Caller on Sportsradio 610: Juwon Howard's career over

That's a horrible rumours to start.

 

I don't want to believe it.

 

It was tinman. But I didn't think he hated J Howard so much as to spread false rumors about his health.

 

Hope its not true.

Heres hoping Juwan is healthy, whether he plays basketball again or not.

 

That's horrible. Why would someone make that up?

 

this better be a joke

 

Last Saturday, the Chicago Sun Times published an interview with JH at his basketball camp. To summarize: He said he had a mild heart attack, but because it was caught very early, he is cleared the play.

http://www.suntimes.com/output/bulls/cst-spt-juwan01.html

 

Just crazy!!!!!!!!

 

Wouldn't surprise me, as he has a pretty serious heart condition. If Juwan is really at risk, I would recommend that he retire. Some things are more important than work, and if Howard suffers a heart attack, his life may be over.

 

Did you guys miss the Chinese article from late last season (before it came out that he had a heart infection) that he had an incident at his home and had to be taken to the hospital?

It was strange because some things were lost in translation and so we (the people on the other board) all thought it was fake and wrote it off as an April Fool's joke (not funny) but then a week later the heart infection business came out.

So, I'm fairly sure that the heart attack part of this "rumor" is true. The career ending part is what I question. I thought he recently said he was fully recovered and even started light workouts already.

 

I had seen another recent article in the Houston media giving out some of the same info.

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/sports/3176652

Juwan's website also has some corroborating info.

http://www.juwanhoward.com/news/articles/statement.shtml

http://www.juwanhoward.com/news/articles/summerjournal.shtml

If Juwan isn't coming back he sure is making an effort to hide it.

 

Words really wouldn't justify how much I hope this isn't true, for his sake.

But to be honest, it wouldn't surprise me if it was career threatening. Heart conditions are much different than other sports related injuries & ailments and its obviously nothing to mess with.

 

That's crazy..
:/

 

delete: no medical exception for players who retire even for health reasons. But, it is up to the teams discretion whether to pay the player, and if they do, the full salary counts against the cap.

so, we may be seeing a Bagwell situation here where Juwan is trying to get paid before he retires.

 

I just hope JHo will be alright. He was one of my favorite players on the team this past season.

 

Sure hope he is alright.

But if not, his salary better be insured.

 

I hope that his heart problems aren't that serious, for his sake, nevermind the Rockets. They'll manage one way or another. I just can't imagine having serious heart problems at such a young age. I hope he lives a long healthy life, whether or not he ever wears a Rockets jersey again.

 

i hope he is ok, but if he isn't then i hope he retires.

if he can't play anymore but doesn't retire it would screw us over cap wise. with 3 years left on his deal i don't tihnk he will retire. maybe this is the reason he isn't letting anyone know about it.

 

[callous business mode] You know with the new CBA, if Juwan retires for medical reasons, he would come off the books one year after his last game instead of two. That means that either we would have yet another expiring contract that we could parley into a high priced player that needs a change of scenary. Or we could let all the contracts expire and have a bunch of cap space to work with.

If Juwan's contract comes off the cap before next season, and we sign Yao to a max extension, AND we use the full MLE this year, we could still have upwards of 11 million in cap space. That's enough for a near-max player, or a pretty big salary player + decent role player money.

Hmm.... [/callous business mode]

I really hope Juwan's okay. Health above everything else.