Dwight Howard Requested A Non-Guaranteed Contract

In fact, according to ESPN’s Ramona Shelburne, who appeared on The Jump, stated that Howard’s camp asked the Lakers for his contract to be non-guaranteed to show the level of his commitment.

“I think with Dwight, it also goes back to why the Lakers signed that contract with him that way in the first place. Dwight asked for that.

That was his idea. That wasn’t the Lakers saying ‘oh this is the only way we’ll do it.’

This was Dwight and his agent saying ‘yes, we’ll do non-guaranteed just to show you how committed we are to being this kind of player.’”