It will all boils down with the offer, with the current team, he is only paid less than $10 million while in NBA, he can earn more than that.
His stats now will dictate if he still got that Linsanity in him and if the NBA sees him improving back to his old self, I think an offer would be possible.

We know Lin loves to play in the NBA so much as he is a citizen in the US so most of his life is spent in US and playing in the NBA is like playing back to his homeland again. But like I said, it's up to the NBA teams, if they are interested with Lin, we might be able to see him play again in a specific team.

That's a big challenge for Howard, not the salary he was use to receive but at least he knows that his market is going down, he needs to step up playing with the lakers if he want to earn a decent amount of contract again and will play with the Lakers.

No guarantee with the current contract for Howard so this is going to be a performance-based contract. To determine if the contract with him on Lakers will go on, he has to perform very well.

I think this much better rather than with the other players situation where there's no team willing to take them even for this kind of contract.

I think if this kind of contract was offered to Lin, he would not refuse and will stay in the NBA.
IIRC they both played together with the Lakers before, so they already know each other and lin is a good back up PG who can consistently shoot and drive the ball, but that's only possible if Lebron again will give way, we know he sometimes act as point especially in crucial situations.

Good to see that, but the guy that is guarding him is not his size, it's gonna be difficult for him if the person who will guard him is a 7 footer like him.
But I have to appreciate that as it's an improvement, he has range now but let's see if he can apply that in the regular season. What he needs to improve and focus is his FT shooting as he can be foul easily if he drives inside since he is strong, I'm hoping to see a video of his FT shooting share here.

We don't know if this contract was also offered to him but if so, that tells us he doesn't want to have this contract.

I guess he wasn't offered any contract, otherwise it will be in the news headlines, also if that same amount was offered to Lin, I think that's a decent amount and condition considering Lin is not anymore on his top shape, but let's forget about that, I know he is already happy now playing with Beijing Ducks as he also receive a million dollars contract.

Lol, why develop his mid-range shooting and why not his free throws? Let Lebron et al, do the shooting and Dwight will be crashing the board for those rebounds and he is gonna be fouled for that put back then shoot FT  . Free throws is the dent on the armor of Howard and i don't think he has improve on that aspect of his game.

He just have to secure the offensive rebound in case Lebron will miss, but Lebron will rarely miss actually when he is driving the ball to the basket, that's his strength but he is not a consistent outside shooter. I notice in his past games, if he relies a lot in jump shooting, he can't generate more points and it will be easy for their opponent to guard him, but when he drives, he can throw the ball outside and look for an open shooter, which they should have that this next season.

Do not believe everything you see on practice courts guys, first of all this is training and almost all players hit almost all their shots in training and Howard was a 80%+ free throw shooter in training for a whole off season, so someone shooting well from anywhere is not an indication of how good of a player he is.

For example, check out the training videos of "Jeff Ledbetter" on youtube, dude is a player for Austin spurs in the g-league (g-league team of San Antonio spurs) and in that video you will see that Jeff Ledbetter actually shoots like hell and he never misses and the way he moves, basically dude looks like a superstar NBA player, not even just a regular NBA player, dude looks like a superstar, like above all-star level. But he is not on NBA, why? Because practice is a lot different than the game, and I mean A LOT different.