what the truth was, because what I was told was that you guys didn’t have an offer for me.”But Buss made it clear that there was no tomfoolery on her end.“Oh, no, that’s not true,” she stated..