The Los Angeles Lakers have rebuffed overtures from the Los Angeles Clippers about a sign-and-trade for Dwight Howard.
Howard and Chris Paul have reportedly been in touch about the possibility of playing with each other next season.
"They will never do it," said a source on the Lakers' interest in working with the Clippers on a Howard trade.
Howard will be a free agent and the Lakers hope to re-sign him.
Sources have told ESPN's Marc Stein that the Clippers would want to trade Blake Griffin and Eric Bledsoe to the Lakers for Howard.