After being traded to the Brooklyn Nets by the Charlotte Hornets on July 6, Dwight Howard was waived by the team so that he could go and sign a new deal elsewhere.

Earlier this week, Howard confirmed his new home for the next two years when he signed a two-year, $10.9 million deal with the Washington Wizards.

While the 32-year-old has had a very successful NBA career, but most of that success has come as an individual, rather than part of a team.

Over his 14-year career, Howard has played for five different teams, but in the past four years alone, he has played for four different teams.

Not a locker room issue

Many believe that the center keeps on switching teams because he has a locker room issue, but the man himself has hit back at the claims.

The eight-time NBA All-Star has said that anyone that knows him on and off the court knows that he's never been a mean person and that he wouldn't try to destroy a team.

Howard told Scott Allen of the Washington Post: “I’ll address that any day. I ain’t no bad person. I ain’t never been no bad person in the locker room.

"All this stuff is just lies to try to justify why I was traded, or why I left the team. But anybody who knows me, who’s been around me, on and off the court, I ain’t never been no a–hole, I ain’t never been no mean person.

"I would never try to destroy a team, but that’s a narrative that they always tried to say to me because they couldn’t say nothing else.

"At one point they were saying I was a great teammate, that I smiled too much on the court. But I smiled my happy a– all the way to the Finals.”

In recent years, no team has wanted Howard for longer than a season despite his numbers being solid. There has to be an explanation behind this quick turnaround.

The center now though has another fresh opportunity to set the record straight and bring an end to the speculation that has followed him around for the last couple of seasons once and for all.

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