On Feb. 18, 2007, Josh Howard walked onto the Thomas and Mack Center floor in Las Vegas as a first-time NBA All-Star.
Mike D’Antoni, who replaced Howard’s coach, Avery Johnson, was leading the Western Conference All-Star team. Roughly a decade later, the former Washington Wizards forward finds himself in a similar position – on the sidelines.
Howard was traded by the Mavericks to the Wizards in 2010 in a deal that netted Dallas three of Washington’s starters, Caron Butler, DeShawn Stevenson and Brendan Haywood.