Dwight Howard and Jared Dudley joined the Los Angeles Lakers via free agency in 2019. This is the first time these two have teamed up in their careers, and Dudley already has a lot of crazy stories about Dwight! In just one year of playing together, the 35-year-old deems Howard as the Lakers’ Dennis Rodman, owing to his crazy obsessions! 

Dwight Howard has been in the league since 2004, and one can’t deny that he’s a terrific entertainer. On the court, he’s brilliant, and he always appears to be a joyous personality outside basketball as well!

For starters, Dwight Howard has a crazy snake obsession. The 34-year-old has a lot of them at his home with extraordinary facilities. One can figure out his love for reptiles by watching how calmly Dwight Howard handled a huge snake in front of Lakers teammate Danny Green and B/R’s Taylor Rooks. 

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For some, it might not come as a surprise that Howard is an avid snake lover. But it came out as a shock to Jared Dudley! Howard casually informed Dudley about his love for snakes when they were on the road to the play the Atlanta Hawks. 

Howard invited Dudley to his crib when they were in Atlanta: “He’s like ‘I want to show you my snake collection.’ I’m like ‘What?!’ He had a tattoo of his snakes,” Dudley said. “I’m like, how many snakes you have? ‘I have 24 snakes,’” Howard replied. “Why the hell do you have 24 snakes?”

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Several people tremble by just seeing a single snake, but not Howard. The 6’10” forward considers them to be his babies, and he takes utmost care of them. But Dudley isn’t the same. He represents a large share of people who are quite averted to reptiles, and that’s why he was shocked to know further details about Howard’s snakes. 

“He’s like ‘yeah there’s this one snake I really don’t take out because it takes you like three-four hours to get the snake back in in it’s cage’. Three-four hours? How big is a snake? So that was one thing about Dwight when it comes to snakes it was just was different,” Dudley told on ‘The Bill Simmons Podcast.’

Dudley certifies Howard as the modern era Dennis rodman 

A lot of us know about Dennis Rodman now, even if we didn’t in the past, ‘The Last Dance’ certainly revitalized our memories. Rodman stood out on the court as the top rebounder and was always an enigmatic personality. 

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Jared Dudley thinks Dwight Howard is Lakers’ Rodman. The 35-year-old then narrated a story that matches the criteria! When the Lakers went to San Antonio to play the Spurs, Dwight Howard called up Dudley the day before and mentioned that he wanted to go to ‘Six Flags’ which is an amusement park. 

Dudley mentioned how Howard invited him “jump off” a cliff to experience the thrill, but he politely refused. “He always wanted the thrill of jumping out doing a roller coaster that he jumps 30 feet in the air. He’s just he’s our Rodman. He’s a little bit different and we love him,” Dudley added. 

It is great to see the brotherhood in the Lakers team. They added several free-agents in 2019 and all of them have played a vital role in their success. However, Jared Dudley and Dwight Howard’s future hangs in the air as they only signed a one-year contract with the team. Will the Lakers re-sign these two?