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VIDEO Recap: Dwight Howard’s Drama With Former Orlando Teammates

By | March 9, 2013|

dwighthoward2011What a week for the Lakers. Wednesday night, the Lakers overcame a 25 point-deficit to beat the New Orleans Hornets. Friday night, the Lakers did it again, erasing a 15 point deficit to put them into overtime and eventually seal the win. Yet of course, this is Los Angeles and the drama lives on even off the basketball court.

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This week in an interview with KCAL9/CBS2, Dwight Howard made an interesting comment when responding to a question about him being criticized for his happy-go-lucky demeanor. Amidst a long winded response to explain how his smiling personality is how he’s always played the game, also came this statement.

“My team in Orlando was a team full of people who nobody wanted…I was the leader and I led that team with a smile on my face.”

Granted, taken out of context, the quote is far less than complimentary and got back to plenty of former teammates (via the media), including Jameer Nelson, Rashard Lewis, and JJ Redick. Even his former coach Stan Van Gundy chimed in. We recap the entire situation below.

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  • Rld

    The media too often instigates shit. They dig for sensationalism unfortunately. It’s like the kid who tries to make other kids get into a fight so they can stand by and watch them fight. Sad.

  • JDubb

    Dwight is too nice of a guy to say a mean/disrespectful comment like that and mean what the media twisted it into! Dont worry about it Dwight, just keep doing what your doing. Go Lakers!

  • http://twitter.com/kevinnrl Kevin Linares

    Totally agree with Dwight being afraid with what he says because he does care of how people look at him even though he might say otherwise. Dwight’s comments were taking a bit further obviously than what he meant but it is somewhat true what he said. Players on that Orlando Magic team are not the best he could have had with the exception of a few. I look at Lebron James and his Cleveland team a bit the same as Dwight’s team in Orlando. Both took their teams to the finals and lost, both left their teams as well. Something I am looking forward to seeing when LA visits Orlando is if the reception Howard gets is the same, worse, or not as bad as it was for when Lebron returned to Cleveland for the first time.

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