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blunt_probe
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Originally posted by Negrodamus:
Originally posted by blunt_probe:
Good for Pippen and f**k Malone. I feel awful for his son.
what happened? I remember when he initially denied his WNBA daughter was through extra marital affair.
Basically Malone impregnated a 13 year old girl, and denied the existence of their son. He talked to him once when he was 18, and flat out told the kid to go live his own life since it was too late to have a father son relationship. Demetrius Bell is an OT for the Bills.
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StOnEy333
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Sources: Buss elected to HOF
LOS ANGELES -- Los Angeles Lakers owner Jerry Buss has been elected to the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame, multiple sources within the organization confirmed.
Buss, who has been the owner of the Lakers since 1979 and has won nine NBA championships in Los Angeles, was among 19 finalists for the Hall of Fame, including Karl Malone, Scottie Pippen, Dennis Johnson, ex-WNBA star Cynthia Cooper-Dyke and longtime St. Anthony's High School coach Bob Hurley, who were reportedly elected as well.
An official announcement is expected Monday morning in Indianapolis, where the Final Four is being held. The induction ceremonies are scheduled for Aug. 13 in Springfield, Mass.
Buss, 77, helped usher in the "Showtime" era of the Lakers after purchasing the team along with the Los Angeles Kings, the Forum and a 13,000-acre Kern County ranch in 1979 for $67.5 million, then the largest transaction in sports history. Buss later sold everything but the Lakers, who are now primarily run by his son Jim and daughter Jeannie.
The Lakers had won only one championship in 25 years before Buss purchased the team. After drafting Magic Johnson with the first overall pick in the 1979 NBA draft and teaming him with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the Lakers would win five championships over the next nine years while advancing to nine NBA Finals in 12 seasons.
With Buss at the helm, the Lakers became first NBA team to have a dance squad, the Laker Girls, and courtside seats became a living Hollywood Walk of Fame on game nights as Jack Nicholson became as synonymous with the Lakers as Pat Riley.
The Lakers have gone on to win four more championships this decade and currently have the second-best record in the league. The Lakers' nine championships under Buss' ownership are the most by a team in any of the four major North American professional leagues since he purchased the team.
"My dream really was to have the Lakers and Los Angeles identified as one and the same," Buss recently told ESPNLosAngeles.com "When I was just a fan, I used to really object when I would go to see the Lakers playing New York and most of the crowd would be ex-New Yorkers cheering for the Knicks. Then the next time, it would be the same with some other team. When you think New York, you think Yankees. I wanted that to be the case here as well. That when you think L.A., you think Lakers. I believe I've accomplished that."
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Originally posted by blunt_probe:
Originally posted by Negrodamus:
Originally posted by blunt_probe:
Good for Pippen and f**k Malone. I feel awful for his son.
what happened? I remember when he initially denied his WNBA daughter was through extra marital affair.
Basically Malone impregnated a 13 year old girl, and denied the existence of their son. He talked to him once when he was 18, and flat out told the kid to go live his own life since it was too late to have a father son relationship. Demetrius Bell is an OT for the Bills.
oh shiite. thanks BP. now i remember reading and listen to the kids story on ESPN's OTL. thank god for my bulls keeping his arse from getting a ring; twice.
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Originally posted by crzy:
Pippen the greatest perimeter defender of all time.
Malone was a choker, a dirty player, and a horrible person, but he was good.
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Originally posted by BobS:
Malone was a freak, he could do it all. For a big man he had a soft shooting touch, Too bad he never got a ring. Great human being also, wish more pro athletes had his class.
WTF? Great human being? Class? Which Malone are you referring to? Certainly not Karl.
http://www.makingpages.org/hoops/Malone.danger.html
Not to mention in college he impregnated a 13-yr who he NEVER gave a dime in child-support to. Karl Malone is a pedophile that deserves a Colombian neck-tie.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1W1GWYA_en&q=karl+malone+13+year+old&aq=3&aqi=g10&aql=f&oq=karl+malone+&gs_rfai=
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blunt_probe
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Originally posted by Negrodamus:
Originally posted by blunt_probe:
Originally posted by Negrodamus:
Originally posted by blunt_probe:
Good for Pippen and f**k Malone. I feel awful for his son.
what happened? I remember when he initially denied his WNBA daughter was through extra marital affair.
Basically Malone impregnated a 13 year old girl, and denied the existence of their son. He talked to him once when he was 18, and flat out told the kid to go live his own life since it was too late to have a father son relationship. Demetrius Bell is an OT for the Bills.
oh shiite. thanks BP. now i remember reading and listen to the kids story on ESPN's OTL. thank god for my bulls keeping his arse from getting a ring; twice.
No prob. That's actually where I first heard the story too. I was never a fan of his, but I did feel bad for him when he couldn't get a ring with the Lakers. Of course my pity for him went right out the window after hearing about this.
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Originally posted by BobS:
Malone was a freak, he could do it all. For a big man he had a soft shooting touch, Too bad he never got a ring. Great human being also, wish more pro athletes had his class.
Dude, you're so wrong about that. He had sex with 13 year old girls, was a horrible father, and a dirty player.
Just a pathetic human being.
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Negrodamus
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Originally posted by crzy:
Originally posted by BobS:
Malone was a freak, he could do it all. For a big man he had a soft shooting touch, Too bad he never got a ring. Great human being also, wish more pro athletes had his class.
Dude, you're so wrong about that. He had sex with 13 year old girls, was a horrible father, and a dirty player.
Just a pathetic human being.
I read somewhere that D. Bell was pregnant by his mother at the age of 13 therefore she surely must have been impregnated at the age of 12
. regardless that whole story was disgusting to how Karl Malone handled the situation.
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pantstickle
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Originally posted by Negrodamus:
Originally posted by crzy:
Originally posted by BobS:
Malone was a freak, he could do it all. For a big man he had a soft shooting touch, Too bad he never got a ring. Great human being also, wish more pro athletes had his class.
Dude, you're so wrong about that. He had sex with 13 year old girls, was a horrible father, and a dirty player.
Just a pathetic human being.
I read somewhere that D. Bell was pregnant by his mother at the age of 13 therefore she surely must have been impregnated at the age of 12. regardless that whole story was disgusting to how Karl Malone handled the situation.
Pregnant at 13 doesn't necessarily mean pregnant at 12. Not that it makes him less creepy or anything.
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Malone and Pippen were two of my favorite players to watch! These guys definitely deserve to be in the hall for what they did on the court.
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Originally posted by valrod33:
Congratulations to my favorite player of all time
Damn he was good, the best defensive player Ive ever seen.
Doesn't get enough credit IMO.
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Originally posted by NinerFanMT:
Originally posted by dobophile:
Originally posted by BobS:
Malone was a freak, he could do it all. For a big man he had a soft shooting touch, Too bad he never got a ring. Great human being also, wish more pro athletes had his class.
Agree to disagree.
Even I have to agree with you on that.
lol yeah, malone was kind of an ignorant douche.
however, NBA's 2nd all time leading scorer, and the best PF in NBA history. was my fav player growing up. im happy for him, he deserves it.
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Originally posted by Kalen49ers:
Pity Malone was a choker
lol how was he a choker? he ran into a Michael Jordan buzzsaw. the Jazz wouldve wiped the floor with any other team in those 2 Finals.
i think people are looking way too much into his personal life. he was the best PF in NBA history, and 2nd all time scorer. thats all that matters in an NBA HOF discussion. Michael Jordan is addicted to gambling, cheated on his wife, and is a rude, arrogant douche. nobody mentioned that when he got elected.