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Originally Posted by darklord700
The ludicrous part is Howard is going to meet with the Hawks. To me it shows Howard's doing this just for the attention and perhaps free food.
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Because the Hawks are the only team who could potentially be contenders if he signed with them. Jeff Teague, Al Horford, Dwight Howard and the Hawks have the cap room to possibly sign both Tyreke Evans and Josh Smith/Iguodala in addition to Howard. That would be one of the best starting 5 in the league. Plus their new coach probably would utilize him better than any of the other 5 teams.
Houston - up tempo offense probably be a contender with him
Lakers - up tempo already saw how this played out
Mavs - system works but not a contender even with him
Warriors - not sure why they want him as they would need to do a sign and trade and the lakers would want Klay Thompson and Harrison Barnes thereby making them not contenders
The Hawks are realistically his 2nd best option (not only me saying that many publications realize this as well). That being said I would rather the Hawks resign Teague and sign no one else but scrubs and crash and burn this season and get a top 5 pick in possibly the best lottery in the NBA ever. Get Wiggins/Parker/Randle/Harrison and then sign a couple big names next year with the giant amount of cap space.