Dwight Howard gets dragged on Twitter after Rockets lose lead and game

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After Dwight Howard and the Houston Rockets emerged from the carnage of a colossal collapse, where they gave up a 10-point lead to the Portland Trailblazers with less than five minutes left and lost in overtime, 122-120; social media let the Rockets’ big free agent have it for his poor down-the-stretch play.

Compounding the cataclysmic setback is the fact that Howard’s counterpart, emerging superstar LaMArcus Aldridge, scored a Portland playoff record 46 points and added 18 rebounds, dwarfing Howard’s 27 points and 17 rebounds.


Of course, superstar James Harden deserves just as much blame for the loss in missing 20 of 28 shots; most of them wayward, low-percentage tries, but the vast majority of the culpability will fall in Howard’s lap if the Rockets don’t come back from a 0-1 hole to win the best of 7 series against the Blazers.


Take a look at social media’s assessment of Howard’s and the Rocket’s collapse in Game 1 of the 2014 Western Conference playoffs against the Trailblazers.

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