Friday, October 17th, 2008 at 8:00 am  |  433 responses

SLAMonline Top 50: Dwight Howard, no. 10

The definitive ranking of the best players in the NBA today…

by Jeff Fox

Look in the sky. It’s a bird. It’s a plane. It’s the Superman Dwight Howard Action Doll by SLAMco.

Faster than a speeding (Washington) Bullet. Stronger than a (Shaq Diesel) locomotive (well, maybe not quite). Able to leap tall defenders in a single bound. Truly a man of steel (never missed a game throughout his four-year NBA career), Dwight Howard is the new poster child for NBA centers, making lumbering, immobile centers a thing of the past. And now, thanks to SLAMco’s limited time offer, he can be yours.

Owners of the original SLAMco NBA Superman Action Doll, the Shaquille O’Neal model, will be glad to know this one is new and improved. After complaints of children drowning in the amount of sweat produced by the O’Neal doll, Howard is relatively sweat-free! Plus, instead of spewing Kobe-hating rap lyrics and performing obscene phone calls like O’Neal, the Dwight Howard edition recites the Bible! Additionally, he is capable of hitting free throws (kinda, sorta)!

Still not sold on the dominance of Dwight Howard and your need for the SLAMco Superman Dwight Howard Action Doll? Despite only playing four years in the League, and not blowing out the candles on his 23rd birthday cake until December, Howard led the NBA in total rebounds three times, made the All-NBA and All-Star teams twice, and won a gold medal this summer in Beijing. And at 6-11, he is the tallest cat to win the Slam Dunk contest. With a still developing offensive game (his points per game has increased every year he has played) and intimidating shot-blocking skills, Howard is the complete package.

Better still, this superhero doesn’t just feast off the small and weak of the League. Against his top two opponents for the NBA’s top center crown last season, Yao Ming and Amare Stoudemire, Super Dwight averaged 25 points, 15 boards and 1.8 blocks per. Now is that superhuman or what!

So kids get out there and purchase your very own SLAMco Superman Dwight Howard Action Doll, for only $19.99. Considering the real Dwight Howard costs almost $14 million a year, you save over 13 million dollars! Doll comes with Orlando Magic uniform, Superman Slam Dunk contest outfit and Dwight’s ever-present muscle-hugging white undershirt. And if you order now, as a special bonus SLAMco will throw in Orlando’s J.J. Redick at no additional charge! No, not a J.J. Redick Action Doll, the real J.J. Redick! Barely used, almost brand new! So order your SLAMco Superman Dwight Howard Action Doll today while supplies last. Phone booth sold separately.

Want more of the SLAMonline Top 50? Check out the archive.

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  • j-smoov 5

    Hahahah LOVE the J.J. Redick part. :D Oh, and Dwayne, this list is great. AI’s aging idiot.

  • Teddy-the-Bear

    ^^^^^^^^ regardless, he should have been ranked ahead of Melo.

  • Boomdizzle

    dwight is a monster and a good post defender but he aint good against the likes of sheed or KG unlike amare who is!howard still has to get a bank shot like TD’s or somethin to improve! by the way the list for me is as good as what the top 5 will project. i envision 1)kobe 2)lebron 3)CP3 4)KG 5)Amare (he’s gonna be 100% this year finally, barring any setbacks)

  • willlllly

    are you kidding, this list is so badly done, paul peirce wouldnt be in my top 20 and yet he is at least in the top 9 on this list, dwight should be in the top 5, nash should of been named before the top ten

  • KA

    lol at bible spewing doll comes with jj reddick. that pic makes dwight look like a retard tho. btw amares ahead of dude right? im down witdat.

  • http://slamonline.com Simone S.Y Lawy

    Bet is da man, Rocket fans is just annoying.

  • Gaz

    Jeff Fox’s article= Gold
    BETCATS article= Sh!t

  • KA

    also this comment section is informative in telling us that james the balls is a damn fool.

  • http://www.lkz.ch Darksaber

    Another gem from Gaz. Personal vendetta maybe?

  • tike

    OMG all this guy does is DUNK i mean veryone knows hes a good player but Top 10 geez SLAM bunch of d*ck riders!!….oh and if P-double aint coming up soon im gonna scream the guy is not that nice!!

  • tike

    SLAM really cooks my grits!! i dare that bug eyed number 34 2 be less than 8-9…no more SLAM for me if so….not that they care if they lose fans of the mag…

  • tike

    And off D-wade should be ahead of CP3 if he isnt then really shoot me!!

