CLALNBA🏛 Hall of Fame · 2025 ⛰️ Mountain Arc · 2011

Dwight Howard

6'10" · 265 lbsBorn December 8, 19852005–2022Draft: 2004 · Rd 1, Pick 1 · Orlando MagicESPN ↗

NBA Stats

Career Snapshot

Sport-specific career totals from the active profile tables, with VAL shown whenever the sport has a value file.

NBA profile

Peak 3Y VAL

17.7

2009, 2010, 2011 avg

Career VAL

153.5

Value Above League

Games

1,240

Points

19,431

Rebounds

14,591

Assists

1,670

Win Shares

149.7

Playoff VAL

105.4

postseason

All-time standings

Career boards only, within NBA · corpus from 2002

+ 2 more career boards inside the all-time top 100.

On the NBA Career Dominance board — top-25 in more than one all-time category at once.

Cross-sport prominence: 99.0th percentile among NBA careers — a within-sport percentile, because career value is not comparable across sports.

Franchise face

Etched into the franchise monument

#1 · Orlando Magic80.9 legacy · 47% attributed career shareVAL × verified franchise tenure, with bounded honors evidence

Explore every franchise monument →

On the boards· Appears on 3 boards

Boards that rank NBA careers

NBA Age Milestones — Youngest to 20 PPG, 10 RPG and 100 Career VAL NBA Breakout Seasons — Biggest Career-High Leaps NBA Career Arc Types NBA Career Dominance — top-25 in multiple all-time categories NBA Clutch Delta — Who Rises in the Playoffs NBA Compilers vs Comets — Career Shape NBA Consistency Index — Mr. Reliable vs Boom-Bust

Similar careers

Players whose careers had the same shape — total value, peak, best three-season stretch, length and when the value came — measured with VAL against their own leagues.

Where this data comes from

Box scores, rosters, and draft data (2002+) come from sportsdataverse's hoopR release. College, international, and pre-2002 per-game rows are backfilled additively from Wikipedia.

sportsdataverse (hoopR) — CC-BY 4.0 — attribution required
Wikipedia — Facts extracted under Feist v. Rural Telephone; courtesy CC-BY-SA attribution

Methodology · Trust Center

Season	Age	Team	GP	MPG	PPG	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	TOPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	VAL
2005	18–19	ORL	82	32.6	12.0	10.0	0.9	0.9	1.7	2.0	52.0%	0.0%	67.1%	0.07
2006	19–20	ORL	82	36.9	15.8	12.5	1.5	0.8	1.4	2.6	53.1%	0.0%	59.5%	0.09
2007	20–21	ORL	82	36.9	17.6	12.3	1.9	0.9	1.9	3.9	60.3%	50.0%	58.6%	0.14
2008	21–22	ORL	82	37.7	20.7	14.2	1.3	0.9	2.1	3.2	59.9%	0.0%	59.0%	0.17
2009	22–23	ORL	79	35.7	20.6	13.8	1.4	1.0	2.9	3.0	57.2%	0.0%	59.4%	0.23
2010	23–24	ORL	82	34.7	18.3	13.2	1.8	0.9	2.8	3.3	61.2%	0.0%	59.2%	0.20
2011	24–25	ORL	78	37.6	22.9	14.1	1.4	1.4	2.4	3.6	59.3%	0.0%	59.6%	0.24
2012	25–26	ORL	54	38.3	20.6	14.5	1.9	1.5	2.1	3.2	57.3%	0.0%	49.1%	0.17
2013	26–27	LAL	75	35.8	17.0	12.5	1.4	1.1	2.4	3.0	57.6%	16.7%	49.2%	0.10
2014	27–28	HOU	71	33.7	18.3	12.2	1.8	0.8	1.8	3.2	59.1%	28.6%	54.7%	0.14
2015	28–29	HOU	41	29.9	15.8	10.5	1.2	0.7	1.3	2.8	59.3%	50.0%	52.8%	0.11
2016	29–30	HOU	71	32.1	13.7	11.8	1.4	1.0	1.6	2.3	62.0%	0.0%	48.9%	0.07
2017	30–31	ATL	73	29.5	13.5	12.7	1.4	0.9	1.2	2.3	63.1%	0.0%	53.5%	0.13
2018	31–32	CHA	81	30.4	16.6	12.5	1.3	0.6	1.6	2.6	55.5%	14.3%	57.4%	0.06
2019	32–33	WSH	9	25.4	12.8	9.2	0.4	0.8	0.4	1.8	62.3%	—	60.4%	—
2020	33–34	LAL	69	18.9	7.5	7.3	0.7	0.4	1.1	1.2	72.9%	60.0%	51.4%	0.08
2021	34–35	PHI	69	16.6	6.8	8.1	0.8	0.4	0.9	1.6	59.1%	25.0%	58.0%	0.06
2022	35–36	LAL	60	16.2	6.2	5.9	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.8	61.2%	53.3%	65.8%	0.05

Dwight Howard

NBA Stats

Career Snapshot

All-time standings

Etched into the franchise monument

On the boards· Appears on 3 boards

Boards that rank NBA careers

Similar careers

Where this data comes from

Career arc · VAL by season

What he added · wins above replacement

Only Club — Statistical Exclusivity

Intelligence

Cross-Sport Career Standing

Career Geography