Paris Olympics 2024: Dwight Howard makes pitch for Team USA roster spot, threatens to play for Taiwan

The Team USA basketball roster wishes transforming after a subpar efficiency on the FIBA World Cup, and Dwight Howard is campaigning for himself to make the workforce — or else he threatened to drop 85 issues on them.

LeBron James is reportedly thinking about taking part in within the 2024 Paris Olympics, and he is recruiting stars corresponding to Stephen Curry, Kevin Durant and Anthony Davis. Howard thinks the possible roster appears just right, such a lot so he desires to be part of it.

“I like what I see but don’t leave ya boy out …if ya leave me out I’m playing with Taiwan and I’m dropping 85,” Howard wrote on Instagram. 

His marketing campaign is gaining some traction as four-time NBA champion Shaquille O’Neal shared Howard’s post on his personal Instagram tale.

Howard maximum not too long ago performed for the Taiyuan Leopards in Taiwan after spending the 2021-22 season with the Los Angeles Lakers. He turns out to be playing his time out of the country and has even been making jokes about recruiting James and Chris Paul to sign up for him.

The three-time NBA Defensive participant of the yr does have a tight resume with Team USA. He was once a part of the well-known Redeem Team that took down Spain to win a gold medal on the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Howard averaged 10.9 issues and 5.8 rebounds in that event.

Sure, he was once in his 20s all through that point and is now 37 years outdated, however it sort of feels like he nonetheless has so much to give — despite the fact that 85 issues may well be a bit of of a stretch. Howard would possibly not in finding good fortune competing for Taiwan anyway, as Taiwan — which competes underneath the title “Chinese Taipei” — did not qualify for the Olympic males’s basketball event in Paris. Taiwan has best certified 3 times in Olympic males’s basketball, and the closing was once in 1956 at Melbourne.