Dwight Howard has already gotten the benefit of the doubt from the league office once during these Western Conference finals. If the Houston Rockets are able to once again stave off elimination on Wednesday, he'll need the NBA's disciplinarians to smile upon him one more time to allow him to suit up for Friday's Game 6 back in Houston.
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Howard was allowed to suit up for Game 5 against the Golden State Warriors after the NBA elected not to elevate the flagrant foul-1 he received for hitting Warriors center Andrew Bogut in the face during Houston's Game 4 win to a flagrant-2, which would have earned him a one-game suspension that would have kept him out of the Rockets lineup on Wednesday.