NBA News: Newest Lakers Center Hopes Luck Changes This Time Around In Hollywood

DeAndre Jordan makes a return to Los Angeles, but this time with the Lakers.

All that was formalized on Thursday, September 9, after he was traded by the Brooklyn Nets to the Detroit Pistons. However, he was eventually waived.

As far as he is concerned, the 33-year-old holds no ill feelings with his former teammates Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving.

In an interview with ESPN, he revealed that their friendship remains intact even if his role on the team changed following the addition of other players like Blake Griffin, Nicolas Claxton, LaMarcus Aldridge and Paul Millsap.

"We're friends before basketball, after basketball and I think ultimately we all just want to be happy," Jordan said. "And being able to compete is something that's very important to me and they understand that. And we're brothers beyond basketball, so us being teammates or not isn't going to reflect on or affect our relationship."

The All-Star center also thanks the Nets for helping him find a win-win solution.

The trade to the Pistons was the way to go, and all else followed from there. He ends up earning $2.6 million from the Lakers but gets a chance to possibly win an NBA ring–something he was unable to do with the Nets and Los Angeles Clippers in his previous stints.

Jordan hopes that things take a different turn for him this coming season.

“I'm excited to be able to be here and jell with these guys and build chemistry and it's going to be a process but I think we're all ready and excited for it," he explained.

One person that Jordan may want to use as an example is Dwight Howard.

Howard had his shares of disappointments in the past but was somehow to reinvent himself in his second coming with the Lakers.