http://www.nba.com/2015/news/featur...alone-hakeem-olajuwon-fran-blinebury-feature/ Olajuwon credits mentor Malone for his success Three-time MVP taught Rockets legend to 'do the work' POSTED: Sep 14, 2015 1:04 AM ET
"If you aint got the ball, you can't shoot the ball." That's about the most Moses Malone commercial I could think of. Brilliant.
Also, if the Rox had never traded Mo, they probably would have never been able to draft Dream. Everything works out for a reason.
Not that I've seen, but Blinebury wrote a piece about them <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">.<a href="https://twitter.com/franblinebury">@franblinebury</a> on Moses and Dream: <a href="http://t.co/bZfohVqCNH">http://t.co/bZfohVqCNH</a></p>— Zach Lowe (@ZachLowe_NBA) <a href="https://twitter.com/ZachLowe_NBA/status/643387950902980608">September 14, 2015</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> No championship without Dream and no Dream without Moses. ---------- Feigen also wrote a piece that includes quotes from John Lucas and Calvin Murphy Spoiler <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Rockets?src=hash">#Rockets</a> legend Moses Malone dies, called 'the greatest human being you'd ever want to meet' via <a href="https://twitter.com/Jonathan_Feigen">@Jonathan_Feigen</a> <a href="http://t.co/Q1GBu6fGek">http://t.co/Q1GBu6fGek</a></p>— Greg Rajan (@GregRajan) <a href="https://twitter.com/GregRajan/status/643163974884679680">September 13, 2015</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> It must be pretty tough on Murph since he was possibly the last person to see Moses before he passed. ----- Edit: Here's a piece from J.A. Adande that includes a quote from CD (and Mo Cheeks) http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/1...ne-was-nba-most-underappreciated-great-player
Very happy to see there is both a GARM thread and an NBA dish for Moses Malone. The man was great for the Rockets and the whole NBA. I posted this in the NBA Dish thread but for those too young to have seen Malone here is a career retrospective. <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/q4CSuEPl18w" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
Unfortunately very large men, (which the majority of NBA players are) have heart problems later in life. Their heart is basically over worked to service a body that is much larger than average. After their career as athletes, often they cannot keep the same level of health. Add in the fact that African American men tend to have hereditary heart issues more often, and you get a recipe that large NBA players (or other sports athletes) have a pre-disposition for heart attacks or strokes at younger than average ages.
A reasonable explanation. I was wondering if he had a history of health or cardiac issues but I was reading what Mo Cheeks said about Moses that he was an exercise and health nut even at 60 so there must have been something congenital particularly since he died in his sleep when stress levels are at a minimum.
It has been strange the number of athletes dying at a young age. I google it and they mentioned the amount of sweat atheletes put into their workouts, which causes them to lose bad elements from their body but also good componenents which shortens their life span. It is truly a sad day, but I love the quote from Hakeem on how Moses made him work. I only wish our current big man had that work ethic not only in the weight room but on the court as well. RIP: Big MO, the coolest of the cool!!
A reprint of an awesome 2004 interview of Malone for Slam Magazine by Alan Paul. Some of the stuff he says in here makes you realize, players like this don't exist anymore, or if they do, they sure don't say the stuff he did in that interview. A lot of good quotes and references to former Rockets, as well : http://alanpaul.net/2015/09/rip-moses-malone/
