dwighthoward News

dwighthoward News From AOL News

Some Muggles Too Pudgy for Harry Potter Ride

(June 23) -- When most people get in line at Orlando, Fla.'s new Harry Potter theme park, they're worried about the wait -- not their weight. But according to some Harry Potter lovers, pudgy muggles -- those who weigh about 265 pounds or more -- are getting tossed from line at the most-hyped ride in Universal Studios'...

Playoff Talking Points: The Future Is Cloudy

No one with a wife and kids, or the need to eat leafy greens, has time to watch all this basketball. But we do. So, as a service to the public, here are the Playoff Talking Points you need to fake it at the water cooler:• Anything Goes: I have no idea what's going to happen tonight, and neither to do you. Ordinarily,...

Bynum Interested in Being Team USA Center of the Future

OKLAHOMA CITY -- Centers are hard to find. It's the case in the NBA as well as with USA Basketball. But the Los Angeles Lakers' Andrew Bynum, who has a shot to be this decade's second-best center after Orlando's Dwight Howard, would like to help. Bynum turned down an invitation to be with USA Basketball in preparation for...

Dwight Howard Wins NBA's Defensive Player Award

ORLANDO, Fla. -- In an announcement that will come as no surprise, the NBA will start its post-season awards recognition Tuesday by naming Magic center Dwight Howard the Defensive Player of the Year for the second consecutive season. Howard, 24, led the NBA in blocked shots (2.78), rebounding (13.2) and field goal...

Magic Will Roll -- Or Fall -- With Vince Carter

ORLANDO, Fla. -- At the start of practice Friday -- in a mundane, two-on-two, pick-and-roll drill he has run a thousand times in his career -- veteran Vince Carter surprised everyone by cutting loose with a dunk so emphatic, so focused, that it shook the goal, looking like something he did a decade ago in a...

dwighthoward News From the Web

06/02/12 Failed Hopes, Dwight Howard, and a Legacy of Bad... Source: 1010 Wins Two years ago the New Jersey Nets appeared to be one of the brightest franchises in all of professional sports.
06/01/12 Report: Bobcats, Pacers assistant Shaw meet Source: ESPN TrueHoop Didn't Iron Man have back problems in the comics?
06/01/12 Thorpe: Postseason MVP Rankings Source: ESPN Only insofar as it rewards failure and those who perform good work aren't allowed in the room.
05/31/12 Why Deron Williams, Not Dwight Howard, Should Be... Source: Bleacher Report If Los Angeles Lakers general manager Mitch Kupchak is serious about making a major move to improve the team for the 2013 season, there should really be one immediate name on his list.
05/31/12 NBA Lottery: On Conspiracy Theories by Bradford... Source: Basketball Prospectus I'm not one for conspiracy theories and I will refuse to buy into them to the bitter end.