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ESPN analyst: NBA players view Dwight Howard as 'a clown'

With his future in Houston reportedly up in the air, center Dwight Howard has become a popular topic of conversation in the media.

That includes late-night TV.

ESPN personalities Tony Kornheiser and Michael Wilbon, hosts of the popular afternoon yakfest "PTI," were guests on Thursday's episode of "Jimmy Kimmel Live" on ABC. The host, an admitted Lakers fan who said he felt burned by Howard's time in Los Angeles, asked if Howard was a cancer.

"True," Kornheiser said. "Wherever he leaves, if he's there for any amount of time, there's discourse. And then he leaves, and then he's left the teams, it seems to me, in a worse spot than when he got there.