Dwight Howard dreams of NBA return

Basketball veteran Dwight Howard dreams of return to the NBA and thinks he can show he can be an imposing figure on the floor.

“I do want to make it back to the NBA. I can still play,” Howard said in an interview with Complex. “Definitely want to show teams that I can still dominate even at being this age and still play at a high level and come back out on top.”

At 37 years of age, Howard remains confident that he can not only bring a quality presence off the bench to most NBA teams.

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“Well, I personally in my opinion believe that you have an upper echelon of centers that’s playing now and obviously, I’m not at my peak so people would consider me at this playing stage as being upper echelon,” Howard said. “But I know that there’s at least 15 to 20 teams that I could play for. And I know there’s teams that got great starting centers, but I know I could be a great backup center.”

“I know I can provide a team with 25 minutes of dominant basketball. And that’s not even scoring, that’s just playing defense, locking people up, protecting the paint, rebounding, and finishing around the basket. I’ve had my fun in the game. I just want to go out like a champ like I’m supposed to.”

In 2022 and after failing to find a contract in the NBA offseason, Howard joined the Taoyuan Leopards in Taiwan.