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So who nicknamed Dwight Howard Superman?

Posted on 5/16/10 at 3:54 pm
Posted by LSUMafia
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Posted on 5/16/10 at 3:54 pm
I don't know what it is about him and that persona, but it seems quite egotistical and basically ripping off of Shaq.

Anyone else get that feeling?
Posted by ohiosportfan777
Valdosta, GA
Member since Dec 2007
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Posted on 5/16/10 at 3:56 pm to
Who nicknamed Shaq superman?

And anyone that nicknames themselves Superman is ripping it off the original.
This post was edited on 5/16/10 at 3:57 pm
Posted by hg
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Posted on 5/16/10 at 4:00 pm to
What did Howard do?
Posted by iwyLSUiwy
I'm your huckleberry
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Posted on 5/16/10 at 4:02 pm to
Shaq has had tem million nicknames. Who cares.
Posted by Colonel Flagg
Baton Rouge
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Posted on 5/16/10 at 4:03 pm to
I think it is weird Orlando would market him that way when he isn't close to as good as Shaq was in Orlando.
Posted by LSUMafia
Member since May 2005
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Posted on 5/16/10 at 4:03 pm to
It's just the Superman crap. He's been doing these skits as Clark Kent and Superman. They are never funny and mostly just egotistical crap.

Kid is a great athlete, but has no personality IMO. He's not like Magic, Barkley, Shaq, etc.

It always just seems forced and uncreative.
Posted by hg
Member since Jun 2009
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Posted on 5/16/10 at 4:08 pm to
Yea oh look at me dance before the game and throw up half court shots.
Posted by LSUMafia
Member since May 2005
9862 posts
Posted on 5/16/10 at 4:18 pm to
huh?
Posted by F machine
Member since Jun 2009
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Posted on 5/16/10 at 4:19 pm to
quote:

Kid is a great athlete, but has no personality IMO. He's not like Magic, Barkley, Shaq, etc.



What personality does Magic have? Everytime I see him on tv it seems like he's retarded and about to shite himself.
Posted by Things and stuff
Baton Rouge
Member since Feb 2010
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Posted on 5/16/10 at 4:21 pm to
The whole point of the NBA is to sell things. Even if some of the elite players are only 1% better than the scrubs, they need to market them, get them the most shots, etc so that all the millions of kids will buy their jerseys.

Having said that.. Howard is a pretty impressive athlete, given his size.
Posted by LSUMafia
Member since May 2005
9862 posts
Posted on 5/16/10 at 4:27 pm to
I mean more when Magic was a player rather than now. As a player he had charisma. I just don't see it with Howard.
Posted by F machine
Member since Jun 2009
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Posted on 5/16/10 at 4:29 pm to
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I mean more when Magic was a player rather than now. As a player he had charisma. I just don't see it with Howard.



I guess. I personally like Howard. He's a good player and he doesn't need to flaunt it and act like an arse like many of his peers.
Posted by Michael J Cocks
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Posted on 5/16/10 at 4:30 pm to
anyone that thinks D-Howard isn't jocking Shaq in a shite ton of ways is fooling themselves.
Posted by xenythx
Member since Dec 2007
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Posted on 5/16/10 at 4:31 pm to
quote:

I guess. I personally like Howard. He's a good player and he doesn't need to flaunt it and act like an arse like many of his peers.


I like Howard as a player and he seems to be a great human being. But ESPN needs to stop encouraging him to be a giant nerd on national TV.
Posted by beardedzeus
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Member since Mar 2006
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Posted on 5/16/10 at 7:15 pm to
quote:

I think it is weird Orlando would market him that way when he isn't close to as good as Shaq was in Orlando.


I agree. It isn't even close. In Shaq's 2nd season in the league he had more low post moves than Howard has now.
Posted by Hullabaloo
LA
Member since Sep 2009
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Posted on 5/16/10 at 7:21 pm to
Pretty sure he got the nickname for always doing the soulja boy- superman dat hoe dance, and it became mainstream the night of the slam dunk contest that he "flew"
Posted by iwyLSUiwy
I'm your huckleberry
Member since Apr 2008
42209 posts
Posted on 5/16/10 at 8:08 pm to
quote:

It's just the Superman crap. He's been doing these skits as Clark Kent and Superman. They are never funny and mostly just egotistical crap.


I'm sorry but the ESPN superman commercial with him and Hannah Storm was hilarious. One of the better sportcenter commercials.

quote:

Kid is a great athlete, but has no personality IMO. He's not like Magic, Barkley, Shaq, etc


Swap Howard and Magic and I'm cool with that statement.
Posted by fightingtiger2335
heh?
Member since Aug 2007
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Posted on 5/16/10 at 8:11 pm to
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he night of the slam dunk contest that he "flew"



LINK
Posted by Maximus
Member since Feb 2004
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Posted on 5/16/10 at 8:12 pm to
quote:

What personality does Magic have?


why were they called the showtime lakers? shite

You'd be more reserved too if you had dem AIDS
Posted by iwyLSUiwy
I'm your huckleberry
Member since Apr 2008
42209 posts
Posted on 5/16/10 at 8:17 pm to
On the court he'd put on a show. No doubt.
But off, naw. I don't think anybody wants to bring that talk show back.
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