NBA: Top five MVP 2013-14 candidates

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4. Dwight Howard, Houston Rockets

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Howard had a bad season last year. Or so everyone thinks. Howard’s level of play dropped, but he still remained one of the league’s best centers last year.

D12 led the league in rebounding for the fifth time in his career last season. He stood second in field goal percentage, came fifth in blocks and scored an amazing 18 PPG to top it all of. He was as perfect a center as anybody can possibly imagine.

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And this was one of Howard’s “poor” seasons.

This year, he’s “The Man” at Houston. He has a team around him that resembles the one he had in Orlando (where he arguably spent his best seasons). There’s no Kobe Bryant to badger him and this also means Howard would see more of the ball. It’s expected that he would get along better with Houston’s star guard, James Harden.

If Howard can improve on his last year’s performance, and I am sure he will, he’ll be one of the legitimate contenders for the MVP title this year.

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