What if Howard chose the Warriors instead of the Rockets?
Two summers ago, the Golden State Warriors were one of a small handful of teams pitching Dwight Howard on where he should sign his next contract. Howard obviously chose the Houston Rockets, and the rest is history.
But what if Howard picked Golden State instead? It's always fun to play the "What If?" game. Here's the San Francisco Chronicle's Scott Ostler doing just that:
"What if Howard had chosen the Warriors? What would they be like on the court? It’s likely that this team’s groovy chemistry would be different. Maybe Howard would have been comfy sharing the superstar limelight with Stephen Curry, maybe he would have become one of the boys. Maybe not. Bob Myers, who was the Warriors’ general manager during the second courting of Howard, could not comment, due to league rules, on how serious the team was about getting the big fellow."
The Warriors finished the regular season as the league's best team. They won 67 games with the best defense and a top-notch offense. Who knows if they would be in the Western Conference Finals if they had Howard instead of Andrew Bogut and Klay Thompson/Harrison Barnes?
But there's no doubt that the team is perfectly fine with how everything turned out.
(h/t: San Francisco Chronicle)
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