I hope Dwight realizes the longer he waits the fewer free agents will be available to sign and help him
@WojYahooNBA: Y! Sources: Kobe Bryant's message to Dwight Howard in Tuesday's meeting: Let me teach you how to be a champion. http://t.co/F8fXUcrnKp
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Y! Sources: Kobe Bryant's message to Dwight Howard in Tuesday's meeting: Let me teach you how to be a champion. <a href="http://t.co/F8fXUcrnKp">http://t.co/F8fXUcrnKp</a></p>— Adrian Wojnarowski (@WojYahooNBA) <a href="https://twitter.com/WojYahooNBA/statuses/352539495138201601">July 3, 2013</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> When Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant spoke to Dwight Howard on Tuesday, his words to the free-agent center resounded an unmistakable and unflinching message: Let me teach you how to be a champion. "You need to learn how it's done first, and I can teach you here," Bryant told Howard during the Lakers' presentation, witnesses in the room described to Yahoo! Sports. Bryant didn't come to Howard's recruitment meeting in Beverly Hills to appease him, but to challenge Howard to stay and embrace the burden of the franchise's culture and embrace Bryant's demanding disposition. Bryant invoked Michael Jordan's hard-driving ways as his blueprint, and how it pushed the Chicago Bulls to six titles. Bryant, a five-time NBA champion, insisted he wouldn't retreat in pushing Howard every day, that as much as the Lakers needed Howard, Howard needed Bryant and the Lakers, too. "You have to learn how it's done," Bryant told Howard, witnesses described. "I know how to do it and I've learned from the best – players who have won multiple times over and over." "Instead of trying to do things your way, just listen and learn and tweak it, so it fits you," Bryant told him. Howard has retreated to Colorado for a few days, surrounded by representatives, to make a decision on his future. The Lakers are fighting frontrunner Houston, Dallas, Atlanta and Golden State to sign him. At times in the 2012-13 season, Bryant and Howard clashed over decidedly different day-to-day approaches to the game. Away from the floor, Howard's lighthearted tomfoolery clashed with Bryant's relentlessly serious-minded way. Bryant is rehabilitating a torn Achilles, but is expected to be back early in the Lakers season. Before the Lakers ever traded for Howard a year ago, each player had reservations about playing together, about how they would blend. As the Lakers struggled, the construction of a relationship was clearly strained, but there were times when they found common ground. If this was goodbye between them on Tuesday, Bryant had gone out the way he had come into a relationship with Howard: telling him his basketball truths, his beliefs, his way. "You have to learn how it's done," Bryant told Dwight Howard on the way out of the Lakers, or maybe the way back into them. Only now, Dwight Howard gets the final word.
If Dwight goes to... Houston- He wants to win. Lakers- He wants the Hollywood/fame lifestyle Golden State- He wants to win and make less money and a crazy trade miracle has been pulled off. Dallas- He is a monstrous idiot who needs to cede his decisionmaking to a council of advisors appointed by David Stern
You do not have a strong grasp of history, my friend. Detroit beat up on Chicago, then Chicago swept them in 1991. Orlando knocked Chicago out in 1995, then Chi kicked their ass. LA whooped up on San Antonio, then the Spurs knocked them out in 2003. Miami beat Dallas, Dallas beat Miami. You seem to think that the Perkins of 2010 is the Perkins of now, which he ain't. And that our team is going to be an 8-seed team next year, which it will not.
Pretty much this. Fegan and Cuban are BFF's, which is the only reason why Dallas even got a sit-down in the first place.
There's no contract bidding, no sign and trade deals. Cuban Fegan collusion is possible but pretty inconceivable. I see no need for the duplicity
i remember NY was a smokescreen for LBJ to Miami, while i dont believe thats the case here it's not unprecedented. Also in before Ramona Shelburne is a hating reporter who loves the Mavs and is ruining her cred.
If he goes to Dallas, the league needs to look into relationship between Cuban and Fegan + investigate this whole deal. There's no logic behind Dwight choosing Dallas unless he is given money under the table or something else.
Exactly! Who in their right mind would want to go to Dallas right now, with the way their team is structured? O.J. Mayo is going to Milwaukee and there's just Dirk there. Can Cuban suit up in a Mavericks uniform and play for Dallas for 82 games? :grin: Yeahh... didn't think so.
Perk is a virtual non-factor these days. He should be thanking his lucky stars he hasn't been amnestied.
