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It's advantageous for them because they move two substantial salaries, including one bad contract from a player whose given them mixed results. Go spend that money on a PG and/or a PF, while adding Dwight in place of their outgoing starter center and a guard they would not mind replacing.
Dwight will want an S+T no matter what, also, more $. A team with the cap space could do it for draft picks, sure, but I think Houston would prefer gaining financial flexibility. Not a too terrible deal for the Lakers either, they will need a center and likely a point guard, too.
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