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Scott Questions Dwight Howard’s Drive to Win
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Kobe Bryant and Dwight Howard clashed during their one-season stint as Los Angeles Lakers teammates in 2012-13. And Byron Scott believes he knows why.
“My outside perspective is Kobe is a real serious guy and wants to win championships,” Scott, the Lakers’ first-year head coach, said after his team’s practice at their facility Monday. “I don’t know if Dwight is that serious about it. I know No. 24 is. I think that probably was the clash.”
Scott highlighted the main talking point used when dissecting why Bryant and Howard didn’t mesh — Bryant is known as demanding, Howard as more playful.
