Dwight Howard sat in for Shaquille O'Neal on TNT's broadcast of Tuesday's NBA playoffs games. O'Neal missed his second straight broadcast due to other work commitments, which is why the network tapped Howard to fill some of the void left by the Los Angeles Lakers legend.

In this week's sports media column, Chad Finn shared what's irked him about the national broadcasts in the NBA playoffs.

Keep up with tonight's NBA Playoffs doubleheader with a pair of Game 5's. The Nightly Pulse has all the scores and highlights. The Celtics are battling to keep their season alive tonight at home, down 3-1 to the Knicks. They’ll be doing so without Jayson Tatum (Achilles), who is done for the rest of the postseason.

In a recent "NBA on TNT" halftime report, Shaquille O'Neal drew a strikingly funny cross-generational comparison between Minnesota Timberwolves center Rudy Gobert and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

NBA on TV about to look way different. The Timberwolves eliminated the Lakers, live on TNT, and then longtime NBA play-by-play man Kevin Harlan said something that hit

NBC Sports, TNT Sports, Fox Sports and the conference have yet to issue ... turned down a $70 million offer to leave the Huskies for the same position with the NBA's Los Angeles Lakers. All of Marquette's 37 games were televised last season.

This is after Hall of Fame big man Shaquille O'Neal was nowhere to be found as the broadcast started. Ernie Johnson provided the usual intro for the hosts, which, as always, included Kenny Smith and Charles Barkley. However, it was Jalen Rose who filled in for O'Neal.