NBA's Dwight Howard wins--thanks God and Twitter fans

You have called your coach out. You have dreamed that you would win. Then you go and beat the Boston Celtics in their own haughty arena in Sunday's Game 7 of the playoffs, a win that means you will now face off with LeBron James.

You are Dwight Howard of the Orlando Magic, so whom do you thank?

Traditionally, a player might thank his family, his coach, his teammates, his very special conditioning coach. But, as if to prove just how much the world has changed, Dwight Howard went in a different direction.

Oh, he thanked God. As many athletes do these days, because they want everyone to know that deity was on their side and, not, quite clearly, on the opponent's.

Could this be one of Dwight's Twitter fans?

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But just as TNT interviewer David Aldridge was being told to wrap Howard up, the Supermanish center insisted he needed to mention some other celestial beings. Yes, his Twitter fans.

His Twitter fans, I tell you.

Howard isn't remotely in Shaq territory when it comes to Twitter. Shaquille O'Neal, who now has reached the celebrity nirvana of 1 million followers, predicted an Orlando win.

However, Howard knows the power of heavenly marketing. He insisted on thanking each of his 61,463 Twitter followers.

I am not sure what he was thanking them for.

But I know that somewhere in some corner of Twitter Central, someone is saying: "Now how much do you think this thing's worth?"

[faceless128]

lol

[jimbob394]

he didn't thank them, he gave a shout out to them. two totally different things

[Police_States_of_America]

"Oh, he thanked God. As many athletes do these days, because they want everyone to know that deity was on their side and, not, quite clearly, on the opponent's."

ok, i lol'd

[Maxfli82]

I don't have a problem praying for a sports outcome, if it happens the way I pray, I thank God for it. If it does not, I thank God for it. I know that He has to pick a side and let one side win, but it's not exactly life and death situation if my team does not win you know. More often than not, the win is part of a higher purpose. I have noticed a trend where irregardless of my prayers, God often rewards teams that are not proud or haughty. Seems he likes humble underdogs as well.

[karpenterskids]

I agree with Maxfli82.

And besides...you have to realize...there are people on both teams praying for God to give them the win. ;)
So even if God played favorites with something as trivial as a sports game, someone's going to end up on the losing side. lol

[guapodcole]

this article is pretty irrelavent. he mentions his Twitter all the time. he was on Twitter when he was suspended for Game 6 of the first round (which would have made for a better story than this). did you just post this to reach your 20,000 word quota? good to see you were watching the playoffs though