Dwight Howard: I was like, ‘I’m tired of the going back and forth on the internet or text message. I want to see him in person.’ Like, this back-and-forth has got to stop—whatever it is. So, when I got inducted into the Magic Hall of Fame, I saw him in—where were we at—Orlando, at this restaurant. I was like, ‘Man, I’m going to go over there and talk to him.’ This was just a couple of months ago. Very recent. So I walked up and said, ‘Hey, Shaq, what’s going on?’ He said, ‘What’s up, dawg? We gotta sit down. Let’s talk.’ I said, ‘Let’s go.’ We sat down—about thirty minutes. Cleared some things up. He apologized—he said if I ever felt like he was hating or anything like that, that’s not who he is. He wasn’t trying to hate—he was trying to motivate me. And I told him, ‘If that’s what it was, I think the best way to do it would’ve been to come talk to me behind closed doors instead of saying things publicly. Now you’ve given other people an opportunity to chime in. And now you’ve got people on the outside messing up a relationship they don’t even know about. We could’ve had this squashed a long time ago. But let’s do it now. Let’s get this out.’ But it took—if this was a couple of months ago—it took twenty years to have this conversation. I had to stop playing. I couldn’t do it anymore.”
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