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Article: Mailman to get his just due // MVP award would be Malone's crowning glory
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- May 18, 1997
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SALT LAKE CITY The tables get turned this weekend. The Mailman
receives, rather than gives, a special delivery.
Karl Malone is all but certain to beat out Michael Jordan for
the NBA's Most Valuable Player award, an accomplishment that will
represent the crowning achievement of a 12-year career of personal
accomplishments and playoff failures.
Malone has made the West's All-Star roster 10 years running -
the same record number of seasons in which he has scored 2,000 points
or more. He has played in the playoffs every year he has been in the
league. He has been the league's pre-eminent power forward for the
last decade.
And this season, he has his best chance yet to win the trip to
the ...