Mike D’Antoni On Dwight Howard Leaving Lakers: ‘It Didn’t Work Out’

Ryan Cole
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With the Los Angeles Lakers facing the Houston Rockets for the first time this season on Friday, a lot of attention has been be surrounded around Dwight Howard and the fallout between he and the Lakers in the 2012-2013 season.

After Dwight publicly addressed the situation earlier this week, claiming that it’s time for everyone to move on, Lakers head coach Mike D’Antoni echoed some of those same sentiments after Lakers practice today via Mark Medina of L.A. Daily News:

For D’Antoni, he also believed that he adjusted his system to cater to Dwight. All in all, Dwight still found a reason to leave despite his efforts, and oddly enough, D’Antoni thinks that a lot of the things that Houston is doing to integrate Dwight are some the same things the Lakers did via Medina:

This would ultimately suggest that the issues with Dwight were beyond the x’s and o’s, and that it was simply best that he and the Lakers part ways for the greater good of both sides.

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Ryan Cole is a student at the University of Southern California (USC) majoring in Broadcast Journalism and minoring in Sports Media Studies. His past experiences include interning for ESPN and Fox Sports. He is huge sports fan that loves to talk all kinds of sports. You can follow him on twitter here: @JustRyCole
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