Those are legit points LarBrd33 and well stated. Two questions for me are:
How much would LA have to give up in a trade to get Howard now - for me if I'm Orlando Bynum is not nearly enough and if Orlando is on the markets, good teams should be lining up to put a package together. Bynum is talented, maybe mores than Howard, but he's really injury prone. I'd rather take back a package centered around, for example, Ibaka / Harden or Hibbert / George than something around Bynum and certainly over a Chandler / Stoudemire package. Chandler's a role player at $15 mil and Amar'e is 31 next season, a couple seasons away from significant decline and/or a bad landing away from anothe rknee issue...
2. If LA doesn't get Howard in trade, they will very likely have no cap room to sign him in the off season without unloading some major talent elsewhere...which means they'd probably have to gut the team, Pau and Kobe have another couple years in 'em at a "high level" - what's their core look like, the young talent?
I completely agree he'd be a good fit their right now with Kobe and Pau and he probably would like to go their as one option but I'm not sure how he gets there and still had a team around him...