Dwight Howard: The rise and fall of an all-star
By Harry Wahl
Washington Wizards: Exploring the rise and fall of Dwight Howard, once one of the most dominant players in the league
Dwight Howard has been a runner-up NBA MVP candidate, three-time Defensive Player of the Year winner and, most recently, on four NBA teams in four years. While one of the biggest victims of the small ball NBA era has had the highest highs and lowest lows throughout his 14 year career, there is still plenty of time for redemption.
Everything moves too fast nowadays. For instance, last season there were 1,230 regular season NBA games played and 82 post season games played. All games were filled with incredible moments such as highlight worthy dunks, buzzer beats, twitter beefs, and more.
Some moments were lucky enough to break through to the surface of NBA fandom. Others were briefly etched in Twitter before being washed away in an ever refreshing timeline. But most moments came and went.
Even the most fervent of fans can only absorb and retain so much information. At a certain point we’re off one moment and onto the next one. And this is not meant to disparage NBA twitter or how fans consumer content, but with how fast everything is moving it gets harder and harder for us to digest the moments that we do see.
So let’s stop for a moment, in the post free agency doldrums of the NBA summer to examine one player in particular. Let’s look at Dwight Howard. NBA’s once forgotten superstar.