Tomorrow is never promised.
Don’t put off what you can do today because tomorrow might not come. It is obvious Dwight Howard is trying to reshape his image in the latter stages of his career, but sadly he won’t be able to do that with Kobe Bryant.
Here is what he is saying about those regrets to SI.
“I really can’t speak for Kobe, so I’ll speak for myself,” Howard said. “In that season that I played here, I think there was a lot of egos that was [sic] in the way of us being the team we wanted to be.”
Howard acknowledged that his pride got in the way of them having a successful partnership.
“I know that I approached that season wanting to be the best version of myself and also the man,” Howard said. “You know, I’m young, I just felt like that at the time. It was really hard for me and Kobe to really communicate. I think we were just at two different mental stages.”
Before he had the chance to truly mend things with Bryant, he learned that he had died in a helicopter on Jan. 26 with his 13-year-old daughter Gianna and seven other people. Howard was on the team plane flying back from Philadelphia when he heard the news.
“I was in such shock that I didn’t think it was real,” Howard said. “I went to DeMarcus [Cousins] and told him and I told AD [Anthony Davis] and LeBron [James]. I was the first one. I went to the bathroom and I just broke down, like, man, I can’t believe this is happening right now.”
Howard was crushed.
There were so many things he wished he had said. So many things he wished he had done.
Flip the page for Dwight Howard speaking about Kobe and the Lakers.