Charles Barkley
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On Magic Johnson's return to basketball: "We're just playing basketball. It's not like we're going out to have unprotected sex with Magic."
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Timeline
| 20 Feb 1963 |
Charles Barkley born, Leeds, AL. |
| 1984 |
Drafted fifth, Philadelphia 76'ers. |
| 21 Dec 1991 |
Arrested in Milwaukee for disorderly conduct, after breaking Joseph McCarthy's nose in a bar. |
| Jun 1992 |
Acquitted of assault charge resulting from his December arrest. |
| 7 Jul 1996 |
Jeb Tyler files an assault complaint against Barkley over an altercation in The Basement, a Cleveland dance bar. Tyler: "He said it like three times, 'You got to leave.' I said, 'No, I'm not leaving the bar.' Then I said, 'How about you leave the bar?' As soon as I said that, he punched me in the nose."
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| 2 Aug 1997 |
Jury rejects Jeb Tyler's claim of $550,000 against Barkley, over the July 1996 bar fight. |
| 26 Oct 1997 |
Basketball great Charles Barkley is charged with aggravated battery and resisting arrest after throwing 20-year-old man Jorge Lugo through a plate glass window in an Orlando, Florida dance club. Barkley later tells reporters: "I regret we weren't on a higher floor." |
| 19 Apr 2000 |
Retires from NBA basketball. "Now I'm just what America needs: another unemployed black man." |
| 1 Oct 2002 |
Book, I May Be Wrong, But I Doubt It. |
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