(TheStar.com) Malone's Picks...and more!

I saw this, just felt the need to share:

http://www.thestar.com/Sports/article/273853

Nov 06, 2007 04:30 AM
Dave Feschuk
Protect oneself how?

"It's mean, dirty and low-down and y'all already think I'm crazy," said Mitchell. "I don't want to read in the paper the next day, `Mitchell tells `em to ...'"

The coach didn't finish the sentence, but you can extrapolate the gist. Mitchell, after all, played 13 seasons in the NBA and only led the league in one statistical category: Fouls. So he knows a thing or two about the unsavoury techniques of the NBA trenches. And he tells a decent story about one particularly low blow.

On the night in question Karl Malone, the Utah Jazz legend, was setting illegal screens that too often ended with Malone's elbow in the face of Terry Porter, Mitchell's Minnesota Timberwolves teammate. Pleas to the referees went unheeded and soon enough, Porter's fist was planted in the Mailman's sub-drawstring.

"Terry didn't hit him hard ... You ain't got to hit `em hard. All you've got to do is graze `em ... Just tap `em. Just ring the little bells," said Mitchell. "And Karl Malone just dropped. He was screaming, `Ahh! He hit me in the balls! He hit me in the balls!'

"The next pick Karl Malone set ... he kept those arms in. I'm telling you, there's things you can do."

I don't often laugh from basketball articles or getting hit in the jewels, but this one was primo...thanks, Sam!

 

De nada.

BTW - I still recall the torn jersey he wore as a badge of honor - after undercutting Boki and Boki grabbing it to keep from getting injured.

 

Even without a ring our two will thankfully never be like Karla...and BTW - Hakeem won two, BACK2BACK!!!