The NBA has only entered the 2021-22 season for just a week, but there is no shortage of dramatic events in the league. Alphabet Brother and Milwaukee Bucks took their championship rings and beat Kevin Durant and the Brooklyn Nets. Ben Simmons returned to the Philadelphia 76ers for training and was then kicked out of the team before engaging in a confrontational but healthy meeting with Joel Embiid and Doc Rivers. In the Los Angeles Lakers' game against the Phoenix Suns, the fierce clash between Anthony Davis and Dwight Howard was the most notable.
As the team entered the timeout, Davis aggressively approached Howard. Davis clearly wanted to discuss with Howard the things that had upset him in recent games. Howard, on the other hand, has been frustrated by a poor pass from Rondo, the team not receiving a penalty from the referee, and the Suns' multiple defensive possessions and easy scoring.
Davis seemed to grab Howard, who was sitting, and howard stood up. The two men began to push and shove each other, arguing fiercely about what upset the two of them.
Anthony Davis and Dwight Howard were at an impasse and had to be their Lakers teammates.
Dwight Howard gave a media interview after the game and dispelled any concerns about his Lakers teammates
"We squashed it on the spot," Howard explained. "We just had disagreements about something on the floor. Damn, we all want to win. We didn't want to lose this game, so we were all passionate. We got it out. We are all adults, and things are uncertain. We've talked about it, it's settled, and there's no problem between me and him.
Dwight Howard: "That's my brother, that's my teammate. That's what I told him. I will always be by your side, no matter what happens. I will always fight for you and do everything I can to help the team win, and he said the same thing. We were fine. There is no need to turn it into something else. ”
"We won on the spot... We are all passionate about winning. "This is my brother. This is my teammate. ”
Apparently, due to the personality of the characters and the visuals of the external perspective, it became a potentially big thing at the time. Although not very close, some have compared the bitter altercation between Drummond Green and Kevin Durant years ago, which many believe eventually led durant to leaving the Golden State Warriors. It's not that it would lead to the departure of both players, but it's an obvious scenario, otherwise the team's performance is terrible.
Kevin Durant and Draymond Green didn't shoot a single goal at the end of the regular season in the Warriors' loss to the Clippers, and the two sides got into a heated argument.
Los Angeles Clippers head coach Tyrone Lue didn't care too much about that. Lou and Michael Jordan played for the Washington Wizards and Kobe Bryant for the Lakers. He coached LeBron James, Carey Owen and Kevin Love at the Cleveland Cavaliers, and then Cowy Leonard and Paul George at the Clippers. Tyronn Lue has to deal with his personality issues, but he says it's not uncommon to see such exchanges between teammates, whether they've been playing together for years or still struggling to build relationships with each other.
Tyrone Lu explained that when asked how often something like this happens on an NBA team: "I don't know [them], so I don't want to talk about them, but I mean, any time you're competing, you always want to win, so that's not a bad thing, it's not that they're not close or good friends." Sometimes at the height of the fighting, anything can happen. In my 23-24 year NBA career, this is a common occurrence. So most of the time you don't want it to happen in public, but it happens and you move on. So it's no big deal. ”
Although Tyrone Lew has never been officially confirmed, reports of the Cleveland Cavaliers' 2016 NBA title race have been numerous, including a trade between Tyrone Lou and LeBron James at game 7 halftime, where Lou told James he needed to do more than he had already done.
Things have also happened to the former Markiv Morris and Archie Goodwin. Chris Paul and James Harden also happened. Therefore, it is not uncommon for teammates to clash.
These incidents between Anthony Davis and Dwight Howard took place in the NBA, NFL, and any other competitive sports team. Although Lakers legendary Magic Johnson tries to claim that he's never seen anything like this happen, if you've played team sports before, you'll know it's true.