s_knight8

Karl Malone, sidelined because of a sprained knee ligament, criticized
the Utah Jazz for a skit presented during a timeout in Saturday
night's Lakers-Jazz game in Utah. Malone, who played 18 years for the
Jazz before joining the Lakers last summer, was upset about the way
the skit mocked Bryant's legal situation. ``For them to put that out
there about him, that's disrespectful,'' Malone said. ``I will never,
ever forgive them for this. No class at all.''

c the shocker

Pot. Kettle. Black.

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topcat

Maybe they should have just ran the film "Fatal Attraction" instead?

TC

dan

s_knight8 <s_knight8@hotmail.com> scribbled:

read this as:

I actually found it funny, but since I'm now a Laker, I have to say the
right things. I don't want to fuck up my chances of being re-signed.

btw, what was the skit?

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vicxnews

Is Karl mad enough to go into the HOF as a Laker?

http://www.pe.com/sports/lakers/note..._lakers_notes_
29.58086.html

Malone blasts 'no class' Jazz

12:48 AM PST on Thursday, January 29, 2004

By BRODERICK TURNER / The Press-Enterprise

LOS ANGELES - Karl Malone leaned back in his chair, propped his feet up on
his locker and proceeded to lambaste the Jazz and Utah owner Larry Miller
for using an impersonator to mock him during Saturday night's game in Salt
Lake City.

Wearing a black shirt and white sweats, Malone looked at the media gathered
before him and talked about how his plan always had been not to talk about
the Jazz after spending the first 18 years of his career there.

But Malone said the Jazz organization showed "no class" for having the
Bear, the team mascot, do a skit in which a telephone rang and the voice on
the end other end sounded like Malone saying he wanted to "come home."
Malone, on the injured list with a sprained right knee, was at his ranch in
Arkansas Saturday night, but heard about the skit from his teammates and
friends in Utah.

Making matters worse for Malone was when the Jazz did the skit again, the
phone ringing and having Miller answer with a cellphone while sitting
courtside. The Malone impersonator told Miller he wanted to come home.
Miller took the phone from his ear and threw it on the court.

Malone said an apology came from the Bear in a call to his wife. He was
asked if he'd accept an apology from Miller.

"I don't want one now," Malone said. "I'm from the old school. That's what
you think about what you say before you say it. I've thought about this ...
I don't want a call from him. You said what you said and it's irrelevant
now. I left there the way I wanted to leave, by doing it with class ...

"After 18 years, for them to stoop to that kind of level, that's no class.
And that's something that I'll never forget."

Malone said he was even more upset that the Jazz took it further. The
Malone impersonator went on to say how he didn't have it as bad as "Ko..."
He stopped there, but obviously the reference was to Kobe Bryant, who has
been charged with felony sexual assault.

"They don't know this kid. This is a great kid," Malone said. "For them to
put that out there like that or to say that about him, that's
disrespectful, and I'll never, ever forgive them for that. Ever, in my life
....

"There's no place in there for this. The way I left and after 18 years and
I get that ... The decision I made, I always knew it was the right thing to
do, but after stuff like that, it just shows it was the right thing to
do."

Malone said he once wondered why Roger Clemens said he wouldn't go into the
Baseball Hall of Fame as a Boston Red Sox, the team he spent most of his
career with. Malone hinted that he might not go into the Hall of Fame as a
Jazz.

"I know the chain of command," Malone said. "For somebody to pull a skit
like that, they have to get approved by the front office, and they got
approved because the Bear told us that he got approved."

The Lakers return to Utah for a game March 8, but Malone still may not be
ready to play.

"I'm going to Utah on the 8th, whether I'm playing or not," Malone said.
"Then bring it on."

The Lakers said the injury report has changed with Malone, but that he is
expected back around mid-March.

"It's a serious injury," Malone said. "I'm trying to get better."


Also: With the Suns waiving forward/center Scott Williams Wednesday, Lakers
coach Phil Jackson said they'll have interest in the big man. Williams won
three NBA championships with the Bulls with Jackson.

dave zero

Maybe they just should have left Kobe out of their little rabble-rousing
hype job. If they want to slam Malone for leaving and coming to the
Lakers, I can at least understand where those feelings would come from.
But to bring Kobe, who has nothing to do with the Jazz, into this not
only adds insult to injury, it shows exactly the kind of silly
celebrity-bashing that you'd expect in LA, not Utah.

Hell, Utah should love Kobe for those airballs he chucked up so many
seasons ago to end the playoff games.


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Dave Zero

"And I don't care about making an ass out of myself because most people
already realize I am one." - Dr. Kary B. Mullis

"I criticize by creation" - Cicero

"I'm not here to make people happy. I prefer to piss people off." - Liam
Gallagher

neil cerutti

Can't Bryant and Malone be expected to be mature enough to be
able to laugh at themselves even a little bit? Sheesh. The
whining from Malone is understandable--he's always been that way.
But why are any fans upset?

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Neil Cerutti
*** Life is a function returning void. ***

jeff mayner

If you saw it, or read about it, I really doubt you would make the comment
abut how Malone supposedly really found it. Jeff

dan

Jeff Mayner <jeffmayner@yahoonospam.com> scribbled:


you are correct, altho I don't think it's (the first section of it) that
bad. The part about having the "Malone" guy say "at least I'm not as bad as
Ko..." is.

However, considering all the crap Malone did in the past as an ignorant
fuck, I think he's only saying it's bad now because he's a teammate.

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glasses off. I said it all depends on whether or not she thinks I'm
better looking with her glasses off.

kapavars

I did not quite get it,, But how was Kobe pulled into this skit..
Please help me understand what it was about Kobe...