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Message: [QUOTE="OrangeDW, post: 2395384, member: 2458"] Makes you wonder if Howard was actually a genuine kid who got caught up in the NBA lifestyle(which must be incredibly easy to do, especially for a teenager/early 20s guy) or if that was all marketing due to the NBA’s so called “thuggish” image at the time. That was the Iverson(OMG! Tats and cornrows and baggy pants!) era, the Ron Artest in the stands, David Stern putting in a dress code, etc. Were they trying to push Howard as a squeaky clean choir boy just to counteract that and it wasn’t really him? Little of both? [/QUOTE]