He’ll take in the usual flak, but Dwight Howard should be applauded for being honest. He worked through the last four games of the 2015 Western Conference finals with a pair of injuries that he should have sat with, staying competitive even as his upstart Houston Rockets fell in five games to the eventual champion Golden State Warriors.
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Via Garrett Heinrich at CBS Houston, Howard told SportsRadio 610 that a pair of knee injuries limited his effectiveness in the Conference finals:
“I basically was playing with a torn MCL and meniscus,” Howard said.