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Article: Karl Malone has it good here in Utah
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- July 6, 2003
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I've been watching the Karl Malone show for 18 years now -- the
first 10 from a ringside seat as a sports writer and the past eight
as an intrigued, usually amazed, often confused bystander.
Karl Malone has left me scratching my head more than 11th-grade
calculus, and that includes his latest foray into the treacherous
waters of professional basketball free agency, where teams like the
Lakers, Mavericks and Celtics circle like sharks at the prospects of
picking up a bargain on their own terms.
By not simply agreeing to play for the Jazz for whatever money
they might choose to pay him -- reportedly about $5 million -- Karl
Malone, two weeks shy of his 40th birthday, has in effect made
himself ...