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to the Lock on Lakers podcast I'm Antonyer. I'm joined by Pete Zayas, Pete Dwight Howard is back.

Yeah man, worked out. Everything worked out.

So a little piece of good news for sure.

I, it's just, it still, it still will never cease to amaze me how excited we are that Dwight

Howard is back?

Like given where this season was starting from and like not only am I excited to have him back

from the standpoint of like he was really helping the Lakers but also I still maintain that he has one of the

coolest stories not just this season but maybe ever like one of the like just in terms of redemption and maturation and all of that like

Dwight Howard this season has been a nothing short of of of incredible both on and off the court.

Yeah, he, from afar, I don't want to act like I know the man, but from afar,

he seems like somebody who has found himself in the last year and of which the Lakers are you know part of his story but it goes beyond that right he was the first

NBA players to be vocal about incorporating social justice reform messaging into the return.

He, you know, he had the mother of one of his children pass away.

He's been, he's been dealing with... of one of his children pass away.

He's been dealing with family issues

or personal issues.

That's the extent to which we know about it.

And he's donating the rest of his salary to you know he's donating the rest of the salary.

You know he's donating the rest of the salary.

Like $700,000.

Yeah, and just he's, Dwight's become one of those people, which again, this is hard to, you know, considering what, where he was several years ago,

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