Dwight Howard
Dwight Howard
Dwight David Howard is an American professional basketball player for the Atlanta Hawks of the National Basketball Association. Howard, who plays center, had an outstanding high school career at Southwest Atlanta Christian Academy. He chose to forgo college and entered the 2004 NBA draft, and was selected first overall by the Orlando Magic. An eight-time All-Star, eight-time All-NBA team selection, five-time All-Defensive member, and three-time Defensive Player of the Year, Howard has been ranked consistently as one of the best...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth8 December 1985
CityAtlanta, GA
CountryUnited States of America
I can't wait. Everybody on this team is a hard worker, and I'm sure they're going to work to get better as individuals.
I'll joke all day, but once I get in the gym, I'm going to work hard.
I had it marked on my calendar, but I think I was a little anxious tonight. I didn't play as well as I had hoped tonight. Kevin just had a great game.
You really can't please people. I know everybody's attention is on what I'm doing on the floor.
Our coach said before the game, we got three good teams coming up in Miami, Dallas and San Antonio. We want to go out and try to beat all three teams. We started off tonight with a good win.
Sometimes things don't work like they should.
I'm a fun person to be around, laid back, love to have fun.
At first I couldn't grasp why he was always so hard on me. But I realize now he just wants me to be a great player. He knows that in my background no one ever really got on me. But he's not afraid to give me some tough love to make me better.
It was emotional out there with him going at me and I was going right back at him. We did have a little mouth battle going on out there. That little stare, I don't know what that was. I just reacted and it was fun.
The only way to shut people up is just by winning and just playing basketball.
Basketball has brought me a lot of joy, brought me a lot of good things. Just that side of it has really affected me.
Coming off a back-to-back tough game against Chicago, fatigue set in at the end of the game and that leads to turnovers.
Man, we're supposed to get wins like that, ... That's a tough loss.
That sent us off on a good note. Even the coaches are smiling lately. It's good to see old, grumpy men smiling.