Howard never wanted to be hated

[Rios15]

Dwight Howard said his indecision on whether or not he would stay with Orlando was the result of trying to keep everybody happy.

"That's one of the lessons that I learned, you know. I can't make everybody happy," Howard told Ric Bucher during ESPN’s "Sunday Conversation."

"And it was a tug of war between my feelings and the fans and everybody else and their feelings and what happened to LeBron. And I saw him -- everybody hated him for leaving Cleveland and what he did," Howard said of LeBron James' free-agent move from the Cavaliers to the Heat in 2010. "I never wanted anybody to hate me, you know. I wanted everybody to love me, you know, like me, for sticking around and doing what they wanted me to do. And making everybody else happy. And that was a valuable lesson for me, you know.

"I can't make everybody happy."

Howard acknowledged his previous desire to be traded to the Nets.

"That was a team I wanted to go to," Howard said. "I felt like I could go there and write my own history. I was worried about what people would think, you know. 'If you go to L.A. everybody's going to say you're like Shaq. Everybody's going to say this about you.' And now I'm at the point where, so what, who cares what people say. This is my destiny, this is where I want to be, this is what I want to do with my life. I can’t worry about what everybody else is saying."

Via Ric Bucher/ESPN (via Michael Katz/USA TODAY)


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[Pugz]

i know his six baby mommas dont hate him, or his child support.

 

[Rios15]

He has 6 baby mommas? :|

 

[Pugz]

5 or 6 im pretty sure. hes pretty religious too so its even more funny/sad.

 

[Lake Louise]

It goes 50/50. Some people like to be hated, and will embrace it. Others prefer to try and make everyone happy. I don't hate him, even though he's now on the Lakers. Just a player that I've always liked, no matter what.

 

[buzzy]

fuck him

 

[Brutalis]

I liked D12 ok. But after the whole ordeal then fucking the NBA over going to the most fabricated pos franchise in sports got me caring less what happens to him. Fuck that puss.

Same thing for LBJ. No respect for gutless flakey ass fake people.

 

[Pugz]

how in the world are they gutless?

 

[jonathanlambert33]

I wonder how many athletes have a girl(s) in every city they play in?

 

[Brutalis]

I've seen more spine in jellyfish. I've seen more guts in 11 year old kids.
-Brand New

 

[Pugz]

they both played with their teams potential and couldnt win. some of the shit was dumb but i would venture to say 70% of that was media blowing smoke and selling stories.

im not saying the way thet went about it was right but the sit back and say how shady and gutless they are is pretty narrow minded.