"Warcraft" Dwight Howard, once the league's first center, the existence of James alone, how did he step by step degenerate into relying on the "letter of guarantee" to get a basic salary?
Howard has won 1 All-Star Dunk Contest championship in his career, 8 times into the NBA All-Star Team, 5 NBA rebounding kings, 2 NBA block kings, 5 NBA best defensive teams, 3 NBA best defensive players, 1 NBA championship, 5 first teams, 1 second team, 2 times three teams, which is full of honors. However, throughout Howard's career, he could have ruled the league, but in the end he only fell to the level of an ordinary star, and even needed a "letter of guarantee" later in his career to get a base salary at the Lakers, which is sad and lamentable.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > magic period</h1>
In 2004, the Magic abandoned Okafor, who had won the NCAA championship, and instead selected Howard, a high school student, which was a rather risky choice, but it also reflected the importance the Magic attached to Howard. Howard also became one of three high school students in NBA history, the other two being the successful model LeBron James and the failed model Kwame Brown. Since then, Howard has started his career at the Magic, and Howard in the rookie season has shown great talent and improved rapidly. The team also firmly established the strategy of taking Howard as the core of the team, and established an offensive and defensive system around Howard. Howard also gradually embarked on the peak of his career.
During the Magic period, the team equipped Howard with four pitchers, which is also the primary form of "one star and four shots", thanks to Howard's explosive physical fitness and suitable tactical system, the Magic finally reached the finals, but faced with the Lakers in the sky, they finally broke the sand. Subsequently, the Magic record was not as good as a year, and Howard never practiced reliable low-level technology, a star who did not have the ability to host the ball offensively, and never became a superstar. Howard does not play tactics, obsessed with his unreliable low singles, tension with the coach, management, coupled with injury reasons, strengthened the Magic's determination to give up Howard. Eventually, Howard is sent to Los Angeles, and when people imagine Howard plus Kobe bryant becoming the next OK group to rule the league, they don't know that it's all just a beautiful fantasy.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > The Lakers period</h1>
The Lakers traded Howard, as well as Nash, with Kobe Bryant, Gasol to form a new generation of F4, but due to the run-in and aging of the lineup, the team's record is not good, although it eventually entered the playoffs, but due to Kobe's injury, the first round of the playoffs was eliminated. Howard then switched to the Rockets, ready to join forces with Harden to create glory. However, in the lakers Rockets game later, Kobe Bryant and Howard exchanged blows, allowing people to know a lot of insiders. The Lakers' defeat is not only the aging of the lineup, Howard's naturally optimistic attitude makes him play "happy basketball" on the court, while Kobe Bryant has a perverted level of paranoia about winning, such a personality difference, which makes it difficult for them to coexist. Howard's training attitude and loose state make Kobe hate iron and steel, and Howard does not know it, but feels that he threatens Kobe's position and is targeted by Kobe.
< h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > rocket period</h1>
Howard has been going downhill since being traded by the Magic, but he thinks he's still the man who can swap James. Dreaming of replacing Bryant with the Lakers as the new king of Los Angeles, he was taught by Kobe. After joining the Rockets, Howard still thinks about status, thinks about the ball, is not willing to do dirty work, and is unwilling to play with Harden to block and dismantle tactics, but reality gives Howard a heavy blow, and is finally swept out by the Rockets. Subsequently, Harden once said when he played with Howard: Except for dirty movements, you can't take us. When you were in the rocket, you didn't look so tough, you were a fake tough guy, a soft egg. The former league's number one center was humiliated on the court. Is this really the "happy basketball" that Howard wants?
Howard then began a wandering career, playing for the Hawks, Hornets, then being sent to the Nets, then being bought out by the Nets, and then joining the Wizards. Gradually from a superstar, to the point of no one caring. Although Howard's injury and age have made him unruly, the skinny camel is bigger than the horse, and Howard still has oil in his mailbox, but why is the team reluctant to sign him? First, its attitude towards basketball is not professional. Second, there are too many off-site non-existents, and there are constant troubles. The team will not sign a former star, and now can only play the internal line of the substitute to bear some adverse effects. That said, Howard's strength and value did not outweigh his negative impact.
The attitude on the field is worrying, the trouble outside the field is continuous, Howard is like a chicken rib, and it is a pity that the food is tasteless and abandoned. And the mistakes Howard made in his early years, which broke out when he was about to fail to play, became a negative asset that no team in the league was willing to take over. And the turning point happened in the Lakers, Howard wanted to play, wanted to show himself on the big stage, and the Los Angeles Lakers were the first choice. At that time, the Lakers looked down on Howard, and Howard's team was helpless, and finally Howard took the initiative to pledge to the Lakers that he was "willing to do anything for the Lakers", and it is said that with James's persuasion, the Lakers gave Howard a one-year unsafe contract (which may be cut at any time). It's really sad and deplorable.
The Lakers took in Howard in their most difficult moments. And Howard finally turned back to the prodigal son, put himself in the right position, repaid the Lakers with excellent performance, helped the Lakers win a championship, and his career was also considered complete. And now Howard is back in the Lakers again, although the prodigal son has turned back, has a positive attitude, and there is no trouble off the court. But the league is always a generation of new people for the old, no matter what the reason for the contradiction between Howard and Davis, the superstar of the former league, in full view of the public, was reprimanded, which is really emotional.
At his peak, Howard was indeed dominant on the defensive end, but lackluster on offense. And its "happy basketball" attitude, training is not serious, the court likes to play giant planet, regardless of the team as a whole, the private life under the court is chaotic, trouble is continuous, more injury causes, so that the former league's first center, fell to the point where there is almost no ball to play. Not only is Howard's own reason, but it also reflects the fierce and cruel competition in the league, and its concept of "happy basketball" has also been proved to be unsuitable for this league. And the humiliation that Howard suffered in his twilight years is not the foreshadowing of the arrogance of his youth. Just in response to that sentence, who the heavens spared, sooner or later they will have to pay it back.