[外電] Dwight Howard has alienated everybody

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Dwight Howard has alienated everybody he ever knew in Orlando

He owes entire city an apology

Congratulations, Dwight Howard.

You have now done the impossible.

You have pretty much alienated everybody you ever knew in Orlando.

The fans who once poured their hearts, souls and disposable income into you
are irate because you lied to them about your "love" and "loyalty" to the
city.

恭喜你，Dwight

你完成了不可能的事，這些當初把他們的心跟靈魂都交給你的奧蘭多球迷們，因為你
"愛"與"忠誠"的謊言，現在對你只剩下厭惡。

The kids who once idolized you can't stand you because you stiffed them by
blowing off your own youth basketball camp before bailing out and
high-tailing it to the West Coast.

Your former coach Stan Van Gundy and former general manager Otis Smith -- two
decent men who had your back at every turn – are surely disappointed in the
way you threw them under the bus and cost them their seven-figure jobs.

And, sadly and pathetically, you've even lost the respect of your former
Magic teammates – a bunch of good guys who you once called your "family" but
now have denigrated and minimized into a "a team full of people nobody
wanted."

當初為了鬧離隊而未出席籃球營的風波傷害那些視你為偶像的孩子們。

還有曾經總是做你後盾的前GM Otis & Manager SVG.

也失去了前隊友們的尊重，那些你曾稱為是一個"family"的團隊，現在只是你口中
所謂"一群沒人想要的球員"。

"I always tell people, 'Hey, my team in Orlando was a team full of people who
nobody wanted, and I was the leader and I led that team with a smile on my
face," Howard said in an interview earlier this week with an L.A. television
reporter.

Is anybody shocked that Dwight, who in recent years has surrounded himself
with an army of bootlickers and brownnosers, believes the world revolves
around him and only him? Is anybody surprised that Dwight is convinced that
nobody else except his three favorite people -- me, myself and I -- had
anything to do with the success of the Magic during his eight years with the
franchise?

有人對Dwight在LA電視專訪說的話感到震驚嗎？

對DH來說，這對象除了三個人以外：me, myself and I.

His former teammates certainly aren't.

"At some point, when are you [Dwight], as a man, going to take ownership and
stay out of the media in a professional manner?" Howard's former best friend,
Magic point guard Jameer Nelson said when asked about Howard's demeaning
comments.

"It's disrespectful," former Magic player Rashard Lewis said of Dwight's
comments. "We helped Dwight become the player he was. We made a good run.
Hell, look at those (conference and division) banners hanging in the stands.
They don't say Dwight Howard on them..."

Former Magic player J.J. Redick probably put it best in an interview with
ESPN: "I'm not surprised by it. ... I would be more surprised when Dwight
starts taking responsibility. … You can't take all the credit and not accept
any of the blame."

You can if you're Dwight, the arrogant, egotistical brat who has never once
apologized or held himself accountable for the deplorable, duplicitous way he
left Orlando. You know he must be a petty, back-stabbing boor when classy,
mild-mannered players like Nelson, Redick and Lewis are taking shots at him
from locker rooms all over the country.

Howard, as you might expect, refuses to take any of the blame for his
demeaning words and is frenetically flip-flopping as he has done so many
times before. He's even resorted to his favorite excuse – blaming the media
for "twisting and turning" his words and blowing the whole thing "out of
proportion."

Sort of reminds me of the day Dwight tried to blame the media for making up
the story that he tried to get Van Gundy fired. Remember how he looked like
the biggest dope in America as he stood there dumbfounded – like the emperor
with no clothes -- as the media told him Van Gundy himself had confirmed the
story?

"My statement was just to say that our team that I played with in Orlando, we
were the underdogs," Howard said as he tried to lie, cry and deny his way out
of this latest self-induced PR Dwightmare. "Nobody really talked about our
team. It was underrated. Everybody overlooked us for the whole time I was
there in Orlando and I hated that. We all hated that. We thrived off that. My
comments were never to say anything disrespectful … or downgrade any of
those guys.

"I would always tell them I wouldn't trade them for the world. That's how I
viewed it. For the most part, those guys know that. They know who I am and
they probably just heard something and people twisted it and turned it in
different ways. I'm not that kind of guy. I would never disrespect those
guys. It just kind of got blown out of proportion."

Do you notice anything missing from Dwight's extensive explanation of his
"team full of people who nobody wanted" comments?

Dwight再度LUB, 試圖把責任推回到了媒體身上，是媒體曲解了他的話。

但他沒有解釋他說前隊友們是一群沒人要的球員這句話。

還記得當初他否認他要求炒掉SVG, 把責任推回到媒體上，但當媒體告訴他這消息
已經被SVG證實時的囧樣嗎？那睜眼說瞎話的樣子就像是國王的新衣童話一般。

Never once does he take responsibility for what he said.

Never once does he say, "I made a mistake" by choosing the wrong words.

Never once does he apologize for what he said.

Never once.

Dwight Howard owes everybody in this city an apology.

The fans, the kids, Van Gundy, Otis Smith and a Magic organization that did
everything it could to make him happy.

