When Dwight Howard obfuscated from the story about him getting in trouble with the NBA for not wearing a mask by saying that people should instead focus on the fact that Breonna Taylor’s killers still haven’t been brought to justice, it was a little easier to ignore the somewhat self-serving context of his timing for delivering that message because of how important the message itself is.
But even during a to-this-point fun season in which Howard has mostly seemed to redeem himself in the eyes the Lakers, their fans and the NBA world as a whole and do just about everything right, there are some things we can’t defend.