Dwight Howard has had a wildly successful career, but most of his success has been of the individual variety rather than about the team. Howard has played on five teams during his 14-year career. But he's also playing for his fourth team — Washington Wizards — in as many years in 2018-19.

The 6-foot-11 center has long had the reputation of being a locker room issue, but Howard is hoping to dispell these rumors. Howard told Scott Allen of the Washington Post:

“I’ll address that any day. I ain’t no bad person. I ain’t never been no bad person in the locker room. All this stuff is just lies to try to justify why I was traded, or why I left the team. But anybody who knows me, who’s been around me, on and off the court, I ain’t never been no a–hole, I ain’t never been no mean person. I would never try to destroy a team, but that’s a narrative that they always tried to say to me because they couldn’t say nothing else. At one point they were saying I was a great teammate, that I smiled too much on the court. But I smiled my happy a– all the way to the Finals.”

It must be really tough for players to try and shake free of the “locker room cancer” label. Following his departure from Orlando, it's a label that has followed Howard around for the rest of his career.

But the fact of the matter is that in recent years, no team has wanted Howard for longer than one season despite his numbers still being solid. There really has to be an explanation as to why.

But that being said, Howard is coming into a situation in Washington where he can end all the speculation. He's coming into a very dysfunctional locker room already, but he has a fresh start in D.C.