Dwight Howard's Hobbies Include Owning 50 Guns & 20 Snakes

After bouncing around for a of couple years, Dwight Howard has found his home in Houston. The Rockets center has set up a life in Texas that includes collecting guns and snakes. Per his interview with Jared Zwerling of Bleacher Report...

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Then there are Howard’s more exuberant activities, like riding around his neighborhood with his friends in his Can-Am Spyder three-wheeled bikes. He also likes going to the gun range—”It’s what you do in Texas,” he says—and he has about 10 different kinds in his collection encompassing more than 50 total, including shotguns, semiautomatics and handguns, such as one of his favorites, a gold-looking Desert Eagle pistol. He also collects, just for show, miniguns and bazookas.

But there’s no better way to describe Howard’s eccentricity and connection to Texas than through his pet snakes at home. All 20 of them. I tell him at dinner, not expecting a serious response, “I’ve got to see them before I leave Houston.”

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