Dwight Howard
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139 appearances
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard Apr 2025
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So I actually got on live during the playoffs where the people were trying to make the playoffs. And teams were just... They wasn't playing good at all. Everybody was just going. They was not doing anything. So my cousin who was in the car with me, he just kept naming players who was just sucking. They wasn't doing nothing. So I just kept saying, hey, come on. You got to come.
Hey, you come on to it. You ain't playing good. Come on.
Yeah, you can ride in the cloud car. Get your mind right. Because whatever you was doing in the league was not working. Yeah. I need you to come on. But man, we had so much fun with it. Every state that I went to after that, every country that I went to, people would just be coming up to me and they'd be like, come on. So we started to make that a thing.
The one thing that, you know, I really, you know, people talk about this, the Kobe, the Mamba mentality. And for men around him, being around a lot of basketball, you know, everybody has their way of expressing their art. And in Kobe's version, he called it the Mamba mentality, this snake mentality. This fierce competitor that once it strikes, is deadly.
And so every player has a mentality that they play with. And the reason why Kobe was at the top because his mentality was different. And so his work ethic was different. What I would say was also different was his faith and his focus. See, talk about limiting distraction. It wasn't a distraction for him. That was his mentality. His focus. Singular focus was on his one goal, winning.
So nothing else mattered. You know what I'm saying? Everybody don't have that same attitude. Or they don't have that same, they don't call it the same thing. Everybody's trying to reach this one same goal. His mentality, his focus led him in a different way.
It does because when you, just like they say, one bad apple can spoil a bunch, right? So if you have a team and you have somebody on the team who's going to everybody speaking negatively about, All those different things. That apple is going to, in turn, spoil the bunch. Because all it takes is one. So now when you have this positive attitude, and this positive attitude connects with every person.
Every person can get along with it. Now because they all have the same attitude, they could reach new heights. Who told us that first? Jesus. He said, whenever two or more gather in my name, there I am in the midst. See, I took that a different way.
When I first heard that, I thought if I pass gas in church and four people was around, then Jesus was going to be there because he said, where two or more agree, there I am in the midst. So if I pass gas, I thought he was going to be in the midst of my gas. Yeah. So I was like, okay, I got to pass gas in church. So when I did pass gas in church, they had to evacuate the whole church.
The only person that could stay in there was the pastor and me through the grace of God. See, me and him was able to withstand.
The stench. The stench. And Jesus was in the mist.
But seriously, I know that was a little jokey joke. It was a little jokey joke about Jesus being in the midst of my gas. Okay, don't take it. I don't want people going home and saying, why would Dwight say that about Jesus? That's what you thought about for a little bit. I did. Jesus had jokes. God had jokes. I used to say that when I was younger, before I dove deeper into reading in the Word.
There were scriptures in the Bible where I felt like God was trying to tell jokes.
Favorite team, Magic?
Gotta be.
It started there. Everything started there. My first eight years of my career, the Duck Contest, Superman. Yeah, that was legendary. Yeah, it started in Orlando. Obviously, I've had fun on all the teams I've been on, but Orlando is just special. The times that we've had going to the finals, which is very difficult to do with any sport, but to go there and have a city behind you.
I just remember being at the airport, pulling back up to the runway, and all the fans there clapping for us and supporting us through the series and got their flags. You could just feel the energy. So when I got out there on the court, it was like, Orlando, this is really for y'all. Like, I'm playing because I want y'all to win so bad. Like, this is why I'm doing this.
Oh, yeah.
17.
You're going to use it. This is stupid. But, oh, okay. You done had two pairs of shoes for... Four years. You put holes in the bottom of it. You wore them things every day. You had one pair you wore for school, the other pair you did for basketball. You didn't change up on me. Okay, Dwight. I got something for you. Go down door number one over there. That's Adidas contract.
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