Karl Malone - The Mailman

Karl Anthony Malone (born July 24, 1963, in Bernice, Louisiana) is a retired American professional basketball player. He was nicknamed in college as the Mailman for his consistency ("the mailman always delivers") and his work in the post. Malone twice won the NBA Most Valuable Player award. He is generally considered one of the greatest power forwards in NBA history, and has scored the second most points in NBA history, trailing only Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

Karl Malone was chosen by the Jazz in 1985 out of Louisiana Tech with the 13th overall pick in the draft. After his rookie season, the Jazz saw in him the potential to be the cornerstone of their offense. So, they traded star forward, Adrian Dantley, to the Detroit Pistons and decided to build around Malone.

Malone is regarded as one of the best power forwards ever. He collected two regular-season MVP Awards, 11 NBA First Team nominations and was also selected to the NBA All-Defensive Team three times.

He scored 36,928 points (25.0 per game), second best all-time, on remarkable .516 shooting. His high field goal percentage benefited from two factors, namely the pick-and-roll offense, and secondly his physical power, enabling him to safely slam dunk on most forwards. Malone grabbed an average 10.1 rebounds (thus averaging a double-double in his career) and also stole an average 1.41 balls per game.

Malone was a very physical player. He liked to use his body builder physique to draw contact from defenders, and for a good part of his career, dunk over them and put other players in foul trouble. As a result, he would lead the NBA in free throws made seven separate seasons (an NBA record). He was also a physical defender and rebounder, and one of the most durable players ever in the NBA, missing a total of five regular season games in his first 13 years in the league and still playing well at age 40, becoming the oldest player to both log a triple-double and to be part of the starting five for an NBA-Finals bound team. Malone's work ethic showed prominently in his formative years in the NBA where he raised his free throw shooting percentage from below 50% to 75% in a few years. He also added a long range jump shot which made him nearly impossible to guard.

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[larry89]

karl and john.. one of the greatest duos of all fucking time

[the1sin]

Karl Malone is the best power forward of all time no power forward can top him not duncan garnett rodman

[Siliency]

@the1sin And Nowitzki?

[jayjoetube14]

Karl Malone is overrated.

[tash1121]

the end just repeated the start



[YZKyleXY]

poor choice of song....but awesome vid

[Johnnyman4321]

to bad he never won a nba chamionship.

[azntalldud34u]

@the1sin Charles Barkley... maybe Shawn Kemp?

[93mherrera]

@hellocrazy1 i agree haha

[braincrusher69]

whats the MAILMANS ADDRESS I"LL FUCK ON HIS LETTERBOX

[XxHooksxX]

@billslover90

Nash and Stoudemire>>>>>>>>Kidd/Martin

[billslover90]

best pg-pf duos:

1. malone and stockton

2. kemp and payton

3. kidd and martin