Just My Type

The Interview
Dwight Howard
MAGIC CENTER

Howard will start in the NBA All-Star Game on Feb. 17 and will compete in the Slam Dunk Contest the night before.

Dan Patrick : Do you keep a running total of guys who have dunked on you?

Dwight Howard : I do. I'm at five right now.

DP: O.K., run down the list.

DH: Kobe Bryant . He got me the worst. Then it would be Chris Paul . Then Pau Gasol , Lamar Odom and Shareef Abdur-Rahim .

DP: Out of all those, which one bothered you the most?

DH: The Kobe one did. Because it was Kobe Bryant , and because I thought I'd never get dunked on in my whole NBA career.

DP: Yeah, but Kobe's posterized a lot of guys, Dwight. I would think that Chris Paul might bother you a little bit more.

DH: The thing with Kobe was, after he did that dunk, they had it on TV and they had somebody freeze-frame the picture ...