NBA Corridor of Fame inductee Dwight Howard has signed with Progressive Artists Leisure.
The previous NBA champion, Olympic gold medalist and eight-time NBA all-star appeared in movies just like the basketball rom-com Simply Wright and The Equalizer 2, whereas additionally having TV credit like Black-ish, By no means Have I Ever and The Odd Couple.
Howard additionally competed on the thirty second season of Dancing With The Stars, within the sixth season of The Masked Singer as a purple octopus and he completed third on the Particular Forces: World’s Hardest Take a look at actuality competitors sequence.
The previous Los Angeles Laker additionally hosts the podcast Above The Rim with D12, the place he usually goes past sports activities to do sit-down conversations about tradition and life-style points. Howard, who performed within the NBA for 18 seasons, can be growing a documentary with Hearst to recall his basketball profession.
He continues to be represented by The Gymnasium Company and supervisor and enterprise accomplice Mujaahid Abdul-Baasit. The duo are work on a variety of ventures, together with their Out of the Field manufacturing and media banner.
Howard’s signing follows Progressive Artists moving into the sports activities illustration enterprise by hiring veteran sports activities and leisure lawyer Brad Small. He introduced shoppers together with Jack Perry, Large Invoice, and Anna Jay, and signed elite athletes like Olympic legend Greg Louganis and MMA star Ryan Bader.
In March, personal fairness agency Coral Tree Companions acquired a minority stake within the company, which extra not too long ago additionally signed Mark Kerr, the previous MMA championed performed by Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson in Benny Safdie’s The Smashing Machine.