Last summer, Dwight Howard signed a non-guaranteed contract with the Lakers to prove to the team (and himself) that he could be a contributor without having to be the star that he was when he first played in Los Angeles in 2012. While there were plenty of reasons to be skeptical at first, Howard quickly turned his doubters into believers.
What’s ironic, though, is that the Lakers actually need Howard to play a big role in order to get past Nikola Jokic and the Denver Nuggets.