Hello and welcome to the Evening News.
As the playoffs are under way, we’ll keep you updated every evening. What’s happening today?
Here’s the latest news from around the league:
The Evening News: Jackson will listen to Raptors; Gasol and Dwight’s futures in LA not directly tied; Pistons will interview McMillan and Hunter
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Tweet of the Night: Metta World Peace fires back at Charles Barkley
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The Spurs are older and still getting it done.Its all about chemistry. Micheal Jordan was 36 during his last title run.
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Charles Barkley never won so it is hard for him to understand what it takes to win.
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I actually like Charles Barkley , but I had to respond to his statement only because he called my team old rags or something. Kinda funny
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Ouch.
Los Angeles Lakers forward Metta World Peace pulled out the “you never won a championship” card on TNT analyst and NBA legend Charles Barkley, who apparently called the Lakers an old team.
It’s understandable that Metta, now 33 years-of-age, would feel offended by whatever Barkley may have said – the man has a way of getting into players’ heads by sharing his thoughts without sugarcoating anything.
In terms of using age as the reason for the downfall of the Lakers, it’s hard to agree with Barkley’s logic. Steve Nash’s broken leg, two games into the season, had nothing to do with age. Kobe Bryant’s Achilles tear was also a freak incident – and perhaps overuse – but to call it age related? The double standard of saying Kobe is ageless when he plays well versus saying he was injured because he is old is comical. He either defies age, or he doesn’t.
Bernucca: Future murky for Lakers, biggest underachievers in NBA history
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Before Game 4 of their Western Conference first-round series against the San Antonio Spurs, the Los Angeles Lakers handed out white towels to fans at the Staples Center.
Apparently, someone in the marketing department didn’t understand symbolism. By halftime, those towels had become flags of surrender for the Lakers, the biggest underachieving team in the history of the NBA.
Dwight Howard offered his own symbolism, figuratively throwing in the towel midway through the third quarter. Unwilling to grit his teeth and bang and bump his way through all of another telling, embarrassing loss, he got himself ejected, starting his offseason of uncertainty with an hour’s headstart on his teammates.
Dwight Howard, human surrender flag. Yeah, there’s the sort of toughness you want to build a franchise around.
Sheridan: Dwight’s Future, Impact of Injuries, Who Can Come Back from 3-1?
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I have been sounding like a broken record talking about Prop 30, the so-called millionaire’s tax, that was adopted by voters last fall in California and levies a 10 percent surcharge on the state’s highest earners. This tax negates whatever financial advantage the Lakers would have in being able to offer larger annual raises to Howard to convince him to stay in Los Angeles.
Podcast: Dwight Howard leaving Lakers? The Prop 30 Factor
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California has a new millionaire’s tax, an item known as Prop 30 that was passed by voters last fall. The state takes 10 percent if you make beaucoup bucks and live in L.A., which many expect Dwight Howard to do for the next 5 years.
Texas, on the other hand, has no state income tax. And Texas also happens to be the home of the Dallas Mavericks and Houston Rockets, two of the teams that will be courting Howard when he becomes a free agent July 1.
Howard has waited his whole career to be the No. 1 star on the free agent market, and he and his agent, Dan Fegan, will be receiving visitors. (Warmly, I would think).
And you can be darn sure that Prop 30, and its implications — it basically levels the playing field financially between the Mavs & Rockets and the Lakers — will be a part of the discussion.
Just a little something extra to think about in the wake of Howard’s inglorious exit Sunday night (he was ejected in the third quarter) in the Lakers’ Game 4 loss to the Spurs.
And don’t forget this either: Every player on the Lakers except Steve Nash has a contract that expires by the end of next season. So if Dwight stays in L.A., he will be part of a rebuilding team that sacrificed two first-round draft picks to acquire Nash.
Is there a championship formula there?
I, for one, am skeptical, which will come across quite clearly in this podcast with old ESPN colleague Amy Lawrence, now of CBS SportsRadio.
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