Who is Stan Pau

After two years of trade requests and petulance and a stock-lowering season with the Lakers, it's time for the Dwight Howard free agency sweepstakes—and four teams have emerged as potential landing spots should Howard decide to leave L.A. This is not a competition for a typical max player. If Howard's not damaged goods, he's at least slightly cursed. He forced Stan Van Gundy out, even as he spent a year trying to leave Orlando. When the Lakers gave up Andrew Bynum in a four-way trade to get Howard, every team won the deal—except the ones who got Howard or Bynum. He battled injury in Los Angeles, and played on an old, injury-wracked roster, and even as the Lakers seemed to get it together for a playoff run, Kobe Bryant went down. The fact is the Lakers have no idea how Howard fits in on their roster, even as other potential free agency destinations could be forgiven for fearing the worst-case scenario: a surly, ineffective, four-year albatross. But he's still a damned good big man, one of the league's best, and he's just 27. The Lakers paid a grand total of $129.5 million for their roster ...