Former LeBron James Teammate Wants Lakers To Bring Back Fan Favorite

The Los Angeles Lakers secured most of the players on the roster, but they can still add a fan favorite. The team has been linked to several players, but Kendrick Perkins wants them to add former Lakers big man Dwight Howard. He has great experience with the team and LA could use another familiar name at this point.

“No one had a better offseason than the Los Angeles Lakers from what they started with a year ago,” Perkins said on the July 10 episode of NBA Today. “Now, do they need to finish it? Absolutely. And they need to go out and they need to either re-sign Tristan Thompson and bring him back or go out and get a guy that won the NBA championship for you … and I know he’s older, but it’s always great to have an adult in the room that’s gonna know his role in a guy like Dwight Howard.

“I feel like that would also be a perfect fit. But as far as Rob Pelinka, he did his thang, he did his thang.”

"I know in my prime… it's a wrap."

Dwight Howard explains why he's better than Jokic in his prime. pic.twitter.com/JVnDdaV7Ew

— Complex Sports (@ComplexSports) July 7, 2023

The Lakers have a reason to get the fan favorite

Howard joined the T1 League in Taiwan last season, but he would love to play in the NBA again.

The big man was brilliant during his time with the Lakers. Howard was great Laker and the franchise would be happy to have him around again.

“It’s been crazy. It’s been crazy, but it’s just for some reason we just clicked,” Howard told Zion Olojede from Complex. “I don’t know, you could have a little girlfriend or whatever and it’s just, y’all done been together, y’all done broke up. You done tried other girlfriends but it’s just some type of connection y’all got.

“That’s how we feel about the Lakers. Man, it’s just something that we got this connection. I don’t know. It got to work. It got to work. But I do love the Lakers, man. We had the championship run there and I wish we would’ve had a chance to keep going because that was the squad right there. We had everything. Had everything.”