Dwight Howard Trade Rumors: Why D12's Declaration Is a Farce

Dwight Howard changed his mind. This is earth-shattering, stop-the-presses, gotta-print-it-now news, right? Actually, if he said the same thing two days in a row, that might be news. The latest revelation doesn't need to be taken with a grain of salt, it needs to be taken with the Salt Lake Flats.

Brian Smitz of the Orlando Sentinel tweets:

Don't ignore the "take it for what it's worth" portion of the tweet. What it's worth is little to nothing, if that much. 

Howard changes his mind more than the average male changes his underwear. He had three teams on the list. Then he had the Clippers on the list. Then he didn't have the Clippers on the list. Then he was willing to go to Chicago if God wanted him to. Then he wasn't. Then he had two teams on the list. 

Now he wants to stay. 

If anything is clear at this point, it's this: Dwight Howard has no clue what he wants. His most recent declarations aren't a farce because he's lying. They are a farce because he's not telling the truth. 

While that might seem like nonsense, it's actually two very different statements. To lie is to deliberately say something misleading or false. To not tell the truth could mean you are unknowingly saying something untrue.

Howard has no idea what he wants, so that's why he's not telling the truth.

I can't help but wonder how much Howard is hurting his trade value by this nonsensical roller-coaster ride. He's been unstable through all of this, and that's putting it about as kindly as possible. A more accurate way of describing it might be to say that he's behaving like an eighth grade girl who has a crush on five different boys and can't figure out which one to date. 

When you're paying a player max contract money, you want a leader, and he's been anything but a leader. If I'm a GM of an NBA team, I'm seriously questioning whether he's worth the effort at this point.