Dwight Howard may have settled in as Houston Rockets center, but the All-Star center recently bared that he was promised by the Orlando Magic that he would be traded to the Brooklyn Nets in the summer of 2012.
"I thought the Brooklyn thing was going to come through at the end of the season," Howard bared to Basketball Insiders. "It was something that was promised, but it didn't happen. Once it didn't happen I figured everything happens for a reason. I just let it go. I was upset for a while, but I just let it go."
According to ESPN.com, the Nets back then offered the Magic four future first-round draft picks, Kris Humphries and Brook Lopez in exchange for Howard, Jason Richardson, Chris Duhon and Earl Clark. But the Magic refused to part ways with Howard, and the Nets eventually re-signed Lopez to a four year, $60 million deal. Howard was eventually dealt to the Los Angeles Lakers, where he spent one disastrous year before inking a new contract with the Rockets in the summer of 2013.
Now that he has found a home in Houston, Howard's name is no longer in the trade rumor mill. He told Basketball Insiders: "For me I think it (the trade deadline) was different from a lot of players. A lot of attention was on me and what teams were going to do that day. It's tough. You have everybody asking what's going to happen, what you're going to do, all that stuff. I had a big headache and I was just happy when it was over with."
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