16. Dwight Howard
It’s amazing how quickly we’ve forgotten what a great player Dwight Howard was at his peak for the Orlando Magic before back injuries derailed his career, and his reputation for eccentricity made him something of a locker room leper. Some people, to this day, will tell you that if you that if you plugged Michael Jordan or Kobe Bryant’s ruthless competitiveness into Howard’s body, he would’ve been literally unstoppable.
Even with that, Howard was still a five-time All-NBA First-Team selection, the three-time NBA Defensive Player of the Year award recipient (the first player in NBA history to accomplish this feat), a four-time All-NBA Defensive First Team selection, and the winner of the NBA’s rebounding title five different times. In 2010, he became the first player in NBA history to lead the league in blocks and rebounds in the same season twice—doing so for two years in a row.