With the Los Angeles Lakers bringing back Dwight Howard for the 2019-20 NBA season, many have begun looking back at his first stint with them.
Very famously, Howard and Steve Nash joined Kobe Bryant and Pau Gasol on the Lakers and with head coach Mike D’Antoni replacing former head coach Mike Brown, many believed it was a foregone conclusion that another championship was coming.
Of course, things didn’t work out at all the way they hoped. Nash was injured in the team’s second game of the season, Howard dealt with back and shoulder issues all season, and the entire group just didn’t gel well.