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<< Back Next >> -------------------- April 24, 2002 Read HoopsCorner.com's latest feature articles: the 2nd annual HoopsCorner.com awards and Kukoc - the invisible man? Titles on this page: Karl Malone Jazz-Kings American Pride? Raptors-Pistons Karl Malone Before we make out our point let's give praise to the Utah Jazz. They played hard, deserved and earned a victory at Sacramento, against the Kings last night. 93-86 Utah. Series is tied at 1-1 and salt Lake City is ready to rumble. Utah was at their best, no questions about it. Among the things we noticed was that John "Dirt Bike" Stockton can play until he's 45, and he's not as dirty a player as we recall him to be. It must be humbleness brought on by the uncertainty of the season. Moving on, the best potential, raw, and most athletic player on the court was Andrei Kirilenko. If Jazz owner Larry Miller or anyone in the Jazz organization really wants to help out this surging fella, they should make sure he only takes one thing from Karl Malone. The mailman's weight-lifting program details. Despite being on the downside of his career Malone is dirtier than we remember. elbows are still flying, the hammering is still there and of course, who can forget the flops of this 6-9 256-pound forward. after getting in a skirmish with Vlade Divac, Malone was focused from then on, on getting Divac out of the game. It was amazing how the referees wouldn't acknowledge that the ringless deliver was the one lunging at Vlade instead of the other way around. Divac racked in 2 unearned fouls and eventually fouled out. Mr Malone we respect your accomplishments, but you have exactly the same number of rings as your game and attitude deserve. American pride??? Today is the second game of the Raptors-Pistons series. In the last game which detroit won 85-63, the Canadian anthem was booed by pistons fans. Needless to say there were plenty of Canadians in the house. The city of Detroit seats just at the U.S-Canada Border. Auburn Hills, Michigan where the Palace is located, is a 45 minute drive away from it. During the booing, which can only be classified as a low class act by the Pistons fans, it would be safe to say the fans weren't boing at the players, but rather whatever the anthem represented - the country. You could play the Devil's advocate and try to find a reason for the conduct but your wouldn't find none related to basketball. On another tip, the following comes after being aware of a certain concensus among Canadians: alot of them think the Raptors' players are Canadians!? Let's get this straight here and now. The Toronto Raptors are a Canadian team but they've never had a Canadian player on their roster in their 6 years of existence. Tracy mcGrady didn't flee home for Florida, he fleed Canada to go back home in Florida The crushing and honest truth? Canada doesn't have enough talented basketball players to be able to field a competent and high-caliber NBA squad. << Back Next >> Back to archive Back to top
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