[Senator Clay Davis]

Realistically Howard is going nowhere. Brooklyn is where he wants to go but they are out of the picture now with how much money they have commited to their guys (taking the Joe Johnson contract sealed that deal). Dallas and Atlanta are the other possibilities, but Dallas will not be much better off than the Lakers and Atlanta might have a decent chance cause its home and the East is easier than the West. Plus there's always the fact he can only sign a max deal with the Lakers, everywhere else he'd be signing for less. I'd be quite shocked if he left.