Here at 3MW, we try to be diplomatic most of the time. We try to be impartial. We try to not let our individual feelings and biases enter the conversation. But sometimes things annoy us and we have to vent.

So…

We’ve decided to create a series of short pieces dedicated to whatever our current distain is… named ‘We talkin’ bout’, thanks to one of our favourite pieces of NBA history.

At the moment, we are a little sick of all the Dwight Howard talk. This guy:

At the moment, thanks to our friends in the US media we are reading far too much about Dwight Howard. Where he wants to go, where he doesn’t, is he happy, is he not, who wants to play with him, who he wants as team-mates, what teams are going to have to give up to get him and so on and so forth.

Honestly, we’ve heard enough. At a time when there are more elite point guards than we’ve ever had in the NBA (see Derrick Rose, John Wall, Deron Williams, Chris Paul & others), Kevin Durant is torching the entire league with class and giving us the most amazing offensive display for a 23 year old basketball player since a young Michael Jordan. Kobe Bryant is averaging 32 points a game at age 33, Steve Nash looks like an All Star at 38 years old, Lebron James, Ricky Rubio, the Knicks are relevant again and Chris Paul & Blake Griffin have already given us more than our fair share of alley-oops. We talkin’ bout Dwight Howard? Really?

He’s huge, he’s athletic, he’s physically overpowering the other 449 players in the NBA and averages 20 points, 15 boards & 2.5 blocks a game… but seriously? In todays game, with the competition Dwight faces each night, he is ridiculously underachieving. He has no go-to move, he never seems as though he takes the game seriously, he’s openly bagged his own team (who are paying him a cool $18M this season) and he’s going into his 8th season barely more talented and mature than when he entered the NBA. Yet he’s filling the headlines and we’ve heard enough. We talkin’ bout Dwight Howard? Please…

True that, Pat!

Dwight is a talented basketball player and possibly the best centre in the NBA, but in the current game is that really saying much? Would you put a current Dwight Howard over a prime Pat Ewing? Shaq O’Neal? Hakeem Olaguwon? David Robinson? Bill Russell? Wilt Chamberlain? Bill Walton? Kareem? Hell no… not in the same class, not even the same school.

Funnily enough, it was the below image of Kareem that made us say, ‘Hot Damn! Kareem was really amazing… we talkin’ bout Dwight Howard?’