Dwight Howard was born in Atlanta, Georgia, USA into a family with a long history in sports to his parents Dwight Sr. and Sheryl Howard. His mother was a member of the first women’s basketball team at Morris Brown College, and his father is the director of athletics at Southwest Atlanta Christian Academy, an elite private institution with one of the top high school basketball teams in the nation.
Howard was one of the best centers and defenders in the NBA. He is the recipient of multiple Defensive Player of the Year trophies, All-Star, All-Defensive Team, and All-NBA Team honors. His father works at Southwest Atlanta Christian Academy, where he went to school. Dwight’s nationality is American and is born and brought up whole and solely in the (hometown)USA.
Dwight Howard:
First player since Charles Barkley (1998-99) with 15+ REB in each of first 5 games of a season. #BuzzCity pic.twitter.com/zbVV0U9OIi
— NBA.com/Stats (@nbastats) October 28, 2017
During his time at the academy, Dwight made 129 appearances, largely as a power forward. He finished each game with an average of 16.6 points, 13.4 rebounds, and 6.3 blocks. In 2004, Howard was named the nation’s top high school basketball player of the year while he was in his senior year.
Kevin Garnett, a former NBA player who gave up college in 1995 to pursue basketball full-time, has long been an inspiration to Howard. Dwight followed suit and submitted an NBA draft declaration in 2004. Ever since then, it has only been a success for Dwight and his family.
The Private Life of Dwight Howard
As of 2023, Dwight Howard is single. Dwight Howard and Te’a Cooper reportedly got engaged in 2019 and married in secret in 2020, according to several news sources. One of the most attractive WNBA players is Te’a Cooper. Born in New Jersey, USA, on April 16, 1997, she will be 25 years old in 2023 and a player for the NBA’s Los Angeles Sparks.
According to various sources, in 2021 Dwight Howard and Te’a Cooper called their quits. She acknowledged that their relationship was over. The names of Howard’s children are Dwight III (Trey), Braylon, Jayde, Layla, and David. The basketball player has only admitted to having five of the alleged eight children.
Royce Reed, Christine Vest, Hope Alexa, Tiffany Render, and Melissa Rios are the moms of the children he raised. On March 27, 2020, Melissa Rios passed away due to an epileptic seizure. At that moment, he was visiting his son David’s house in Georgia. Melissa’s relatives claimed that a plumbing problem in the toilet of her apartment had a part in her passing.
Dwight Howard (32 PTS, 30 REB) became the first player since Kevin Love in 2010 to tally 30+ PTS and 30+ REB and first since Moses Malone in 1982 to tally 32+ PTS and 30+ REB. pic.twitter.com/LO09BOHYDr
— NBA.com/Stats (@nbastats) March 22, 2018
Dwight’s net worth is estimated to be around $140 million. At the Los Angeles Lakers, Howard made roughly $2.5 million a year. The Taiwan Leopards, his current squad, have a deal worth more than $1 million. In his former teams, he made a rum sum of almost $23 million a year.