Dwight Howard considered retiring after the season 2014-2015

Dwight Howard almost retired following the season 2014-2015 when he was playing with the Rockets.

Howard was traded during the summer and will play with Charlotte this upcoming season.

Per SI, At a low point with the Rockets, after the 2014–15 season, he considered retiring. The jolly giant who supposedly had too much fun on the floor was miserable. “The joy,” Howard says, “was sucked out of it.” But what would retirement accomplish? He had to change his life regardless of his occupation. So he did what his teenage self would have done. He saw a pastor.

The pastor he turned to was Calvin Simmons, who has advised plenty of professional athletes.

“Dwight had gone from the darling of the NBA to the black sheep,” Simmons told Jenkins. “He realized he had done some things wrong and needed to change, but at the beginning he just wanted to share.”