Why Getting Rich Young Leads to Temptation — Dwight Howard and MPJ
00:00:00.080 | For you coming into the league at 18 and being given access to everything, being given millions
00:00:05.680 | of dollars, number one pick, superstar, the team is yours, the city's yours, and people
00:00:10.200 | try to point to your shortcomings or the children out of wedlock or this or that as a hit at
00:00:16.120 | your character.
00:00:17.120 | It don't matter if you think you're the most solid dude in the world, closest to God, pray
00:00:21.240 | 12 hours a day.
00:00:22.240 | If you're giving that at 18 years old and you've never seen any of these things, anybody's
00:00:26.120 | going to have shortcomings.
00:00:27.240 | So talk about that experience.
00:00:28.560 | Well, it was just the temptation of everything.
00:00:31.720 | Yeah.
00:00:32.720 | When you have money, you're tempted to buy whatever you want, do whatever you want, and it's really
00:00:38.280 | just a choice.
00:00:39.280 | That's why God give you free will.
00:00:41.640 | You know, obviously, we're going to have our shortcomings, obviously we're going to fail,
00:00:47.180 | but what do you do when you get up after you fall?
00:00:50.260 | Are you going to turn away?
00:00:51.640 | Are you going to be the same?
00:00:52.740 | Now, obviously, there were some times where I had the same thing happen.
00:00:56.120 | Like people say, I had some kids out of wedlock.
00:00:59.280 | I had to learn a lesson.
00:01:00.280 | Until I learned the lesson, things had to happen.
00:01:03.440 | Now, obviously, these kids aren't, they're not bad lessons.
00:01:07.600 | They're blessings.
00:01:08.600 | But I had to learn in other ways because of what I did by having these kids out of wedlock,
00:01:14.040 | i.e. child support, having to deal with, you know, co-parenting and stuff like that, which
00:01:19.600 | can be very difficult when you have to deal with multiples.
00:01:22.600 | You know what I'm saying, so that's the things that I had to take accountable to.
00:01:28.020 | Like I messed up and did this, that, and the third, and nobody else can judge me but God.