Dwight Howard agreed to terms with the Atlanta Hawks on a three-year, $70.5 million deal on Friday, per Shams Charania of The Vertical.
Based on the article, Howard’s hometown team must have knocked his socks off:
Howard and his agent, Perry Rogers, finalized the agreement on Friday afternoon in Atlanta. Howard had scheduled meetings on Saturday, but canceled them after coming to terms with Atlanta.
The deal averages $23.5 million in salary, the highest amount for a center so far in free agency.
Chris Broussard of ESPN reported after the meeting that a “league source” shared his observations. "It was a really, really, really good meeting," the source said. "Very impressive. Dwight's going to look at all his options. But it went very, very well."
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Broussard mentioned in his report that Atlanta was Howard’s only meeting.
One of the meetings was going to be with the Boston Celtics, who desperately tried to land a star by trading some of their many assets and failed. This adds to what looks like a disappointing offsea ...
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