Dwight Howard (Dwight Howard) was born on December 8, 1985 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA (Atlanta, Georgia), an American professional basketball player, a center, nicknamed "Warcraft", once known as the NBA The first center currently active, plays for the NBA Philadelphia 76ers.
Childhood
On December 8, 1985, Dwight Howard was born in Atlanta. His mother, Shelly Howard, had miscarried seven children before. Dwight's father called the child who was lucky enough to survive as the "son of miracle."
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Dwight Howard's father is , Georgia , a mounted policeman, at the same time as the director of physical education at Southwestern Christian College in Atlanta, and his mother Shelly is a basketball team at Morris Brown University member.
At the age of 9, Howard officially came into contact with basketball. He spent his entire childhood in a small town in Swainsboro, and then moved his family to Atlanta. Even if they live in a big city, the Howards still maintain the values of the people of the small town. Howard has height and speed, and is very strong. He moves quickly and has a good shooting touch. He can even dribble the ball like point guard . In the seventh grade, Howard handwritten a list of his seven goals for life, one of which was to become the "No. 1 overall pick" of NBA in the future.
Howard’s childhood basketball idol was Michael Jordan, the “flying man”, so he often collected Jordan’s sneakers and jerseys, and imitated his . Irvin Johnson, because he admired the latter's perfect combination of height and ball-handling skills; after a while, Howard began to chase Kevin Garnett. He felt that KG was a big man with comprehensive skills and full athleticism. .
High school period
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In 1998, Howard was admitted to Southwestern Christian College in Atlanta, when his position on the court was still a point guard. Two years later, he entered the school team and was moved to the third position. After an offseason, Howard suddenly jumped to 6-9 and became the power forward of the team.In Atlanta, high school basketball games are very important. But because the school he attended was relatively small and his opponents were weaker, Howard did not get much attention. Until the end of the second year of high school, the stadium of Southwestern Christian College in Atlanta was suddenly crowded with scouts from college and professional basketball teams, because they heard that there was a 6-foot-10 forward who was not only a big man inside footsteps. , And the point guard's dribbling skills. That year, Howard averaged 20 points and 15 rebounds per game, and helped Southwest Christian College win the A-level event.
In his senior year of high school, Howard led the school to win the 2004 state championship. His averaging increased to 25 points, 18 rebounds, 8 blocks and 3.5 assists per game. Throughout his high school career, Howard played a total of 129 times, scoring 2146 points, 1728 rebounds and 811 blocks . He was awarded a number of personal honors, including "Naismith High School Player of the Year" and "McDonald's Player of the Year" and other titles. At the same time, Howard also became the basketball player of Georgia. In addition, he is also the co-chairman of the high school student union and the main member of the school chorus.
Until this time, Howard has learned from many industry insiders that he has the strength to become a first-round rookie in the 2004 NBA Draft. After thinking about it again and again, he decided to skip college and go directly to the NBA. [1]
References
1. The prequel of Warcraft: The boy who is born fortunately and who loves to laugh while playing [Reference date 2017-06-16] _p5 br5p p0 This article was edited by Toutiao Encyclopedia user user 2929844634570, user 1288529705851, Firework Flower, Xianweilai, and Doudouai Cactus.
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