NBA – Dwight Howard cashes in on the horrible scam he was the victim of: “I was robbed of 8 million!”

Par Guillaume Kagni | Journaliste sportif

Over the course of his long and glorious career, Dwight Howard has earned nearly $250 million on his salaries alone. Add to that his partnership with Adidas, and Superman must have a pretty penny in the bank. That’s not to say he hasn’t felt that $8 million rip-off in 2020.

This summer, Dwight Howard will receive the ultimate accolade of his career. Champion with the Lakers in his final years in the league, Superman will finally be rewarded for what he did with the Magic in the late 2000s and early 2000s. Like all the greats of the wonderful sport of basketball, he will be inducted into the Hall of Fame.

Younger NBA fans will thus have the opportunity to discover who the pivot was in his younger days, when his extraordinary athletic qualities enabled him to crush the Eastern Conference. You don’t win three consecutive DPOY titles by chance, and above all, you don’t take LeBron James out in the conference finals without being a huge superstar.

Dwight Howard’s $8 million scam

And this induction will also be a nice revenge on his detractors and those who took advantage of his kindness. Appearing on “The Lou Young Show” not long ago, Dwight Howard spoke out about a betrayal that cost him $8 million. His own agent misled him to buy houses and cars.

My biggest career loss is $8 million. Millions that could have been used right now. I was so angry… I was robbed. In 2019, I started talking to my agent about buying a WNBA franchise. I was going to every Atlanta game, my mom was a season ticket holder, I wanted to buy the team. I wanted to put the spotlight on women players and women. The discussions began and the owner told me he only wanted to sell to me.

But the NBA explained that I couldn’t buy a franchise in my name because I was still an active player in the league. So I asked my agent to find an investment group that could manage the thing until I finished my career. That was the goal. I put the money together, sent it to this group, and as soon as they got the 8 million, they disappeared. It was as quick as a breeze.

With this money, they bought themselves houses, big cars, jewelry. I realized this when the sale of the franchise to another group was announced. I wanted to catch them all up and explain myself. The case has just gone to trial. The culprit only got 12 years in prison and my agent is on parole. The problem is that the state will get the money back before I do.