Ex-NBA center Dwight Howard has had one of the most unique careers in sports history. He is a three-time NBA Defensive Player of the Year and eight-time All-NBA pick, who won five rebounding titles and two shot blocking titles, went to eight all-star games and won an NBA championship with the Lakers in 2020.

Yet for some reason Howard is underrated as a star of his caliber.

The disrespect has spilled over into his pockets, where Howard took a beating after entrusting his fortune to ex-cop Charles Briscoe, who worked with Calvin Darden, Jr., according to court documents. to defraud Howard of money that Howard wanted to invest in a WNBA team.

According to Lakers president Jeanie Buss, Howard not only missed out on millions in revenue to his crooked agent, but he also missed his Lakers encore after the team’s championship run.

“I was sad, I wanted to come back and I didn’t know what happened,” an anguished Howard said Monday during a conversation with Buss on Above The Rim with DH 12.

Buss interjected: “You accepted an offer from the Philadelphia 76ers.”

“No, look, I think we’ve just been told so many different things,” Howard countered. “And I think now I look back on it with the situation I had with my officer and him actually being convicted and being part of the whole crime. I don’t even know what the truth was. For I was told that you had no offer for me.’

As Buss responded sharply, Howard learned that he had been duped by his infamous agent again.

‘That’s not true. We have made an offer. We did that,” Bus said before clarifying. “…It’s all about the salary cap and the timing. Because you have to get accepted offers if you have the space.”