Orlando Magic superstar Dwight Howard talked about fatherhood and a few other topics with Esquire magazine.
As you probably already know, Howard and “Basketball Wives” star Royce Reed have an adorable son together. A few months back, the two went through a very messy custody battle over their son.
Here is what Howard had to say about his relationship with his son.
SR: I know it’s a subject you haven’t wanted to talk about publicly, but is fatherhood a part of your life?
DH: It’s very important. Hopefully me and my son’s mom will come to a better agreement for my son. When I do see him, we have the best time in the world. He acts just like me. He tries to run like me. He looks back and smiles like me. Fatherhood is great and it will get better. He’s young. He’s gonna need his father in his life. People say you don’t need a father to be successful. I take offense to that. I had an argument with my mom about Father’s Day and why it’s not celebrated like Mother’s Day.
SR: I’ve been around the NBA enough as a writer to see the women who would give anything just to get impregnated. And I’ve seen the men who didn’t care how many kids they had in how many different places, just as long as they had someone to fuck on the road. Pardon my French.
DH: I understand. With some of my teammates, they try so hard to be around their kid, and then the mother of their child makes it so hard. A lot of guys just say, “I’m not gonna deal with it.”
SR: It’s always the kids who pay the price.
DH: I would never, ever desert my child. A lot of my friends didn’t have fathers growing up, and they were very upset that their fathers weren’t around. I was lucky to have mine around.
Check out Dwight Howard’s full interview with Esquire Magazine here.
