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🗓️ 19 June 2025
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Dwight Howard talks about Phil Jackson almost coaching the Lakers, clashing styles under Mike D’Antoni, and compares the locker room dynamics of playing with Kobe Bryant vs. LeBron James. He also reveals how back surgery and team politics shaped his career decisions.
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0:00.0 | observation. So for me, like, it's all about, uh, it's all about, you know, watching how people |
0:07.2 | handle rooms, okay? And I'm watching dynamics because from the outside, you hear stuff. |
0:14.1 | And then you're in the locker room. You're in the locker room. So you're in the locker room. |
0:17.5 | So you're in the locker room. Phil is the, who, Phil Jackson's the coach? Oh, no, I wish. He was supposed to come and coach that year. We could talk about that. |
0:24.9 | He was supposed to come and coach. We had a conversation. |
0:27.1 | And he wanted to do the 41, only home games and didn't want to go on the road. Is that the time? |
0:30.9 | Well, see, what happened was he was about to have back surgery. He wasn't going to be able to travel. And so he wanted to make |
0:37.7 | sure that this doctor was going to be okay with him coming back to coach. We had just literally |
0:42.8 | talked right before they made the decision to bring in. Frank Vogel, wasn't he? No, it wasn't |
0:49.4 | frame Vogel. It was Mike Dan Tony. It was Mike Dan Tony. I literally was just talking to field. The first time. I was talking to field and he's like, Dwight, I really want to coach you. |
1:00.0 | Oh, I remember because he said we're going to average 140 points game a night. And we didn't need to do that. Yeah, we didn't need to do that. All we had to do is beat people up. We got the greatest closer. |
1:13.3 | You got the two biggest big man in the paint, |
1:16.5 | Pal Gassau and myself, who's going to stop us? |
1:21.3 | But we tried to play a fast-paced game with older players. |
1:22.3 | I'm the youngest one. |
1:25.5 | And I just had back surgery, and I just had a torn labor. So why not slow the game down and play the pace that we need? |
1:29.8 | We don't have to, Steve Nash doesn't have to go crazy. |
1:33.0 | He just had back surgery. |
1:34.3 | Coaches, but this is the part of dynamics. |
1:36.4 | My interest is on the inside. |
1:37.8 | So how many coaches coach you? |
1:42.2 | Like if you put the big coaches, you had Antonio. |
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