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Well now we know he's def not coming back
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 les.
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.
Well now we know he's def not coming back
Yup^
Kobe's probably the worst leader out there but he dropped a lot of truth bombs there. Dwight is not about the pressure, he wants to have fun and win. Two totally different mindsets which is probably one of the main reason Dwight is not re-signing with the Lakers.
LOL kobe's right. But the pussy Howard is hes gonna have to go get a prescription from his Gynocologist after that ego check.
Basically Kirby is daring Dwight to leave, tbh.
Kobe's the best leader....when you put pressure on teammates just by your presence alone...that speaks volumes and it makes people better because it makes them commit to themselves....hence becoming better players something that no amount of passes or assists can achieve.
Dwight is not ready for that old throw back leadership...but I still doubts he leaves 30 large on the table
Kobe pitching to Coward is probably the best chess piece Houston has. Everything Kirbs said in that meeting was music to the Rocket's ears.
Kobe getting desperate.
I think the most important thing that Kobe could teach Dwight is that a girl can't get pregnant if you PIITB.
Those words are exactly what Howard didn't want to hear.
This is really astounding. The Lakers have let Bryant run the franchise since 20004 - when he ran Shaquille out of town. Had David Stern not rigged that Pau Gasol trade, Bryant would only have the Shaquille rings and nothing more than a few first round exits, and even an entire miss of the playoffs (in 2005). Yet even with one leg now, they continue to let this fool dictate 99% of franchise policy. Honestly, the whole thing defies reality.
"Howard has retreated to Colorado for a few days"
10 year anniversary tbh
Let me teach you how to be a champion? So Kobe told Dwight to find ANOTHER hall of fame big to coattail?
Kobe won with 1 HOF each le...
Duncan won with 3 Each le....
neither manu, tony, nor robinson were hall of fame caliber players in 03. who were the 3 hall of famers duncan won with in 99?
Ok, then Shaq and Gasol weren't HOF players in their first championship.
Wasn't Stephen Jackson the spurs 2nd leading scorer in those playoffs?
manu was a rook and TP was in his 2nd year. They weren't even all star level players.
And who were the 3 hall of famers in 99 again? Dodged that one
"Let me teach you how to be a champion. Here, you see this? This is a custom jacket with extra long coattails. Put this on.."
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.
Looks like Kobe is already teaching him something...maybe he will "tweak" things and not have more illegitimate children.
The odds are stacked against the Lakers. I'm sure he's all in with Houston.
Lol Dwight is surely not signing with LA now. Kobe uttered the words "Champion", something Dwight will never be.
He needs to teach him how to lead a team to higher than a 7 seed first.
Kobe mind ing dwight
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