NBA Trade Rumors: Lakers Favorites to Land Dwight Howard After Lopez Injury?

What a wild turn of events the NBA world is. One minute, you're down and out without a future, and the next, you're riding high with improved expectations.

This explains the Los Angeles Lakers situation after word came in that New Jersey Nets center Brook Lopez will be going under surgery to repair a stress fracture in his foot. The injury is set to keep him out as much as six weeks, and he won't return until most likely sometime in February.

How does this affect the Lakers? Well, Lopez was meant to be the main piece of a trade betwee...

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