Attention, Dwight Howard: Do the Chicago Bulls Want Someone as Stupid as You?

"I have an issue with Dwight Howard. He sounds like an idiot. He sounds like a loser. Great player, no doubt.  He went for 28 and 15 against the floss formerly known as Joakim Noah last week. But do you want the Howard who’s apparently too stupid to want to come to the Bulls? That’s the Howard we’re seeing now. The idiot Howard," says Steve Rosenbloom of the Chicago Tribune.

Dwight Howard seems to be a sensitive fellow who can’t deal with the questions of the hospitable local media in Orlando about his impending free agency. Rosenbloom is writing for a newspaper in Chicago, and a team that doesn’t have any real need to acquire Howard. Imagine what will happen if Dwight gets traded to an even larger market than Chicago, say Los Angeles or New York.

Dwight seems miffed if the reporters in Orlando ask him anything outside of, "How did practice go today?” How will he deal with the New York reporters who will blame him because the New Brooklyn Nets are sub-.500 again?

They won’t be as nice as the laid-back Orlando Sentinel reporters who back down from questions he doesn't feel comfortable with. He will be a scapegoat if he doesn’t deliver them a championship and will be scrutinized like LeBron every time he bangs a free throw off the back of the rim or is pulled from the game in crucial free-throw situations.

Rosenbloom continues on his tirade, “Tell you what, wanting to go to a bigger market is a worse athletic crime than LeBron James’ wanting to play in Miami with Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh. James got ripped by some for teaming up in someone else’s city instead of trying to be “the Man’’ in winning a title in Cleveland. Have you ever heard such stupidity? Like there are degrees of title-winning. Ask Karl Malone about degrees of title-winning. Being “The Man’’ doesn’t matter. Being a champion does. At least James went to a place where he believed he had a chance to win multiple titles.”

Questions have arisen about what Dwight really wants. He says he wants to win, and he’s doing that in Orlando. If it’s a big market that he wants, then he will have to deal with this type of treatment on a daily basis. In Orlando he is a hero and can do no wrong. He can play basketball at Rollins College in the offseason without any media scrutiny.

On October 21, 2011, on the front of the New York Post, the deceased face of former dictator Moammar Khadafy was displayed next to a New York Yankee fan. The title read, “Khadafy Killed by Yankee Fan: Gunman had more hits than A-Rod.”  The Orlando Sentinel writes article like, “Please Stay Dwight.”

Dwight needs to be careful what he wishes for. If a Chicago writer is this scorned about you not being interested in coming to the Bulls, how will it be when you step into the Lion's den in New York? If you get your wish, you better develop some thick skin, and fast.