Has anyone seen how cloe these stats are to Yao's rookie year stats? Karl bounced back his second year to 20pts and 10 rebounds I think Yao has a good shot at matching or bettering these stats with the rockets. http://www.nba.com/playerfile/karl_malone/index.html?nav=page
Steve Francis' passing ability is NO WHERE near those of Johnny Stockton, let alone the self-centered attitude.
While we are actually comparing a beloved Rocket to a Utah Jazz player (Blasphemy), and seem to lessen our hatred of the Jazz in the last few month, I would just like to point out that the Jazz just beat Portland and Dave Arroyo and AK played very well. Need I also mention that Malone and Stockton were low draft picks aswell? They could be a dangerous team. So what's my point? It's not that I wanna actually give praise to the Jazz but that throw caution that the Jazz can challenge us for the final play off spot, never underestimate those punks. Let's renew the hatred for Jazz and all Jazz players, including Stockton no matter how good of a playmaker he was, even at 40.