Is Dwight Howard better than Bill Russell?
Magic announcer Matt Goukas thinks so Mike Bianchi, Orlando Sentinel April 3, 2010 All you old-timers out there, take your blood pressure medicine, put on a soothing rendition of Mel Torme singing “Fly Me to the Moon” and brace yourself for what you are about to hear: Dwight Howard is a better defensive center than Bill Russell. That’s right, BILL RUSSELL. And this isn’t me talking because, quite frankly, Bill Russell was before my time although I do remember when I was kid listening to my stepdad and his buddies talking about how Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was a great center, but, by gosh, he was no Bill Russell. In fact, I almost spewed Bud Light out of my nose the other night after the Magic-Nuggets game when Magic color analyst Matt Guokas was talking to play-by-play man David Steele during their post-game wrap-up. That’s when Guokas dropped the bombshell and actually said Howard is a better defensive center than Russell and, therefore, the greatest defensive big man in the history of the
