What if this was Dwight Howard’s best game in the playoffs? Admittedly, in 2011 against the Hawks, the pivot of Orlando will compile 46 points and 19 rebounds, but this Atlanta team was not that of Cleveland, LeBron James version, and it was not a meeting as decisive than this Game 6 of the 2009 conference final.
On May 30, 2009 therefore, Dwight Howard and the Magic are only one victory away from the Finals. Opposite, LeBron James and the Cavaliers, MVP and best team of the regular season. Since the start of the series, the winger has been monstrous with 41.2 points, 8.6 rebounds and 8.2 assists on average and above all a 3-point basket at the buzzer in Game 2.
Except that in Florida, “King James” will make its worst copy of the series with 25 points and the Cleveland bench will miss this meeting.
Result: the offensive game full of space and 3-point shots from Stan Van Gundy allows Dwight Howard to stick 40 points at 14/21 to shoot and 14 rebounds. Sharp and very powerful, the current pivot of the Lakers is at the peak of his career in those years. Mobile, he constantly attacks Zydrunas Ilgauskas and seems extremely easy on certain positions. He thus accumulates the big dunks.
With authority, like his best player, Orlando logically won 103-90. The franchise thus finds the Finals, fourteen years after the first participation in 1995 against the Rockets.
For the NBA, on the other hand, it’s a tantalizing duel between LeBron James and Kobe Bryant for the title that flies away…
