Chances of winning Personally, this writer would advise you to never bet on a team featuring Dwight Howard going on a deep playoff run, but it’s certainly possible. But he will be remembered best at the end of every regular season, when a new batch of coaches and general managers are fired and teams scramble to find their successors. He mingled with fans, much as his father did before him, and made his players feel supremely comfortable in his presence. Over the decades he became one of the most powerful and innovative forces within the game, developin.