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Dwight Howard wants to shoot 3-pointers

Dwight Howard

Checkmate, jump-shooting league deniers.

In an interview with CBS Sports Radio on Monday, Atlanta Hawks center Dwight Howard said that he’s looking to increase his range and start shooting some three-pointers.

“Actually it’s something that we all work on every day in practice,” Howard said about the possibility of him moving out to the three-point line. “You know what, it’s going to happen. It’s the beginning of the season. Right now, have to make sure that I do a really good job of trying to get every offensive rebound that I can, get every defensive rebound and just be competitive on the defensive end. And the offensive stuff will come.

“I do want to shoot some 3s,” the former Defensive Player of the Year continued. “I think that it would just expand everything for myself and for this team. But right now this team needs me to dominate the paint.”

For what it’s worth, Howard has made five of 54 three-point attempts in his 12-year career (with 24 of those attempts qualifying as heaves, per Basketball Reference). But such an outward shift wouldn’t be unprecedented considering the recent long-range exploits of Marc Gasol (who came into 2016-17 with 12 made threes for his career and has already equaled that total through the first nine games of the season) and Brook Lopez (who has also hit 12 this season after only three (!!!) career makes prior), to name just a couple of fellow bigs.

While there’s always a chance that Howard’s response may have been a bit tongue-in-cheek, he already appears to be quite comfortable in Atlanta, so maybe this really is the next step for his player progression in a perimeter-oriented NBA.

H/T theScore

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