(ThyBlackMan.com) Move over, LeBron James, there’s a new NBA villain on the rise.
With Thursday’s NBA trade deadline finally upon us, Dwight Howard’s season-long indecisiveness about his future with the Orlando Magic finally reached the tipping point, with the league’s best center possibly committing brand suicide in the process.
It’s no secret that Howard isn’t happy in Orlando, and has been threatening to opt out of his contract and become a free agent at the end of the season if the Magic didn’t trade him to one of his pre-approved teams. Those demands now seem mild in comparison to the whirlwind of emotions Howard put fans through on Wednesday.
In the span of 12 hours, Howard went from wanting to opt out of his contract, to reportedly telling his teammates he was returning next season, to once again wanting to explore free agency, before eventually telling Jarrod Rudolph of RealGM that he will waive his early termination option and play for the Magic in 2012-13.
Is your head spinning yet?
“I have gotten some bad advice. I apologize for this circus I have caused to the fans of our city,” Howard told RealGM late Wednesday night, “They didn’t deserve none of this. I’m sorry from the bottom of my heart. I will do whatever I can to make this right and do what I was put in Orlando to do.”
Bad advice is an understatement. You knew Howard had lost control of the situation when his mother spoke to Craig Sager of TNT during NBA All-Star weekend and said that she wanted him to stay in Orlando.
Do you think Michael Jordan’s mother was talking to Ahmad Rashad back in the day about where she wanted her son to play?
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