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🗓️ 21 June 2025
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Dwight Howard opens up about his Lakers return, missing out on a contract extension, locker room politics with LeBron, and how passion is often misunderstood in the NBA. A candid look at a championship run and what really goes on behind the scenes.
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0:00.0 | as a die-hard Laker fan, okay? |
0:03.7 | And, you know, Lakers, if you're a Laker fan, |
0:06.4 | you're a Yankees fan, you're a Patriots fan, |
0:09.6 | you're a Steelers fan, you're kind of spoiled. |
0:11.7 | It's either you win or you don't, right? |
0:13.2 | I mean, that's like the standard. |
0:14.3 | Celtics is in the same category. |
0:16.5 | You come on, the first time you come with Kobe and Nash, |
0:20.7 | that doesn't work out. Okay, cool. You come |
0:22.7 | the second time around and you're playing loose. You actually look like you're having fun. You're |
0:28.5 | happy. You're like, hey, you come off the bench. I don't care. How do you need me? Put me and they |
0:34.1 | put you in boom. You're dominating. Playoff, you showed up in a major way. |
0:38.6 | You guys win a chip. |
0:41.0 | I sincerely as a fan thought, they're going to sign them for probably two or three years. |
0:45.1 | He's going to stay here and play this role. |
0:47.1 | It's tough to find guys like you in the league. |
0:49.4 | You just can't find them. |
0:50.8 | And then all of a sudden, boom, nothing happens. |
0:53.4 | Yeah, that's what i felt i was like oh man i come |
0:56.7 | in and do my job i'm secure in two more years that's all i was thinking about that's what i thought |
1:02.2 | about i was like man if i can secure two more years that's it i don't need to go nowhere else i can |
1:06.9 | get me a small little crib in in.A. already got my crib. |
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