When fate and circumstance intervene, the results can be quite interesting. For the LA Lakers and Dwight Howard to reconnect, the word interesting is probably an understatement.



Howard reached an agreement on a contract buyout with the Memphis Grizzlies on Friday and will sign a one-year, non-guaranteed $2.6 million deal with the Lakers once he clears waivers, league sources told The Athletic.



Once the Lakers learned of DeMarcus Cousins’ torn left ACL earlier this month, the next sequence of events led the franchise and Howard to come together again. Six years after Howard bolted the Lakers as a free agent, after a 2012-13 season of acrimony and disappointment, he and the Lakers needed each other.



After Cousins’ diagnosis, Lakers general manager Rob Pelinka and Howard’s agent, Charles Briscoe of Briscoe Sports Management, spoke in general terms about the possibility of Howard, who at the time was working on an inevitable buyout with Memphis.