Dwight Howard plans on retiring with the Wizards and believes he’s got a long way to go before the end of his career, Chase Hughes of NBC Sports Washington relays. Howard was signed to a two-year deal worth approximately $11MM after being bought out by the Nets, who traded with the Hornets for his contract in a salary dump. Howard said during a press conference he anticipates playing “the rest of my career” with Washington. Howard, 32, also doesn’t see the finish line in sight. “For me, I plan on playing this game for another good eight years,” he said.
In other news regarding the Wizards:
- Guard Chris Chiozza, who played on the Wizards’ summer-league team, was one of the top undrafted rookies in Las Vegas, according to Bryan Kalbrosky of HoopsHype. He averaged 7.4 APG and his assist percentage (40.1) was the second-best among all qualified rookies. The 6-foot Chiozza, who played four collegiate seasons at Florida, remains unsigned.
- Free agent signee Jeff Green believes the Wizards can make a run similar to the Cavaliers’ trip to the Finals last season, Hughes reports in another story. Green, a rotation player in Cleveland last season, signed a one-year, veteran’s minimum deal with Washington. “Getting to the Finals and being part of that was beyond amazing,” he said. “With the experience and seeing what it took, I can bring that here and get everybody on the same page of knowing what it takes and the sacrifices that you have to do to get to that point.”
- Point guard John Wall said the Wizards have had a “pretty interesting” summer and feels Howard still has something left in the tank, he told Chris Miller of NBC Sports Washington in a podcast. “Even though [Howard] is older, he’s still an athletic big averaging 16 and 12,” Wall said. “Not only do you get more layups, probably, you get more wide-open threes.”
Lol. Dwight said that about Houston, Atlanta and Charlotte too.
Also Jeff Green, does that mean the wizards will trade half their team at the deadline too,?
Well DH12 keeps getting traded, that’s not on him, he might very well have wanted that, but loyalty doesn’t exist, at least on the side of teams so, doesn’t mean much that a player wants to stay on a team long term, if the team doesn’t they will kick you quickly enough, I hope it goes well with him in Washington, it can be a very good pairing with Wall, I can see them maybe in the top 4 in the east with Philly, Milwaukee & Boston.
cesc, do you also appear on this site as Dionis?
Not Howard’s fault he continually gets traded? It’s 100% his fault that a guy with his skill level continues to be dealt.
He has put in 0% effort to improve his game over his decade and a half in the league. He seems like a nice guy when he’s interviewed, but every situation he has been in that has gone, he brings it down to “misunderstandings”. His teammates in those situations bring it down to him being lazy, and not well liked. He’s not getting moved every year because he’s so desirable, he’s getting moved because the team he’s with just wants rid of him.
Washington has no chance, barring major injuries, of ending up ahead of Toronto, Philly, Boston, Milwaukee or Indiana.
Agree. He’s a cancer on every team he’s on. Most of the reports here in Charlotte was he was hated in the locker room and often wouldn’t run plays that were called.
Wall will be done with him after this year and he’ll be off to break up te next team.
Lol Jeff Green finals experience last year
Dwight: “I plan to play for eight more years!”
Dwight’s knees and shoulders: “Hold on a second, Big Guy…”