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Dwight Howard suspended for first game of 2015-16 season

For those lucky enough to throw some cash down on the 12000:1 odds of Clint Capela being the starting center for the Houston Rockets season opener next season, congratulations. The NBA has upgraded the common foul from Game 5 in the fourth quarter on Dwight Howard to a Flagrant 1. This was Howard's fourth flagrant foul of the post season thus earning him the automatic one game suspension.

The foul came with about 3:55 left in the game. Everyone assumed that it was a pretty cut and dry flagrant 1, but it was a common foul. Andre Iguodala looked like he either had a separated shoulder or a broken collar bone from the pick that Howard had set on him.