Lakers center Dwight Howard told CNN on Monday night that he will be joining his team in Orlando for the resumption of the NBA season.
Dwight Howard’s bounce-back season will continue in the place where he started his NBA career.
The Los Angeles Lakers center appeared as a guest on « CNN Tonight with Don Lemon » on Monday and told the host, « Yes, I will be joining my team in Orlando, » after there was some uncertainty surrounding his status for the league’s restart at the end of the month.
Howard said he will donate the remainder of his salary for the 2019-20 season — approximately $700,000, according to ESPN’s NBA front-office expert Bobby Marks — to his charitable initiative Breathe Again.
« I have a contractual obligation to my teammates, to my fans, the Lakers, the organization and everyone, but at the same time, I also have an obligation to my family and to my community, » Howard said. « We will be getting a lot of work done here in Atlanta and around the nation as far as making sure people don’t forget about us and what’s going on in our communities. »
Howard, who started Breathe Again through his D12 Foundation in 2015, said he is restarting the campaign.
In a letter posted to the Breathe Again website — which is currently out of service — upon its launch, Howard wrote, « My sadness has grown deeper as I watch people firmly plant themselves on one side or the other, usually based on race.
