I am cutting off my hate for these two NBA teams and reporting that Karl says he will wear either #35 (his daughter in the WNBA's number) or #11 (his high school number). Don't NBA players take this number thing a little TOO seriously? I mean, you're getting paid millions, dude... don't worry about what frickin' number you get... http://www.signonsandiego.com/sports/nba/20030717-1609-bkn-newlakers.html
Respect, like he did when Magic came out and said he had HIV. Wasn't it Malone that said he didn't want to play with him..... Malone only has respect for one person, himself. He's so stupid I'm sure that he thinks he'll get the HIV virus from wearing the number.
It's a tough call on Malone. I mean a lot of us didn't travel to Toronto this year. When it's life and death you can't fault someone for take the safe road. Although it dies explain why he didn't win a championship. Sometimes you have to put youself on the line.
Same Malone who banged a 13 year old while he was in college and then ignored his daughter for years. He's not the only NBA star to do that (LBird did the same thing - ignoring an illegitimate daughter). Malone played with a HOF guard for his entire career and couldn't get it done. Now he wants to ride Shaq and Kobe's coattails to a ring.
Doesn't make it right. If you're going to air something that hurtful, do so personally, not in public.
There wasn't the kind of knowledge about HIV that we have now. It was only because Magic contracted the virus that the NBA started working to educate the players about HIV.
Yeah, there was a segment on 60 Minutes in the mid-90s about Malone and the child he fathered and then ignored. I believe it was part of a larger story on pro athletes. But the youthfulness of the mother of Malone's daughter was made clear in the report.
Malone played with a HOF guard for his entire career and couldn't get it done. Now he wants to ride Shaq and Kobe's coattails to a ring. You can't ride the coattails of a #5 seed that lost in the 2nd round the previous year ... at least not to a ring.
Dream Team '96 was a force, but this is 2003. Regardless, with the possibility of an undefeated team in the Colorado State Prison System Basketball League looking ever more likely with each passing day whatever chance LA's short term desperation move had to regain their former glory is disappearing faster than Kobe out the back door of a Vail lodge.
You are kidding yourself if you believe he will go to jail. How do you figure this was a desperation move?
You've got to be kidding me that Kobe Bryant would ever be charged with rape....er, nevermind. Sure it was a desperation move. O'Neal's on his way down and probably won't play in this league past when his current deal runs out. How much longer are Payton and the Statuatory Rapist going to last?
If it's hurtful, then the league is being hurtful for stopping play every time blood is spotted, in reaction to Magic. If there was nothing to what Malone said then why the hell does the NBA do that?
