While watching the Dallas/San Antonio half-time show, TNT showed a play that happened earlier in the night, during Orlando's win over Philadelphia. Dwight Howard was bumping in the paint with Samuel Dalembert and appeared to throw a right cross with his elbow as he brought it down. Upon further review, yep, it was a cheap shot and 2 things immediately came to my mind:
- Dwight Howard is some kind of cheap shot prodigy. Nobody saw the elbow. He wasn't thrown out of the game and none of Dalembert's teammates saw it. Even Dalembert looked like he didn't know what happened.
- Dwight Howard will not be playing in the next Orlando game and I wouldn't be surprised if he was suspended for 2 games.
The worst part? Here's ESPN's take:
Howard and Sixers center Samuel Dalembert got tangled up going for a rebound in the first quarter, and Howard was called for a technical foul on the play.Watch the play. It was clearly a dirty shot. Imagine if that was Ron Artest.
-PSon
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Biased bs. You have no idea what you're talking about. Dwight regularly gets screwed over by the refs. A slight elbow to the head does not make up for how physically other players are allowed to play him.
Yeah you're right. I'm letting my intense love for Philly get in the way of an objective opinion.
Look, I have no problem with Dwight Howard, I actually like the guy, he's good for the NBA. I also want Orlando to win this series because it will make things tougher on Boston and Cleveland.
Charles Barkley also thought it was a punch (with his elbow) and that he should be suspended, and we all know that Dwight Howard is in Barkley's Fave Five.
The Dwight Kool-Aid is strong I see.
-PSon
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