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Fair or not, Dwight Howard is NBA's punching bag

How many times does a person have to show you who they really are until you believe them?

That's the rhetorical question Dwight Howard seemed to wrestle with as a guest panelist on Tuesday night's "Inside the NBA" show.

Charles Barkley — yes, he of the no-holds-barred line of questioning — asked Howard why the 6-11, 265-pound big man thinks that the public no longer likes him, causing Howard to do some soul-searching on live TV.

"I think I was very likable in Orlando, and the way that situation ended, I think people thought as though I'm just the bad guy," Howard ruminated.