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08:10 AM ET 03.07 | While Dwight Howard has since said his comments were "twisted it into a negative thing," next Tuesday's Lakers-Magic game did just get a bit more interesting. Orlando Magic guard Jameer Nelson took offense to Howard's interview with CBS2/KCAL9 in which he said, "My team in Orlando was a team full of people who nobody wanted, and I was the leader and I led that team with a smile on my face." No, Howard's teammate in Orlando for eight seasons did not like that one bit. "At some point, when are you gonna, as a man, when are you going to take ownership and stay out of the media in a professional manner?" Nelson told the Orlando Sentinel on Wednesday. ... "[If] anything he should be focused on playing for the Lakers and making the playoffs," [said Rashard Lewis].
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J.J. Redick, another former teammate, wasn't pleased, either.
"I'm not surprised by it," Redick told ESPNLosAngeles.com Wednesday evening before his Milwaukee Bucks played the Los Angeles Clippers. "I would be more surprised when Dwight starts taking responsibility. That would be the most negative thing I can say, but that's the truth.
"You can't take all the credit and not accept any of the blame."
Chrisgar
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[i]Does It Really Matter, Bros?[/]
I Love LA
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team full of people who nobody wanted
this is nothing that normal people haven't thought since then. Nelson and Redick aren't exactly hot commodities.
LL Cool AJ
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I remember a couple years ago everyone was talking about how bad LBJ looked in the media and how badly he needed some new people doing PR for him. Well, LBJ needs to send the card of whoever he works with now to Dwight because NO ONE has ever looked this bad publicly before.
Klockwork33
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Howard was probably right but he needs to stop talking for awhile to let all the drama he helped create stop festering into a full blown hate fest...
Captain Confusion
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Dwight probably didn't mean anything negative towards old teammates in this statement but I can see why they would be offended. They are professionals after all. This will be played up as a big story until they play and then, poof, no more story.
zooLEXer
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Howard seems to think he's Benjamin Franklin Rodriguez, which would make Jameer - Smalls, Big Baby - Ham, and Redick - Squints
El_Tiny Hippo
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Howard...
Oy Vey!
Eli...
Chicagoland, .
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lol....
what do you mean he 'probably didn't mean anything negative' ?
he said they suck & that he needs better players. to win
good for jameer and reddick for saying something
jgb
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It's not surprising that the comment would irk his former teammates. But let's be realistic, they are not great players. What the Orlando Magic did with Dwight Howard was similar to what the Cleveland Cavaliers did with Lebron James. They surrounded their 'franchise' player with has been or never been players.
Rashard Lewis, Hedo Turkeyglue, Nelson, Gilbert Arenas and Vince Carter were either on the downside of their careers or journeymen players. Much like Cleveland with Mo Williams, Bobbie Gibson, Zydrunas Ilgauskas and so on. Do you see the parallel?
Lebron took his talents to South Beach and won a title. Dwight Howard took his talents to Venice Beach. Let's see if it will result in a title.
It Wasn't Me
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LL Cool AJ
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jgb-
I meant, in talking about his greatness he "accidentally" threw some teammates under the bus. At the time he didn't know he had done it b/c he was wrapped up in his own greatness: "and I was the leader and I led that team with a smile on my face", but the media "misquoted" him and now he is back in the spotlight again.
Dad-gum Media!
zooLEXer
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they shoulda beat the Heat last night, so that I wouldn't have to hear about the streak all morning on Mike and Mike
LL Cool AJ
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Even Lebron didnt threw his former Cavs under the bus!
ClevelandGuy
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Nope. More like stab the city and fans in the heart though.
He'll never live the "Decision" down...
Eli...
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The difference is after the disastrous "The Decision" show -- Lebron has done well not to continually say stupid stuff. He has done great in rehabbing his public image. (a championship helped ... but many more folks would still dislike him if he said stupid stuff like Dwight)
Dwight just keeps getting worse at PR.
I like another one of Dwight's recent quotes ... something like ... 'the problems with Kobe & me were overblown -- we didn't didn't have a fistfight or anything.'
Chrisgar
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