{"id":407118,"date":"2022-09-22T16:25:46","date_gmt":"2022-09-22T16:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/?p=407118"},"modified":"2022-09-22T16:25:46","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T16:25:46","slug":"ball-is-in-his-court-wwe-acting-cco-triple-h-reaches-tries-to-recruit-former-lakers-star-to-wwe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/ball-is-in-his-court-wwe-acting-cco-triple-h-reaches-tries-to-recruit-former-lakers-star-to-wwe\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Ball is in His Court&#8221;: WWE Acting CCO Triple H Reaches Tries to Recruit Former Lakers Star to WWE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the interim CCO of WWE, Triple H is actively recruiting. Even one NBA player is being invited to enter the ring by him. Dwight Howard, former Lakers star, has been extended an open offer to join the business.<\/p>\n<p>NBA champion Dwight Howard made a big impression at the WWE&#8217;s pre-SummerSlam auditions, and he&#8217;s continued to tease us on social media about a potential wrestling career. The self-described &#8220;Shogun King of the Shadows&#8221; is now a prospective contender to join WWE.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-407120\" src=\"https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/09\/Dwight-Howard.webp\" alt=\"Dwight Howard Joel Embiid Lakers\" width=\"1100\" height=\"733\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/09\/Dwight-Howard.webp 1100w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/09\/Dwight-Howard-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/09\/Dwight-Howard-1024x682.webp 1024w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/09\/Dwight-Howard-768x512.webp 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1100px) 100vw, 1100px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dwight is still an NBA free agent even if he hasn&#8217;t yet formally joined WWE. Howard discussed his perspective on joining a whole new area in an interview at his Nashville tryout.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ALSO READ: <a title=\"NBA Injury Update: Some Big Stars Are Already Injured Before the Start of the Season\" href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/nba-injury-update-some-big-stars-are-already-injured-before-the-start-of-the-season\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">NBA Injury Update: Some Big Stars Are Already Injured Before the Start of the Season<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Former Lakers star Dwight Howard offered a WWE contract<\/h2>\n<p><em>&#8220;I think the ball is in his court. It\u2019s a funny thing, Dwight, in the conversations we had, was like, \u2018You know, I really want to do this. I\u2019m serious, I really want to do this.\u2019 But we hear that a lot and there\u2019s a difference between saying I want to do this and putting in the grind and doing the work to get there. [He] came by our tryouts in Nashville, was incredibly entertaining, jumping in promos by himself and then with others. Incredibly entertaining, really driven to want to do this,&#8221; <\/em>Triple H <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qO-TRPpZ424\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qO-TRPpZ424\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The former Lakers star looks the part, too, standing at a sculpted 265 pounds and 6-foot-10 in height. The NBA player meets the requirements to be a professional wrestler. 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Even one NBA player is being invited to enter the ring by him. Dwight Howard, former Lakers star, has been extended an open offer to join the business. NBA champion Dwight Howard made a big impression at the WWE&#8217;s pre-SummerSlam auditions, and he&#8217;s continued [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":407119,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85,51],"tags":[1903,3118],"class_list":["post-407118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-los-angeles-lakers","category-nba","tag-dwight-howard","tag-triple-h"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}