He did that in a conference call today.

Here, he said, Quote.

My job is to come here and help this team win.

It's not to get any into any arguments with Shaq or Kobe or anyone.

I don't plan on to letting anything distract me from helping this team win a championship.

Now I do want to say I believe that someone on the conference call asked him a question.

Okay, here's the thing you is when you see these quotes.

I like it when as a reporter, I like it when guys answer our questions, so I can never have never bash anyone for shouldn't been talking about that.

He was, I believe, answering a question about the recent check Kobe hullabaloo.

Let's call it that went back and forth, and his point was, I'm not getting involved, which is, of course, not.

Getting involved in the back and forth with Kobe is a very different approach.

Malika from his first it as a Laker.

Do you think this experiment's gonna work?

Look, I mean, I think that was it an interesting statement to make.

I'm so glad to hear that he's not planning to get into any of those arguments.

That being said, I mean, Onley time is going to tell, right?

And the Lakers have not had good luck with their big men.

Contingency plans, right?

They had to Marcus Cousins that clearly didn't go the way that they thought it was going to.

And the thing is what Dwight Howard is going to show up in Los Angeles, right?

Is it the mature and introspective Dwight Howard, who has spent time kind of trying to fix his body and take some time away?

Or is it going to be that kind of drama filled circle that he's kind of had orbiting around him?

Coming into this locker room that already has the potential?

Teoh, you know, be a little bit spontaneously combustible, And so that's really the question for him, I think.

Will those issues leak into the Lakers because they don't have the culture yet?

They haven't established that to kind of let to be able to deal with some of the things that Dwight Howard has had following him in his career, So I'm a little bit skeptical It just cracks me up that Shaq and Kobe don't always get along on much, but they boast, dislike Dwight.

They just they don't want to deal with any of this nonsense.

But truly, what is the best case scenario for Dwight Howard?

This is the problem that so many embassy fans have in the moment.

You get caught up on the name.

Oh, Dwight Howard.

This is not Dwight, who was 24 years old in Orlando, dominating everybody.

This is Dwight Howard, who's gonna be 34 who looks old from a basketball sense who hasn't given much of anything the last couple seasons so people would get so caught up on.

Oh, it's Dwight Howard.

This isn't the same guy.

He's going to the Hall of Famer rates.

That that made me said Dwight Howard, who's going to the Hall of Fame is on a conference call.

It's just shows how far he has fallen in the greater depths of the MBA because almost any other future Hall of Famer gets his own press conference.

Here's the jersey the Lakers are like.

Here we go again.

Let's just do this conference call and get through it.

I mean, look, we'll see if he's on the team, right?

Not not only after training camp, but a couple months.

And then we'll just have to see are producing staff like the fact that he's gonna wear 39.

So, you know, look for number 39 in your programs, that would be a hot seller.

39.

That expression is I was straight the best because I do think continuing to come back and try when things haven't as you point out be going well the past few years.

Ah, lot of people would have said Great.

I'm taking my many millions of dollars in going home.

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