Thirteen years ago, Howard led the team to the finals as the first core and took over the mantle of his predecessor O'Neal.
Thirteen years later, he is about to leave for Taiwan, a treasure island, to continue his last basketball years.
In the first half of his career, he was the real ruler of the post-center era, achieving the best results since the Sharks, the center led the team, three consecutive best defensive players is even more than a big dream, after 2014, his reputation and strength dropped sharply, which made him in the second half of his career, upheaval, tossing and turning, and even thick eyebrows pointed at him, at the end, his hip-hop personality made him rejected by the 75, we can't help but sigh, what kind of player is Warcraft?
Looking back at the Magic team, almost all of them were blessed by Howard's center, Lewis, Tecoglu, Nelson's defense was like air, but under the coverage of Howard's top defense, they could connect to the Cavaliers Green Army and reach the Finals, offensively, they relied on Howard's traction on the inside line, brushed up bright data, and won a big contract, after Howard left Los Angeles, Lewis was revealed, Tecoglu, and Nelson quickly disappeared.
In terms of team impact alone, Howard during the Magic may be the real defensive masterpiece in NBA history. He seems to have all the conditions to become a historic center, but the turning point came after joining the Lakers, the back injury during the magic period was not completely healed, Los Angeles' high attention was exchanged for various public opinions, and Ao Fat has repeatedly PUA this little brother: super centers have to play low-position singles. But in fact, Howard, who idolizes KG, has never been a perfect offensive starting point, and Kobe's so-called championship pressure makes the big boy seem extremely uncomfortable, and then the internal contradictions of the Lakers F4 completely broke out, Howard's reputation began to decline, and a large part of the reason for not being selected into the top 75 was related to this period.
After that, the era of small ball came in full, Howard's game influence was significantly reduced, the more teams to turn, people repeated the remarks about the decline of Howard's strength, and when he joined the Lakers again, the former top center has completely reduced to blue-collar work, fortunately, the only championship, rare comfort to this big boy.
It is difficult to evaluate Howard, when he was at his most talented, he could only be in the bitter cold of Orlando, and Los Angeles failed to give him a suitable space for transformation, and the story after that was embarrassing, but despite this, this unlucky big boy won three best defensive players with his unparalleled strength, and for young fans who have not witnessed O'Neal playing, Warcraft is the best representative of a power center.
There is such a sentence in the annals of history, the god of feathers is brave, and it is unique through the ages.