OT: Could this guy be a bigger punk?

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Boob-No-More said:
In order to have your number retired, don't you have to BE retired???? Has any active NBA player ever had their number retired? Seems a bit premature for Dwight to talk about having his number retired while he's still an active player.

BNM
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Jordan? Didn't the Heat retire 23 while Jordan was still playing?
 
I am glad Orlando has moved on from the Dwightmare. I would not have had a problem with #7 being worn either. Has BRoy been around Portland since coming to the game on Crawford's b Day?
 
jlprk said:
Maybe he was a punk to the Magic, but he is our hero in teaching Laker fans some humility.
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Yeah I definitely have enjoyed a superstar turning his back to the Lakers. Hoping this is the beginning of terrible decade of piss and gold teams. The Knicks have shown that just spending a ton of money and being in the biggest market doesn't guarantee anything.
 
jlprk said:
I think it's more than never knowing. I think even the graybeards who followed the team in 1973 fall for the dogma that no big star had ever dumped the Lakers till Howard. They have been so indoctrinated over the years that they forgot. So they fail to pass on that bit of history to the young, who thus never know. It's forgetting for the old, not never knowing, due to Official Laker History erasing unpleasant thoughts.
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Wilt was 37 at that time, a graybeard in his own right. He scored less than 15 PPG two straight seasons and hadn't scored 30+ for 8 seasons. He made up for it with his excellent free throw shooting.

He used to be a really big star.
 
Shaq went to the Heat and won a championship. That's what you call a former player haunting the L*kers.
 
Denny Crane said:
Shaq went to the Heat and won a championship. That's what you call a former player haunting the L*kers.
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Somehow I feel that won't happen with D-Ho. That team is winning a championship if Harden can will it, not the other way around. Now if this was 2009 Dwight were talking about, it might be a different subject altogether. Nevertheless, the league was not as strong then as it is now (no D-Rose dominance, LeBron in Cleveland, Indy weak, NYK weak, KD not quite beasting at his best yet, etc etc).
 
StumptownHoliday said:
Somehow I feel that won't happen with D-Ho. That team is winning a championship if Harden can will it, not the other way around. Now if this was 2009 Dwight were talking about, it might be a different subject altogether. Nevertheless, the league was not as strong then as it is now (no D-Rose dominance, LeBron in Cleveland, Indy weak, NYK weak, KD not quite beasting at his best yet, etc etc).
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Houston will not go anywhere. The nightmare will haunt Houston for the length of his contract.
 
Denny Crane said:
Isn't he in the top 3 Magic players in history? I can only think of (top of my head) 2 others arguably better: Penny and Shaq.
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Howard was a much better player than Hardaway, and although he gets a bad rap, he plays a ton of games each year, and plays in pain.
 
Natebishop3 said:
Jordan? Didn't the Heat retire 23 while Jordan was still playing?
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Yes, but just barely. The Heat retired number 23 in Jordan's number on April 11, 2003, 5 days before he played his last NBA game and retired for the third time. It was his last game in Miami, and he'd already announced he was retiring after the regular season was over. Pat Riley wanted to honor Jordan for his contributions to the game. So, they raised a half Chicago/half Washingtonth number 23 jersey to the rafters in Jordan's honor. Of course, Jordan never played for the Heat. It was also the first number the Heat retired.

Since the Blazers are the most generous team in all of sports, when it comes to retiring numbers, maybe we should retire #12 in Dwight's honor. That way, if things don't work out in Houston, Portland would be his first choice of where to go to next. With his great shot blocking and rebounding, he'd be the perfect mentor for Meyers Leonard.

BNN
 
The_Realist said:
Howard was a much better player than Hardaway, and although he gets a bad rap, he plays a ton of games each year, and plays in pain.
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Yeah Regularized APM says he's significantly better than T-Mac as well.

It is really Shaq and him at the top.
 
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