Four-plus decades after he was left off the Team USA squad, being asked to lead the Americans in Tokyo is a significant ...

Johnson's wife protested -- "I don't want to ... a dozen times in advance of the games. Because Karl Malone (family death) and Kobe Bryant (sexual assault allegations) pulled out, it left them ...

Karl Malone spent 19 seasons dishing out bruises and taking them right back, so by the time 2004 rolled around, there wasn't much anyone could say or do to make him second-guess his style.

Now that we’ve got the basics out of the way, one of the most sought after graded rookie cards after such names as Michael Jordan and Charles Barkley, is that of “The Mailman” Karl Malone.

Hall of Fame Los Angeles star Kobe Bryant's debut threads fetched ... where they fell in five games to the Karl Malone-John Stockton-era Utah Jazz. Bryant had a lot to do with that Game 5 defeat.

He became one of six players in league history to average 20+ points per game in 12+ consecutive years, joining Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, LeBron James, Karl Malone, Kobe Bryant and Dirk Nowitzki.

The 1997 NBA Finals featured two teams with different narratives. On one side, the Chicago Bulls were defending their title and trying to win their fifth championship in seven years. On the other ...

After being traded by the Lakers in the deal that brought in Kobe Bryant, Divac considered ... Power forwards weren't supposed to move like Karl Malone. He kept his body under 5% fat and his ...

Former Laker Karl Malone scored 30 points against the Houston Rockets on April 25, 2004. Who are the oldest players to play in the NBA playoffs? LeBron James is not the oldest player to play in ...

Former Laker Karl Malone scored 30 points against the Houston Rockets on April 25, 2004. — James Williams It’s nip and tuck. Neither team has led by more than five points in the second half.