Smack / Jun 14, 2009 / 12:03 am
Dwight’s chips are on the table; meet the LeBron of the NHL
His team’s back is against the ropes and their legs are wobbly, so Dwight Howard pulled the only card he had left in the motivational playbook: He made a guarantee. Sort of. “You want me to get up here and say the season is going to be over tomorrow? That’s not what anybody should do or anybody should think,” Howard told reporters going into today’s Game 5. “I believe that we’re going to be going back to L.A.” So it didn’t exactly have the bravado of Jim Fassel’s “We’re GOING to the playoffs” poker speech, or even Mo Namath’s “We’re the best team in basketball” line from the Cavs/Magic series, but Dwight got the point across … Read More »
