LAS VEGAS — Juwan Howard Jr. hasn’t taken the same Fab Five route through Michigan to the NBA that his father traveled.
The elder Howard never played in the leagues of Luxembourg or Mexico or Finland, nor did he get cut by an NBA summer-league team before the opener.
The son, a 6-foot-6 small forward out of the University of Detroit-Mercy, has done all that. His NBA journey at age 26 has landed him with the Knicks’ summer-league team, where new coach David Fizdale kept his dream alive.
Howard Jr. played during two summer leagues with the Heat, for which his father is an assistant coach and with which he won two titles as a power forward.