Dwight Howard

Dwight Howard probably wouldn’t be a member of the Atlanta Hawks if it weren’t for Grant Hill, one of the team’s minority owners. True story. Per ESPN.com’s Marc Stein: Grant Hill was a big part of the process,” Howard said of the Hawks’ minority owner and former fellow Orlando Magic star in an interview that [...]

For Dwight Howard, his fourth NBA team is the charm. Or so he hopes. The 30-year-old big man agreed to a four-year deal worth $70.5 million with the Atlanta Hawks shortly after free agency began, a move that likely became the impetus behind Al Horford’s departure. And now, after a disastrous season with the Houston [...]

Los Angeles Lakers vice president and part-owner Jim Buss apparently believed his team would land Kevin Durant, Carmelo Anthony and Russell Westbrook, in addition to re-signing Dwight Howard. He also probably though Jesus Christ himself would take a pay cut to play in Hollywood. Only one of these things isn’t true, according to Bleacher Report’s [...]

Dwight Howard has already set up two meetings to start the NBA’s 2016 free-agency period, and the Houston Rockets aren’t one of them. According to ESPN.com’s Chris Broussard and Marc Stein, Howard will talk shop with the Atlanta Hawks and Boston Celtics first, before moving on to other teams: The Atlanta Hawks and Boston Celtics [...]

Dwight Howard is now a free agent. As expected, the big man opted out of the last year of his deal with the Houston Rockets, according to The Vertical’s Shams Charania: [tweet https://twitter.com/ShamsCharania/status/745374808385462272] The big man was slated to earn around $23.3 million next season, a salary no other team is likely to match now [...]

Dwight Howard’s departure from the Houston Rockets may not be such a formality after all. No, really, I mean that. Even though I’ve wrote extensively on the contrary, and even though I still believe Dwight Howard will leave in free agency, the Rockets don’t appear ready to torch this bridge just yet. Hiring Mike D’Antoni [...]

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There is no feasible scenario in which Dwight Howard will be on the Houston Rockets next season. This isn’t about the team’s courtship of Mike D’Antoni, a coach Howard never truly meshed with while on the Los Angeles Lakers. It is not about his mysterious relationship, or lack thereof, with fellow superstar running mate James [...]

Dwight Howard isn’t ready to admit that he and James Harden are not the ideal superstar pairing. Not yet, anyway. While making an appearance on TNT’s Inside The NBA, Howard, who can opt out of his contract and become a free agent this summer, wouldn’t doom his partnership with Harden to utter futility, per Jonathan [...]

We can go ahead and file this in the “No Sh**t Sherlock” category of NBA news and rumors, but a report surfaced Wednesday, hours before the Rockets Game 5 match-up with the Warriors that Dwight Howard is likely bolting Houston this summer. [tweet https://twitter.com/CreamCityCtral/status/725392392883429376] If you had any doubt how enthusiastic Howard is about being [...]