Dwight Howard leaves NBA and joins Taiwan and Taoyuan Leopards

We know a few franchises that would have needed his meat in the racket, but Dwight Howard decided otherwise and so he joined the Asir and the Taiwanese Basketball League. So that’s the end – probably – of the story between the NBA and one of its greatest heroes, because remember that before becoming an honest replacement, Dwight Howard was one of the fiercest beasts that the NBA never mattered.

He is not part of the NBA 75, this unofficial list of the 75 best players in history, but for many observers he deserves it nevertheless. Judge by yourself : eight times All-Star, five times best rebounder in the League, twice best blocker, winner of the Slam Dunk Contest reserved for flight enthusiasts and, above all, NBA champion in 2020 and three times best defender of the year. Dwight Howard is Shaquille O’Neal’s successor among the superpowered pivots, Dwight Howard is a youth spent dominating on the Orlando side, Dwight Howard is 14 seasons in a row in double-doubles, and we could go on for hours both the No. 1 in the 2004 draft has filled his CV during his career in the NBA.

However ? However, it is sometimes a feeling of incompleteness that predominates. Here, no Orelsan or Gringe wandering the streets of Caen, but a potential GOAT at his post who will have wandered from Orlando to Philadelphia, via Los Angeles, Atlanta, Houston, Washington or Charlotte, ending his career by a seven-year road trip. franchises in seven years. Force of nature but character that you have to know how to manage, statistical machine but sometimes a state of mind to review, he himself has often made his own self-criticismand see you soon 37 years old and since no one has deigned to offer him a job in the NBA in 2022… Superman will therefore take his clicks, his snaps and his memories to take them to Taiwan, an exotic destination but a championship in which he is undoubtedly going shooting something like 48 points and 25 rebounds is good for morale as the saying goes.

Dwight Howard therefore joins the Taoyuan Leopards, we will avoid making jokes with the chain of words, and we know one who can make a number on the stats sheet, as throughout his NBA career finally. Because Dwight isn’t just anybody, after all.