Veteran All-Star center Dwight Howard signed a one-season deal with the Philadelphia Sixers on Fridayas reported by Charles Briscoe, his agent. While several sources indicated that the agreement It is for the minimum exception of veterans of 2.6 million dollars (2.1 million euros).
Howard, de 34 years old, has averages as a professional of 16.7 points; 12.3 rebounds and 1.9 blocks per game.
The veteran pivot accepted the offer made by the new Sixers president of operations, Daryl Morey, the same manager who took him as a star to the Houston Rockets, where his confrontation with guard James Harden forced his early departure from the Texan team.
A season
Howard, what He will have a one-season contract and a minimum of 2.56 million dollars (2.15 million euros), the same amount that he received with the Lakers when he signed in August 2019 to return to the franchise in which he had already arrived as a star in 2013, but could not succeed when facing guard Kobe Bryant.
Last season, the veteran center, eight-time All-Star and three-time Defensive Player of the Year, met for the first time in his career as a reserve and played 69 games, including two in which he started, when Anthony Davis, the great signing of the Lakers, was injured.
Howard despite playing alone 19 minutes per game, he averaged 7.5 points; 7.3 rebounds and 1.1 blocks. Despite playing fewer minutes in the postseason, he started seven games and won his first NBA championship in his sixteenth season as a professional.
Now it is expected that with Sixers is the player who gives rest to the starting center, the Cameroonian Joel Embiid, after Al Horford was traded to the Oklahoma City Thunder
