The new developments come as a bit of a shock to some other teams around the league, especially the Houston Rockets. As ESPN reports, Houston general manager Daryl Morey just met with Howard today, in a conference which included coach Kevin McHale, current team stars James Harden and Chandler Parsons, as well as all-time Rockets great Hakeem Olajuwon. Even former global superstar and, like Dwight, top overall draft pick Yao Ming joined the conference via Skype.
For a player whose main concern seems to be having others like him and appear to be affable, Howard is ruffling the feathers of more than a few organizations and their fans, who would like the fanfare over D12 to end and for the enigmatic center to finally pick a destination. There is a large contingent, including the Rockets themselves, who thought that Howard may have already made up his mind, according to sources which include the well-known basketball publication SLAM Magazine:
There are five teams which legitimately have the means and need to make a serious push for Dwight: the Lakers, of course, the Rockets, the Warriors, the Dallas Mavericks and the Atlanta Hawks. Given that the theory with the Hawks was that if Atlanta could nab All-Star point guard Chris Paul, Howard might follow. The "ATL" now appears to be somewhat out of the running.
Although the Mavericks are a ...
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