Josh Howard
Howard with the Wizards
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| Piedmont International | |
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| Position | Head coach |
| League | NCCAA Division II - South |
| Personal information | |
| Born |
April 28, 1980 Winston-Salem, North Carolina |
| Nationality | American |
| Listed height | 6 ft 7 in (2.01 m) |
| Listed weight | 210 lb (95 kg) |
| Career information | |
| High school |
Glenn (Kernersville, North Carolina) Hargrave Military Academy (Chatham, Virginia) |
| College | Wake Forest (1999–2003) |
| NBA draft | 2003 / Round: 1 / Pick: 29th overall |
| Selected by the Dallas Mavericks | |
| Playing career | 2003–2016 |
| Position | Small forward / Shooting guard |
| Number | 5 |
| Career history | |
| As player: | |
| 2003–2010 | Dallas Mavericks |
| 2010–2011 | Washington Wizards |
| 2011–2012 | Utah Jazz |
| 2012 | Minnesota Timberwolves |
| 2013–2014 | Austin Toros |
| As coach: | |
| 2016–present | Piedmont International |
| Career highlights and awards | |
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Joshua Jay Howard (born April 28, 1980) is an American former professional basketball player who is currently the head coach of Piedmont International University. He played college basketball for Wake Forest.
Howard attended Glenn High School in Kernersville, North Carolina, where he was a First-Team All-State selection in his senior year and averaged six blocks per game while shooting 70%. He also averaged a double-double during his junior and senior years, during which time he also received the Frank Spencer Award (for the top player in Northwest North Carolina) twice. During his senior year Howard was handcuffed outside of a BP gas station the night before his SAT examination. Howard had been loitering on the premises with some of his friends, and undercover cops, believing the teenagers had been selling drugs, detained them.
In order to get into Wake Forest University Howard needed an SAT score of at least 950. He did not get a 950, saying his score was "somewhere in the 500s". In lieu, he spent a year at Hargrave Military Academy in Chatham, Virginia, where he averaged a double-double, with 19.9 points and 10.1 rebounds per game. Howard led Hargrave to a 27–3 record, shooting well on the floor with 56%. He also averaged 44% from behind the three-point line and 85% from the free throw line. Howard participated in the ACC–SEC game between new signings from the two conferences. Howard scored 14 points in 15 minutes to help lift the ACC team to a 145–115 win over the SEC.
Howard chose to sign with Wake Forest in 1999 over many other colleges due to the proximity of the campus to his family and friends. He majored in sociology and minored in international studies. During his first year, Howard played in all thirty-six games, starting in all but two. He led the team with 44 steals and ranked fourth on the team with 9.1 points per game. His season high came in a game against Duke during an ACC tournament. Howard scored 19 points, going 7-for-10 from the field and 2-for-2 from behind the three-point line.
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