There comes a time when smiles and jokes no longer conceal the absence of a championship. When overpowering mass goes up against reality and loses. When makeshift excuses are nonexistent.
For Dwight Howard, that time has officially come.
Through nine years, there has been no championship. Superman has reached the NBA Finals once and made it out of the second round twice, but a championship has proved elusive.
Players like Carmelo Anthony are railroaded for their postseason failures. Howard has yet to join those ranks in part because he carried an unimpressive Orlando Magic squad to the NBA Finals in 2009.
For so long, he has been able to seek refuge in that season. His teammates were never good enough, the Magic rarely spent enough, and when they did, it was on the wrong players. Nothing Howard did would win a title in Orlando.
At his own behest, and after more than a year of protracted posturing, Howard was dealt from the small-market Magic to the storied Los Angeles Lakers. The thing is, Kobe Bryant's Lakers weren't his first choice; the Brooklyn Nets were.
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