Photo: Keith Allison from Owings Mills, USA / CC BY-SA 2.0 (source: Wikimedia Commons)
My Take
What I respect most about Josh Howard is the second act. Plenty of players ride a decade in the NBA, mostly anchoring those gritty Dallas Mavericks years, and then vanish. He didn't. The same guy who used his 201 cm frame to score in the league came back to his roots and took a head coaching job, building young players from the ground up at Wake Forest. That move, from spotlight to sideline, says a lot. I read it as quiet humility rather than hunger for fame, and I find that kind of full-circle commitment to the game genuinely admirable and worth following closely.
Overview
Joshua Jay Howard (born April 28, 1980) is an American basketball coach and former professional player who is the head coach of the UNT Dallas Trailblazers men's basketball team. He played college basketball for the Wake Forest Demon Deacons. He played 10 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA), predominantly with the Dallas Mavericks.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Josh Howard
- Name (Japanese)
- ジョシュ・ハワード
- Reading
- じょしゅ・はわーど
- Born
- April 28, 1980 (age 46)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Taurus / Monkey
- Origin
- Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- 201 cm
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- basketball player / basketball coach
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Robert B. Glenn High School
- University
- Wake Forest University
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.