Throughout his NBA profession, Dwight Howard has performed alongside many gifted gamers together with two of the perfect – Kobe Bryant and LeBron James.
Dwight performed with each skills at totally different levels throughout his time with the Lakers and the way in which they approached the sport couldn’t have been extra stark, Howard defined on the My Professional Opinion podcast.
“LeBron’s nearly at like someone from the south facet of Georgia,” Howard stated. “We actin’ sort of like twins. Joking, foolish, have a very good time. We get on the court docket, we nonetheless gonna have a very good time however we’re gonna dominate. Kobe, he not bullsh*tting with no person. He won’t come to the locker room to speak. So he’s simply gonna stroll all the way in which previous us.”
Like Kobe and LeBron’s attitudes, Howard’s profession was in a really totally different place when he teamed up with the 2 of them.
Dwight signed with LA in the summertime of 2012 – a workforce that included Kobe – and followers had been buzzing with anticipation as a result of he appeared to be simply the piece they wanted to take it to that subsequent degree and win a hoop.
However Bryant’s work ethic considerably clashed with Dwight’s easy-going perspective and the workforce solely ended up successful 45 video games that season.
They managed to achieve the playoffs because the seventh seed, solely to be swept by the Spurs within the first spherical.
Dwight has the hindsight to see what Kobe was making an attempt to attain. Through the podcast he acknowledged that he now understands Kobe was solely making an attempt to carry out the perfect in an unfocused veteran workforce.
As for when Dwight performed with Bron, it wasn’t till 2019 after Howard went by means of a tough patch and was finally humbled by it.
He had additionally turn into way more of a task participant so was extra open to letting another person like LeBron run the present, which helped them to win the 2020 championship within the bubble.
As for Dwight’s basketball profession because it stands, he’s reportedly eager to play for the Lakers once more, so solely time will inform if we see him again in an NBA jersey as soon as extra.
