By Pierre-Andréa Fraile | Sports journalist
Like other stars of his era, Dwight Howard didn’t go through college before joining the NBA. Just 18 years old when he arrived in the league, he quickly found himself in a strip club, where he had a significant experience.
Before the one-and-done rule was imposed in the NBA, many top high school prospects entered the draft directly. Dwight Howard is one of them, who entered the league well before his 19th birthday. However, he admits today in his podcast Above The Rim that this precocity was accompanied by significant negative aspects:
Dwight Howard : It was hard because I was 18 and all my teammates were adults. They were doing things that I wasn’t even allowed to do. (…) At the time, they were telling me to get as many women as possible. So, at 18, I looked at them and thought it was cool and I told myself that this was the end goal. To have the best cars, the most beautiful women and to sleep with them.
Dwight Howard’s Strip Club Misadventure
Inevitably impressionable given his young age as a rookie, Howard was unfortunately asked to follow a bad example. This cost him (very) dearly from the start:
Dwight Howard : I remember right after I got drafted I was in Vegas for Summer League and my whole team was coming out.
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My teammates were like, “Hey kid, we’re going to the strip club.” I had never been to a strip club in my life. I was like a kid in a candy store! I was 18 years old, I was taken to the strip club and this stripper robbed me of all my money. She saw right away that my eyes were sparkling and she knew she could have me. I, like in the T-Pain song, had fallen in love with her.
Amazed in this brand new environment, which was most dazzling in his eyes, D12 squandered a good part of his first NBA salary there. This, before even having been able to set foot on a Summer League court. Now much less carefree and aware of the innocent mistake he made, the former pivot hopes to be able to inspire the younger generation to be more thoughtful than him:
Dwight Howard : I’m sure that all of that would make me a great veteran in the league today because I’ve been there. I know that all those frivolous things that you dream about at that time don’t last. All it causes is an addiction and a will to conquer everything. I couldn’t have known that at the time because I was so young and I had no guide.
Barely arrived in the league, Dwight Howard let himself be drawn into the expensive madness of Las Vegas nights. But if he made a stripper happy that night, the legendary big man advises his young successors not to follow in his footsteps.
2024-07-04 20:30:00
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