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  1. pound4pound

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    some articles you just shake your heard the entire time you read



    Years ago, Dwight Howard apparently said something silly. Former Orlando Magic CEO Bob Vander Weide told the Orlando Sentinel's George Diaz that, before Howard was traded to the Houston Rockets, the superstar compared himself to Michael Jordan, Muhammad Ali and Nelson Mandela.

    "When he told me he was an icon, guess what three names he used [to compare himself to]?" Vander Weide said. "Michael Jordan. Muhammad Ali. Nelson Mandela."

    Let's pause for a sec while we all do a faceplant.

    "Are you kidding me?'" Vander Weide said. "We've been to the Finals once and you're a great athlete, and you're an icon like these three? I knew it was over. I knew there was no chance of keeping him."

    Two thoughts:

    1) Yikes. Even if Howard said this when he was 25 or 26, it's not great that this is coming out now. Lots of fans think of him as a clown who lacks self-awareness, and this will do nothing to change that. It's generally good to set the bar high, but wow.

    2) Doesn't this feel a little ... unnecessary? Vander Weide obviously wouldn't have put this out there when the Magic were trying to re-sign Howard to a long-term deal. There's something unsavory about making one of the best players in franchise history look bad three seasons after his departure.

    Elsewhere in the piece, it is revealed that Vander Weide keeps in touch with some former Magic players, including Shaquille O'Neal, Hedo Turkoglu and Jason Williams. I guess Howard is not on that list


    http://www.cbssports.com/nba/eye-on...howard-compared-himself-to-jordan-ali-mandela
     
    pound4pound, Oct 19, 2015
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    I agree wholeheartedly with 1 and 2.

    If the Magic owner had kept Howard he'd be ecstatic and would have loved him deeply while sharing a laugh with an older Howard about those quotes. Now he's crapping on him after he left? Say that to your friends, man, don't say that to the press. You think your players don't see that? You think guys on your team don't look at you differently now and wonder when you're going to make fun of them for something they said behind privately behind closed doors?

    Poor form.

    Also Howard is an imbecile.
     
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    Pretty sure Howard wasn't traded to the rockets.
     
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    +1 :Magic2:
     
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    Did the author mean "facepalm"? Because face plant seems wrong here and there doesn't seem to be a facepalm large enough for if Howard actually said that. That said, it's ancient news, and the author is right, no need to bring it up now. Still, wow Howard is a clueless, delusional clown.
     
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    ...and he is already a winner according to himself.
     
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    That's an insult to Nelson Mandela (and the others as well). Howard has no clue about the hardships Mandela went through and what he achieved or his philosophy. Howard is a tool
     
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    Luckily for us, Howard was never a "real" Laker.
     
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    facepalm: [​IMG]



    faceplant:
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    I think his comments could qualify as either lol
     
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    LOL
     
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    [​IMG] ^^^ at both of those
     
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    Howard could be just joking. I doubt he was serious enough to actually believe he's on the same status as those three. Screwing around with someone's mind. That's sort of on the same plane as Young proclaiming himself as the greatest shooter of all time.
     
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    he's also the guy that asked us to amnesty Kobe...i wouldnt put it past him
     
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    Point well taken... Yeah...real's right. Howard is an imbecile.
     
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    You Only Shoot Once.
     
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    He is a clown...thats a fact at this point. And he will never win anything in this league because there are always guys that out-will him.
     
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    How can you guys talk about a champion like that?
     
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