Justin Aronel Howard (born August 22, 1981) is an American professional

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player for the Chong Son Kung Fu of the

ASEAN Basketball League The ASEAN Basketball League (ABL) is a professional men's basketball league in Southeast Asia and Hong Kong/Macau, which includes six teams from Southeast Asian nations (Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam), one tea ...

. Howard is a 6'11"

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and is from

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College career

Howard played for

Mercer University Mercer University is a private research university with its main campus in Macon, Georgia. Founded in 1833 as Mercer Institute and gaining university status in 1837, it is the oldest private university in the state and enrolls more than 9,000 ...

Macon, Georgia Macon ( ), officially Macon–Bibb County, is a consolidated city-county in the U.S. state of Georgia. Situated near the fall line of the Ocmulgee River, it is located southeast of Atlanta and lies near the geographic center of the state of Geo ...

, from 1999 to 2003. He was one of the team captains in his final season, in which the

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were crowned

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champions, as well as all-academic for three out of four years. Now he is 6'11" and 255 lbs but when he entered Mercer in 1999 he was 6'9" and 335lbs..

Professional career

After completing his college career in 2003, he played his first year as a professional in

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for the Zorros de Morelia from the

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, averaging 21.7 points and 10.8

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per game while shooting 58% from the field. He finished the season as the league leader in rebounding. In 2004, he played in the

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, averaging 22.1 points, 10.7 rebounds, 2.3 steals per game, and 56% field goal percentage. His team was the first team from

to win the group stage and qualify for the knockout round of the

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. He also played briefly in

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and

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in 2004. In 2005, he returned to play in

scoring 24.7 points, 11.8 rebounds, 64% field goal, and 2 assist per game, finishing the season second in league rebounding and third in scoring. All while leading

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to the conference finals in the process. He spent all of 2006 in 2 different leagues in

, he played for

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(CIBACOPA) scoring 34 points per game, and also the

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in the

. In 2007, he played in

for defending champion

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in the top Argentinian league as well as in the

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. He also played briefly in

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in 2007. In 2008, he played for Fuerza Guinda de Nogales in the CIBACOPA and finished second in league in rebounding and second in blocks. He averaged 22.7 points, 10.9 rebounds, 67% field goal percentage and 1.8 blocks per game. In the season of 2008–2009 he started his

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an career in the Pro A German 2nd

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with the team

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. In that season he finished fourth in the league in rebounding and had averages of 14 points, 9 rebounds, 56% field goal percentage, and 1 block per game. In the 2009–2010 season he moved to the LEB in

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to play for

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. He received all league Honorable Mention honors and finished second in the league in rebounding. His averages were 14.8 points and 8.7 rebounds per game, all while shooting 59% from the field. The following season (2010–2011) he would stay in

but move to play for

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, making it all the way to the league finals. All while averaging 10.5 points, 7.5 rebounds, 54% field goal percentage and 1 block per game, leading the team in rebounds and player efficiency, and being the number two scorer. In the season of 2011–2012, after a successful first run with

, he returned for another period with the club in

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. In that season he gave amazing performance averaging 16.3points, 10.3 rebounds, 60% field goal percentage, 70% free throw percentage, 1.1 block per game. He finished in the top 8 of scoring, and led the league in rebounding and player efficiency. When this season would be over he would be recognized by

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as the center of the year, all Pro A first team, all imports team, as well as all defensive team for the league. In the year 2013 he moved to

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playing for

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from

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which was playing for the

Asean Basketball League The ASEAN Basketball League (ABL) is a professional men's basketball league in Southeast Asia and Hong Kong/Macau, which includes six teams from Southeast Asian nations (Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam), one tea ...

in that season he would get yet amazing numbers averaging 20.43 points, 13.14 rebounds, 2 blocks, 1.7 steals per game. He finished the season leading the league in points, third in rebounding. In 2013, he moved to

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to play for

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scoring 26.8 points 15.7 rebounds 3 blocks per game, leading his team to the semifinals in the process. In 2014 Howard played in the

for the defending champion Chonburri Hitech Sharks. Since 2015, he has been playing in the

again, this time for the

Singapore Slingers The Singapore Slingers is a Singaporean professional basketball team that currently compete in the ASEAN Basketball League. The Slingers were known as the JobStreet.com Singapore Slingers between 2009 and 2014, due to sponsorship ties with JobS ...

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