Dwight Howard Promised Trade To Nets
January 18 at 8:24pm CST By Jonathan Nehring
In a discussion with Jessica Camerato of Basketball Insiders Dwight Howard revealed the Lakers promised he would be traded to the Nets before last season’s trade deadline. Howard was traded to the Lakers in August of 2012 and was rumored to be traded again mid-way through the season. Instead, the Lakers kept Howard for the season and he became an unrestricted free agent this summer.
Howard was “upset for a while” that he was not sent to Brooklyn but didn’t sign with them when he became a free agent. If Howard had been traded to the Nets, Brooklyn would have held his Bird Rights and been able to offer him a larger and longer contract than any other team this summer. Howard instead chose to sign with the Rockets where he has averaged 17.9 ppg and 12.5 rpg so far this season. The Nets instead acquired Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce and others in the blockbuster trade of the summer.
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http://www.hoopsrumors.com/2014/01/dwight-howard-promised.html