Even though it would probably be in his best interest to stop talking to the media about his Orlando days, Dwight Howard apparently can’t help himself.
A few days ago, Dwight gave an interview to KCAL-TV in LA about his past. Dwight had some less than flattering things to say about his former teammates. At this point, Dwight simply needs to decline to speak about Orlando. And if he chooses to speak, he certainly shouldn’t add fuel to the fire.
He has learned nothing from LeBron James, who has done it the completely opposite way.
Longtime Magic point guard Jameer Nelson criticized former teammate Dwight Howard‘s professionalism, saying he needs to “take ownership” of the things he says publicly about his former team.
Howard told KCAL-TV in L.A. recently that “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.”
“At some point, when are you [Dwight] gonna as a man, when are you going to take ownership and stay out of the media in a professional manner?” Nelson told the Sentinel after Wednesday’s shooatround in Miami.
“I would be less of a man to comment on certain things that people comment on about me and my teammates. We had a great run as a group, as core guys, and he was a part of it (reaching the 2009 Finals) and for him to say things about anybody in a negative manner, that’s up to him.
“That’s his opinion. If that’s how he feels, that’s how he feels.”
Nelson and Howard were close, drafted together in the first round in 2004.
But their relationship eroded after Howard said that he would love to play with some of the league’s elite point guards, such aas Chris Paul.
H/T Orlando Sentinel
