Dwight Howard calls "worst day of my life" the Stan Van Gundy moment back in 2012

Dwight Howard said when Stan Van Gundy threw him under bus saying during a meeting with reporters that the big man asked for his firing, it was the worst day of his life.

It was April 2012 and the duo was with the Orlando Magic.

Per NBC Sports, Van Gundy drank his Diet Pepsi in a media session and told everyone Howard went to management and asked for the coach to be fired — then Howard walked into the session, not knowing what had been said, and gave Van Gundy a hug and said everything was fine. 

On ESPN’s The Jump Thursday, Howard called it the “worst day of my life.”

“The first question is like ‘Dwight, they said you wanted to get Stan fired.’ I was like ‘Oh, my God,’ ” Howard recalled. “That was literally the worst day of my life. We had a game that night. And that was the worst game I ever played. Like, I could not hit the basket for nothing. And you would have thought — I don’t know what was going on that night, but it was the worst ever.

“So man, shout out to Stan, man. Shout out to Stan, man.”