The Dwight Howard Interview (EP 92)
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All right, what's going on, guys? Welcome back to another episode of the Bryce Crawford podcast. I'm Bryce. And today I got a very, very special guest with us today. We got Dwight Howard with us. Dwight, how are you doing, man?
I am. What's the word? I am supercalifragilisticexpialidocious today. I'm so blessed and grateful and thankful and just happy that I'm alive, man.
Amen.
Another day of life.
Dude, thanks for coming on. I was so happy.
Thanks for having me on the show, man. I remember when you reached out to me on the DMs, and you probably was like, oh, he's not going to respond. That's how I felt.
Yeah, I didn't think you were going to. You hit me back really quick, and I was like, dang.
Yeah, it was quick, and I was just like, man, you know, I really want to continue to spread, you know, the message, the gospel. So, glad you reached out, man.
Thank you. I appreciate you.
I appreciate you.
I was just telling Dwight when I was in third grade, I had a subscription, Sports Illustrated Kids, and my first magazine came to the mail. Well, there was two I remember. There's one of you dunking in the Orlando Magic jersey. It's like a side angle picture. But the poster that I told you I had in my room was you and the Superman. It was like the Orlando Magic Superman thing, and you had your hands on your hips like this. And I had it on my door when I was growing up.
I feel old, man. It is awesome though, like,
Because I remember being young and having Julius Irvin, his jersey. When I got in high school, that was the only jersey I had was Julius Irvin. And I met him so many times after that. And then he was one of the people that introduced me into the, inducted me into the Hall of Fame. So just circling back and now me and him are doing business together. He's here in Atlanta. It's crazy. Full circle. Well, congrats on being in the Hall of Fame. It's huge, man. It's huge. What is that like? How does that feel? To be honest, okay, this is what it feels like. Imagine. When we leave this earth. Well, before you leave this earth, you get a call. And when you look at the phone, it's Jesus on the hotline. And you say, my son, guess what? For all your hard work, dedication in life, being a disciple of Christ, you and your name has been put in the Lamb's book of life. You will be forever in the kingdom of God.
That's how that felt for me. Like hearing Jesus call me home because of all the hard work, dedication, effort, energy, um, sacrifice, love, so many things had to come with making it to the NBA. And to see it finally, actually at the end of it, I'm getting honored to be in the Hall of Fame. It's just nothing but God, me knowing that he is absolutely real. And it's only because of my experience. You know, everybody has had many different experiences in life. And so through my experiences, Ending up in the Hall of Fame, man, it was amazing. I probably cried. I haven't cried so hard of happiness my whole life. I didn't know it was possible to cry of happiness like that. I literally was... like hand on my knees down like thank you jesus like i can't believe like tears is flowing i cried so much that i didn't have no more tears left in my eyes like my body had let everything out yeah and it was all for happiness yeah which is just insane
Well, I appreciate everything you've done for basketball and just being like a hero, role model for, like the same way you looked up to Julius Ervin, there's so many people that were looking up to you. I mean, dude, you were on my door when I was a kid.
It was so crazy. I was on his door.
But, but. I want to go into kind of like, because I think it's important to talk about faith and sports. Because I know there's a lot of young people that try to understand how faith correlates with sports. So I want to just kind of backtrack a little bit and start back to what it was like growing up for you and how faith is intertwined with sports. I mean, you were raised in Atlanta, right? Yes, sir. You grew up, you went to a Christian school?
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