  • Ecmelo

    ohhhh…..dwight howard is the best center on this planet…and you put him on 10!!!!
    hahahahahah
    this list realllyyy reaallyy SUCKS!!!
    soorryy but its true

  • Jaylen Rose

    My Guess
    1.LeBron
    2.Kobe
    3.C3P
    4.KG
    5.Flash
    6.Duncan
    7.Nash
    8.Amare
    9.Pierce

  • Ecmelo

    hahahaahah….amare and duncan are NOT better than D12:D:D
    he’s the best Center!!!!!

  • Nikos Galis

    @Emphasis….:there is no doubt that Gasol is a better bball player than Howard (i won’t insult Yao and Dirk by comparing them to Dwight…)but you have to have two things in mind in order to understand what’s going on here:
    1)it is an NBA top-50.(NOT: “best 50 bball players alive”)
    2)we are participating on a SLAM forum with 70% of the commentors having a “videogame/AND-1″ bball education.

  • Ecmelo

    and here is my guess:
    9. Tim Duncan
    8. Paul Pierce
    7. Steve Nash
    6. Amare Stoudemire
    5. D-Wade
    4. KG
    3. Chris Paul
    2. Kobe Bryant
    1. LeBron James

  • Nikos Galis

    @Ecmelo…:i bet you would have put James White first if he was still in the NBA…

  • Tekno

    Hmm…Who was the best big man during the gold medal game in the Olympics? Pau Gasol. Who was the second best? Marc Gasol.
    Dwight does not deserve to be this high just yet.
    If Timmy gets a worse ranking than Amare or PP, then I’m boycotting Slamonline for one month just to detox myself.

  • Nikos Galis

    @Tekno….:Gasol better than our dunkers..?????
    watch your words on this forum young man….

  • http://hoops4life.com overtime

    TOP 10!The fact that hes never missed a game doesn’t get mentioned enough

  • http://www.freewebs.com/betcats BETCATS

    “Darksaber says:
    Another gem from Gaz. Personal vendetta maybe?”
    No, Ga(y)z just hates me for no reason. It just started hating on me out of nowhere and i said it wasnt worth responding to. Then Ga(y)z got mad(er).

  • http://www.freewebs.com/betcats BETCATS

    i am volunteering for Obama today, i still cant vote, but i can inform others about early-voting on spot registration (registration for voting in the novemeber elections is closed), so i gotta jet. Peace.

  • Tekno

    @Nikos Galis…I never said either Gasol was a better player than our “dunkers” (as you so aptly put it). I was just making the point that in a big game D-12 had the chance to dominate with all that muscle, athleticism and whatever else we extol him for…and he didn’t. The best big men on the floor for that game were the Gasol brothers.
    So I’ll watch my words if you watch that game without your ‘dunking’ blinkers on.

  • WOOOZE

    Obama > BETCATS
    McCain > BETCATS
    Hillary Clinton’s dog > BETCATS
    Hillary Clinton’s dog’ sh1t > BETCATS

  • http://www.freewebs.com/betcats BETCATS

    BETCATS>WOOZE

  • Anton

    Bosh is better than Dwight

  • Gaz

    Gee that was an original comment BETCATS…
    I dunno how you thought that hilarious piece of work up. Your brain is just a comedic maze.
    Stale urine > BETCATS

  • Gaz

    It sure is a personal vendetta Darksaber, enjoy…
    Darksaber > BETCATS

  • raptors

    if hes 10..then cb4 should be 9 unarguably

  • http://slamonline.com Chocolate Gum

    Why is DH #10 on the list? He’s been spending his whole off-season eating free McDonalds for doing that Monopoly commercial…..but no worries, he’s a beast and 5 Big Macs before a game won’t slow him down….he’s gonna average 23ppg and 15rbg this season

  • Lee

    Im a big fan of this guy.
    He has alot of potential to be an All-Star for many years to come.
    Definately HOF material, reminds me alot of David Robinson. Possibly can become even better than he was.

  • Brian Wimer

    I thought it is an NBA rule that know players are to wear a t-shirt under there jersey. Vince Carter had on a white t-shirt under his Black pinstripe jersey.I don’t have any problems with an player wearing a white t-shirt under their jersey, it just made Vince Carter stand out from the other players.

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