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By Joël Pütz | Sports journalist
Shaquille O'Neal is known for criticizing the players of the moment, but there are few who have suffered as much as Dwight Howard. The Big Diesel has also mentioned the case of the future Hall of Famer recently … but his speech has changed a lot.
Many of them have suffered his thunderbolts over the past few years. We particularly think of Rudy Gobert, Victor Wembanyama or Joel Embiid and Ben Simmons on which Shaquille O'neal never hesitates to type if the opportunity arises. Going up a little further, we could also cite the case of Javale McGee, which the old pivot ridiculed every week in Shaqtin’ a Fool.
That said, none of them had to face as much hatred of the Big Diesel as Dwight Howard. It must be said that the 2020 champion had established himself as the new Magic superstar pivot in the 2000s, where the Shaq had launched his NBA career in 1992. Worse still, he had ended up being nicknamed Superman like the Hall of Famer before him, enough to get the latter out of his hinges. From then on, it was war.
The ax of war finally buried between the Shaq and Dwight Howard
Fortunately, it would seem that it has finally found its term lately. Dwight Howard learned that he will soon be inducted at the Hall of Fame and surprised everyone by asking the Shaq to go with him on stage. What the old laker has accepted! He also returned to his reconciliation with the Big Man in his podcast:
Me and Dwight we finally had a discussion the other day. He asked me, “Why don't you love me?” And my answer was: “What makes you think that I don't love you? “He said to me,” Because you are always very critical of me. “I asked him,” You don't think I was hard with Kobe? ” Don't you think I was hard with D-Wade? This is what I do so that my guys reach the upper level. »»
As a leader, sometimes you have to push your guys. Sometimes they like it, sometimes not. But I know what I needed, what I needed, a Dog by my side. I loved annoying Kobe because he came out of crazy performances.
It will still be recalled that he and the Mamba had separated in very poor terms in 2004 … and that he tends to take out the card from “criticizing to motivate” as soon as he wants to prove that he is not a hater.
That being said, it would seem that their exchange has finished convincing D12, as the latter in turn said in the DP Show lately :
We really had a good discussion, I was very happy. We expressed certain things. It was really a good discussion, and I am happy that the universe and everything was put in place so that it happens in Orlando and that we are there in the same place, at the same time.
The Beef between Shaquille O'Neal and Dwight Howard is over. The first will even accompany the ex-Pivot of the Magic during his enthronement at the Hall of Fame, just to bury the ax of war between them. It was time.
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