Dwight Howard apparently needed some help catching the basketball Saturday.
The Houston Rockets center applied stickum spray to his hands in the first quarter of a 109-97 loss to the Atlanta Hawks, per Chris Vivlamore of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Howard checked back into the game while Hawks forward Paul Millsap was at the free-throw line. After Millsap made a free throw, Howard grabbed the ball. Once Millsap was given the ball back for his second attempt, he noticed a substance on it, per Vivlamore.
The referees assessed no penalty to the Rockets for the incident.
"I don’t know why people are making a big deal out of it," Howard said after the game, per Jonathan Feigen of the Houston Chronicle. "I do it every game. It’s not a big deal. I ain’t tripping.”
Vivlamore also pointed out that not only was Howard at fault, but Rockets interim head coach J.B. Bickerstaff also seemed to know what was going on:
Official Monty McCutchen grabbed the ball and went to each bench to issue a warning, saying "Stickum is illegal in the NBA." After first going to the H ...
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