Dwight Howard: Impending Free-Agent Center Doesn’t Deserve Max Contract

If written three or four months ago, this headline would read as downright sensationalism, and for many people—staunch D12 apologists in particular—that's probably still the case.

But after what I've seen this season, it's also very much the truth. Dwight Howard does not deserve a max contract this summer.

Let's start with some basics.

Dwight Howard is only 27 years old. He already has three Defensive Player of the Year awards, and in 2009, he led an awkward band of misfits to the NBA Finals. At this point last season, he was a consensus top-five player in basketball—maybe better. Even more unanimous than that merit was ...

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