"You driving with us?"
Dwight Howard surprises me with that question as I'm in the parking lot of Blue Ridge Elementary in Houston, along with some of his personal staff. It's around 7:30 p.m. on a pleasant 80-degree day in late March. And he has just spoken to about 50 students as part of his new Breathe Again campaign.
The plan is to meet Howard at a restaurant for a sit-down interview. Walking with him and his longtime friend, Josh Powell, a former NBA player who's now a player development coach for the Rockets, I'm led toa black Mercedes-Benz S65 AMG tucked away from the other cars.