You learn something new every NBA game.
On Saturday night, I learned that Dwight Howard spits on the ball.
Every time a Warriors player went to the line to shoot two, after the first free-throw try, the Orlando Magic's massive center asked the ref for the ball, spit on it and flipped it back to the ref. Seriously.
"I'm just blowing on it," Howard fibbed with a smile when I asked him about it after the game. "I'm putting a spell on them."
The Warriors should have had coach Don Nelson spit on the ball when Howard went to the line. Nelson has pneumonia germs the size of house cats, but Typhoid Nellie started feeling better and better as his shorthanded Warriors hung with the mighty Magic before losing 126-118.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/12/07/SPD81B01N6.DTL#ixzz0Z1iYQRMy
On Saturday night, I learned that Dwight Howard spits on the ball.
Every time a Warriors player went to the line to shoot two, after the first free-throw try, the Orlando Magic's massive center asked the ref for the ball, spit on it and flipped it back to the ref. Seriously.
"I'm just blowing on it," Howard fibbed with a smile when I asked him about it after the game. "I'm putting a spell on them."
The Warriors should have had coach Don Nelson spit on the ball when Howard went to the line. Nelson has pneumonia germs the size of house cats, but Typhoid Nellie started feeling better and better as his shorthanded Warriors hung with the mighty Magic before losing 126-118.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/12/07/SPD81B01N6.DTL#ixzz0Z1iYQRMy