Mostly, though, he owes his former teammates an apology.

To elaborate on Jameer's eloquent assessment of his former best friend:

When are you, Dwight, as a man, going to stand up and take ownership of all
the harm you've done and all the people you've hurt?

他從來不為自己說過的話負責

從來沒有一次為他不當的發言承認：我說錯話了

從來沒有為他所說過的話道歉過

Dwight Howard欠他的前隊友們一個道歉

欠這個城市所有人一個道歉。

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◆ From: 101.12.197.166
推 josh17:通通都是別人的錯!
推 GGGHILL:他跟敗能真的是當世兩大中二 一個出嘴一個身體力行
推 kirchize:下禮拜主場打爆魔獸
→ kirchize:我只能說海尼根 當機立斷的好，我們果然是當局者迷阿
→ kirchize:不僅沒收更爛的敗能 更從金塊跟76er接收 Vv 阿福等好菜
→ kirchize:雖然JJ被交易出去，但是換來的更是未來的希望
推 GGGHILL:其實我對阿福沒啥感情 選秀反而希望選個2號go-to guy
→ auoto:打爆DH吧
→ GGGHILL:感情上老尼還是希望他當魔術先發控球@@
→ kirchize:現在只差一個頂級PG 跟JJ 歸來～～就陣容完整了
推 dimblackjQ:中二之外，他的精神狀況反反覆覆，有點怪怪的 ...
→ kirchize:老尼可以的話，我也希望有一個他的接班人就是了
→ kirchize:畢竟老尼32了 如果三年內可以回到強權衝擊總冠軍
→ kirchize:我想PG還是需要更好的人選
→ dimblackjQ:推GGG大，選個夠高的頂級SG，對阿福真的沒感情 XDD
→ dimblackjQ:雙能衛尤佳!!
推 GGGHILL:不過控球很多是越老越有味道XD 像飄髮跟Billups
→ dimblackjQ:老尼屆時可以當候場導師，家有老臣，感覺就是溫馨呀 QQ
→ kirchize:雙能衛當然很好
→ dimblackjQ:記得Bibby最後那幾年也有老來俏過~~
→ kirchize:恩～～槍西嗎？希望可以變成槍西阿 話說槍西也是以前魔術
推 GGGHILL:還有米粉頭 大班都曾是魔術球員XD
→ GGGHILL:沒記錯大班當時好像當M.Doleac替補
推 kirchize:應該有錯 大班是用去跟Hill先簽後換的～
→ kirchize:大白那時候還沒進來就是了
→ kirchize:A 1998大白就進來了～～所以有可能喔！ 我記錯了 XD
→ kirchize:最近越來越忘東忘西了....初老症了嗎  窘
推 GGGHILL:還是Andrew Declercq @@
→ GGGHILL:哈哈哈我也是
→ kirchize:這兩之大白　真是魔術以前內線的痛,我一開始也不看好Vv
→ kirchize:不過海尼根真的厲害～～白白中的霸主都可以看的出來
→ Sheffield3:其實我覺得滿好笑的，現在媒體擺明要看他笑話，好不容
→ Sheffield3:易安靜一陣子，比賽內容也有起色，結果突然冒個中二發
→ Sheffield3:言，自己挖坑自己跳，是一陣子沒聚焦在他身上不習慣嗎
→ Sheffield3:要不要跟LBJ上個禮儀課程學怎麼洗白阿XD
※ 編輯: Sheffield3      來自: 101.12.197.166       (03/08 14:34)
→ tbgorays:哀 Dwight這樣忘恩負義，我看著房間裡2件他的球衣跟1件T-
→ tbgorays:shirt，真是百感交集
推 dimblackjQ:Doleac ~~ 想起MVP2004時的回憶  好用白柱 XD
推 wildwest:我只記得以前最強的白人中鋒好像是R.Seikaly
→ wildwest:那時候很瘋NBA Live系列 場場先發都是他XD
→ wildwest:希望VV超越這個白人前輩吧~
→ Drexler:後Shaq時代的Seikaly~~這也太懷念了XD
→ Drexler:記得那年替補Schayes也是個老白白
推 josh17:所以隊史上來說...最強的魔術白人中鋒是Vv?還是鍋貼?
推 rbking21:我相信很快那"白人"兩個字就會變成多餘的了
推 dimblackjQ:夭壽~ 我把NBA LIVE 2004說成 MVP2004 (羞愧致歉 XD
→ dimblackjQ:被西狂大點醒XD。 Seikaly好用!!長髮電動中超有型!!
→ dimblackjQ:(實因MVP BASEBALL 2005太過經典  科科)
推 rbking21:我推MVP BASEBAL05 各種模組可以再戰十年 連音樂都經典
推 killer922:Seikaly在後SHAQ時代是PENNY在禁區的好幫手
→ killer922:中間有一度表現不錯  感覺後勢看漲  可惜之後.......
→ killer922:=不過我們禁區是不是還有一個Wolf的??  每次主場進球就
→ killer922:會聽到狼叫