Dwight Howard, Not LeBron James, Is NBA's Biggest Villain

Dwight Howard has made "The Decision" of LeBron James look as if he was choosing between french fries or onion rings rather than altering the course of two NBA franchises.

Name one player currently in the NBA who has become more of a cancer to his team than the reigning Defensive Player of the Year?

Go ahead, I'll wait. You can't find one.

Ever since James decided to take his "talents to South Beach," he has been painted as the ultimate villain of the NBA.

It's time to pass the torch.

Just look at the timeline of Howard during this season. It seemed every week there was a new rumor involving the Magic making a move. 

Howard wants out. Howard wants to stay. Howard will be moved before the deadline. Ownership wants to keep him. Ownership plans to trade him away anyway. Howard signs his ETO (in pencil?) to stay for a grand total of one more year.

Where was LeBron during all of this? On pace to set the all-time record for player-efficiency as well as showing off his new post move.

You know, the kind of things you achieve by working hard in an offseason, not planning your (failed) move to Brooklyn.

In an effort to convince Dwight to stay, Magic ownership is rumored to have given him the option to "decide the fate" of head coach Stan Van Gundy as well as general manager Otis Smith if he stayed with the franchise.

LeBron sure does seem to love playing for coach Erik Spoelstra and GM Pat Riley.

Rumors of the option for Howard to axe Van Gundy have become even more intense thanks to Stan himself who claims they aren't rumors at all.

Reported by an Orlando local news station and then picked up by several other media outlets, Van Gundy "knows" that Howard has tried to get him sent out of town. 

When Howard was questioned, his response was "why would I want Stan fired with 12 games to go?" Obviously, Dwight was unaware of the source of this information.

LeBron never attempted to get a coach fired.

"The Decision" made the Boys and Girls Club millions of dollars. "Indecision 2012" hosted by Howard has only caused millions of headaches.

Why does everyone paint LeBron as such a bad person?

What would you rather have? An athlete who (with questionable methods granted) announced he would leave a team who had the first and fourth overall picks in the upcoming draft? Or a guy who everyone is aware will bolt for a new team next year, but plans to destroy the structure of the franchise in the process?

I'll pick LeBron and his need to be loved by everyone over Howard and his choice to worry only about himself any day of the week.

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