- If you look at my skin, bam, bam.
It's just popping and glowing
all because of my Shea butter baby.
♪Shea butter, baby♪
What's up GQ, this your boy D Howard,
and here are my 10 essentials that I need every day
to get my day popping.
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I always like to smell good.
I always want to leave a good scent when I leave people,
like, man, you smell good, whew.
I use it for all occasions,
even when I'm playing basketball.
So before the game,
I actually take about three sprays
and put it on.
So I've had referees and other players come to me and say,
"hey man. What do you got on, man, you smell good."
Yeah, I didn't tell them my secret,
but I guess now the secret is out. It's the cologne.
Out of these four, this is the original,
this is the one that kind of started everything.
The Baccarat the original.
Oh my God, It's so...
Its uh, I can't describe it. It's just heaven.
♪I'm in heaven. I'm in heaven.♪
That's what it smells like when I sprayed this cologne.
I mean, I feel like I'm in heaven.
Gotta bring the vibes.
I love having speakers around.
I have at least 25 to 30 speakers at my house.
People try to hop on a Bluetooth,
but I think I'm one of the greatest DJs in the world.
I basically have a playlist for any time during the day,
if it's a big crowd of people, I want to get the vibes up.
You know, I have certain music that I play.
If I'm at home chilling
and I want to spend,
I am spending time with my children,
I have certain music that I play.
This speaker is one of the loudest speakers that I've had.
It isn't that big
compared to most of the speakers that I have,
but it brings the noise.
I call it the thunder box
and we actually bring this to the games.
And my teammates call me,
this is crazy, they called me Radio Raheem,
or MC Tight Shirt.
So if you ever see me with a tight shirt and a radio,
you know what time it is, we getting loud.
We get proud, and we having a good time.
I have different types of sages that I use.
I have sage with rosemary, dragon's blood sage,
and then I have my shocker sage so...
Anytime I'm on the road,
we going on my home, or we going to a new building,
I always take my sage and I would sage myself.
During the playoffs in the bubble.
I actually saged a whole floor before every game,
you know, so I would wake up
while my teammates are asleep
and I would go down the whole hallway,
and I would sage every one of my teammates room doors.
So when they come out the room,
they'll smell the sage and they already knew that, oh,
Dwight has been through here already.
Actually, when I got back here on the team
with the Lakers and last year,
they allowed me to sage the whole practice facility.
So I actually went around saged every place.
I saged all security guard offices,
every person that works in the Lakers Organization
on the business side, the team side,
on the court, it took me about three hours.
It was a lot of fun, but it was a lot of work.
I was exhausted after that,
the fire alarm kinda went off.
My Bible, will take this everywhere I go.
It's a lot of things in here that I'll try to use,
implement in my daily life.
For a lot of people, including myself at times,
it was very difficult to read.
One of my doctors, we call him a sensei.
He taught me how to read this book.
So I take it everywhere I go, no matter where I'm at,
and I get down lows from the spirit.
I love lotions. If you look at my skin, bam, bam,
it's just popping and glowing,
all because of my shea butter baby.
♪ Shea butter, baby♪
I love to smell good,
but also like to put good things on my skin.
So this is shea butter and it is scented shea butter,
this one is called 'Money on the Street'.
The place is called Aroma Paradise. I went there one time.
I was like, man, this stuff smells really good.
I started getting it, my teammates started liking it.
So I became the lotion guy for the team.
So if you ever need some good lotion,
some good smell good. I got you.
I love crystals. They bring good energy.
Here, we have the rose quartz crystal,
which is one of my favorites.
And what pink represents with the crystals is love
and giving generosity.
And I have different pieces of crystals
that I actually put in my locker.
Also have a crystal roller.
I have a roller that I will use and I will take the roller
and I roll my Jersey with it. I roll my skin with it.
When I get to the court, I feel very vibrant.
I feel energy energized
and I'm always smiling and cheesing on the court.
So as you can tell,
the love quartz has really worked out.
So yeah, it a good piece right here.
It's pretty heavy, so if you ever need
to get hit in the head with some love, come see me.
I got a big crystal for you
and I hit you over the head with it.
And hopefully after that, you'll start loving some people
and get some love coming back to you. Crystals.
The sound bowl.
One day I was at a crystal store
and I was intrigued
by someone playing with the bowl
and I tried it myself.
And when I finished, I felt really clear in my head,
my whole body. I felt centered.
If you want to get your shockers in order,
get you a little bowl. It doesn't have to be this big.
I'm just a big ol'guy. So I like big bowls.
Would you like me to play for you guys?
So usually, I might hit it a couple of times.
[sound bowl playing]
And then I'd just,
go around.
[sound bowl continues playing]
I also take my cereal during the nighttime,
when I'm really hungry,
I put it inside here and I...
No, just kidding. I wouldn't.
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Candles are always going throughout my house.
Whether they are small candles,
whether they are three foot candles,
whether they are the deep tub candles.
I love candles. Even I'm on the road,
I take my candles with me.
I take my candles in the locker room,
take my candles to the movies sometimes.
One of my favorite scents is the strawberry pound cake.
When I haven't eaten all day,
and I know I can't have those desserts,
cause I got to stay in shape
for this championship we're getting,
this is my way of having my cheat meal.
But when I light this baby up,
I feel like I just had a whole cake. Smells good.
Make you wanna eat the candle, am telling no lies.
Eat you some candies.
Gum and mints.
You shouldn't be talking to nobody
with your breath smelling like the morning,
like you just woke up.
Now, the one thing about gum,
I try not to chew a lot of it because,
it makes your stomach feel as though you're about to eat.
So your stomach starts to get ready
for that process of wanting to digest the food like that.
And people feel extra hungry when they chew gum.
So that's why I have Mentos.
These little mints. They strong, it says 30 minutes,
but they really last for about a good hour.
Bad breath could be a game time strategy. But not me.
Uh uh.
That's not my strategy. I want my breath smelling good.
I want my clothes smelling good.
I want nothing about me to be stained. Even my gas.
My X box.
When I wanna play 2K or Mortal Kombat,
this is what I bring on the road with me.
I will not leave my house without my X-Box.
Not a big gamer like that,
where I'll sit and play for nine hours.
But I do love watching movies
or I watch one of my favorite shows,
which is Game of Thrones.
All 10 seasons. I've seen it at least 10 times
or more and they're pretty long.
So that tells you how much I really love Games of Thrones.
It's just something about,
♪tatata taa♪
Something about it, I can't get over.
The last season kinda of pissed me off of Game of Thrones.
I was really upset with how it ended.
I thought that the ice people were a lot stronger
and that they was going to do more damage.
They got killed so easy.
Somebody snuck up and stabbed the main person
and then everyone died. And I was like, what?
Y'all did all this for this?
I start my day, and no matter what I'm doing,
with some fruit.
It's like the number one thing
that's in my refrigerator right now.
Grapes, oranges, apples, nectarines.
I also grow fruit at my house. I grow blueberries,
blackberries, oranges.
Well, I don't know if you consider fig a fruit,
but yes, figs.
If was lost on an island.
I wouldn't have to go get anything but some fruit
and I'll be able to survive.
My favorite fruit? That is tough.
I know my daughter's favorite fruit is a tomato.
See, people might not know that. Tomatoes are fruits.
I used to like grape slices. So I would take my grapes,
they're already small, but I would slice them up,
put them in a refrigerator
and I would have cold sliced grapes.
They're pretty good.
Thank you GQ sports for letting me come on
and show everybody my top 10 essentials.
And come on watch the Lakers get this parade
this year y'all.
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