Karl Malone: Father of the year.

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OL Bell drafted by Bills; puts father Karl Malone behind him

By John Wawrow, AP Sports Writer
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — Demetrius Bell is no longer trying to follow in the footsteps of his father - basketball great Karl Malone - after the two-sport college athlete was drafted by the Buffalo Bills on Sunday.

Nor does the swingman-turned-offensive lineman care whether "The Mailman" notices.

The two have been estranged for most of Bell's life. And Bell, who switched from basketball to football three years ago at Northwestern State University, doesn't expect that to change after he was selected with the 219th overall pick.

"I wouldn't say it's disappointing. All of that's behind me now," Bell said when asked if it mattered that he couldn't share the achievement with Malone. "I feel good I made it this far. Nothing against him."

Bell, the son of Gloria Williams, was 18 when he first made contact with Malone, according to the notes provided by the NFL. At the time, Malone told Bell that, "It was too late for him to be his father and that Bell would 'earn his money on his own,"' the NFL notes said.

Malone could not be reached for comment. As for Bell, he's happy to have made it this far on his own.

"Nothing against him, but I feel good at this time. If he would've been there, yeah, it would've been good. But if not, it's even better," said Bell, also the half brother of WNBA Detroit Shock forward Cheryl Ford. "Everything's a plus right now."

Bell has bigger things on his mind now, especially catching up on the late start of a football career and making the Bills roster.

"Young at football, but willing to work hard," said Bell, who started all 22 games for the Demons over the past two seasons.

Bell also was a member of the Northwestern State basketball team that beat Iowa in the 2006 NCAA tournament.

"I have no doubt that I can make it," said Bell, who's listed at 6-foot-5 and 303 pounds. "I know that once I get there and get on a weight program ... I know I'll be all right."

Chief scout Tom Modrak said the Bills took a calculated gamble on Bell, believing he has the potential to develop into an NFL-caliber player based on his athleticism and well aware of his solid bloodline.

"In this case we're projecting a little bit deeper and a little bit farther," Modrak said. "We have to be patient and hope it comes sooner rather than later, but we know it's not going to be an instant start with him."
 
..this dude is a Rockets fan and REALLY doesn't like Karl Malone

Karl Malone: Father of the Year

Karl Malone's powerful man juice has now spread beyond the world of professional basketball and into the world of professional football. It's widely known that one of former NBA great Karl Malone's bastard children is budding WNBA superstar Cheryl Ford (who was born the same year as his daughter with his current wife), but now the world will get to know another creation of Karl Malone's super DNA, new Buffalo Bills offensive lineman Demetrius Bell.

Unfortunately for Bell, he didn't get the chance to reconnect with his dead-beat father like Ford did. While Ford currently enjoys a dad-daughter relationship with Malone, Bell tried to connect with Karl and got this response:

"It was too late for him to be his father and that Bell would 'earn his money on his own,'"

Damn Karl, that's cold. Besides playing football at a reasonably high level, Demetrius was a decent ballplayer too, taking Northwestern State to the NCAA tournament in 2006 and beating Iowa. He also shares his father's proclivity for finely trimmed beards. I guess Karl didn't think he was was enough of a prospect to earn his attention or something?

Maybe he should have tried to contact him before he was 18 like Ford did so he could get some child support money...or maybe he had the mistake of being conceived while Karl Malone was actually married to his current wife? Oops, tough luck kid...don't try to take no money from the Mailman now. You earn that on your own since you're an adult, no child support for you son. Good thing you got into the NFL, boy.

Either way, Karl Malone, for your promiscuity and your blatant disregard for the holy sacrament of marriage, the use of birth control, and the responsibility for the care of all of your children (even the ones you want to forget about) you sir, deserve to be nominated for father of the year. The Deuce's hat is off to you Karl, but really, true congratulations goes out to Demetrius Bell for making it to the pros without any of that asshat's help.
 
..next time a dickhead jumps on Dwight Howard for having a baby out of wedlock, remember this: Dwight is t6aking care of his kid while Karl...

Demetrius Bell gets genetics and nothing else from Karl Malone

By MJD

In the seventh round of yesterday's NFL Draft, the Buffalo Bills selected a fellow named Demetrius Bell. It wasn't a pick that sent shockwaves through the draft or anything, as Bell played tackle for the scrappy little Northwestern State Demons, who went 4-7 last year as members of the division 1-AA (or whatever they call it now) Southland Conference.

The only interesting thing about the pick is that Bell is the offspring of NBA great Karl Malone. I hesitate to say "son," because that implies some sort of relationship between the two, and Karl Malone, according to Demetrius, was pretty adamant that no such relationship exist.

The two have been estranged for most of Bell's life. And Bell, who switched from basketball to football three years ago at Northwestern State University, doesn't expect that to change after he was selected with the 219th overall pick.

"I wouldn't say it's disappointing. All of that's behind me now," Bell said when asked if it mattered that he couldn't share the achievement with Malone. "I feel good I made it this far. Nothing against him."

Bell, the son of Gloria Williams, was 18 when he first made contact with Malone, according to the notes provided by the NFL. At the time, Malone told Bell that, "It was too late for him to be his father and that Bell would 'earn his money on his own,"' the NFL notes said.

He's right, 18 years old probably is too late. The average male life expectancy in the United States is only about 75 years, and really, how much can you accomplish in a mere 57 years? Karl might as well not even bother. What's he going to get out of it, anyway? A couple of ties on Father's Day? No thanks. Raise yourself, kid.

It kind of makes sense, though. The Mailman, as any mailman does, finds his destination, makes a deposit, and continues on with his route. His job is merely to inseminate the mailbox with letters. It's not his job to hang around and read them to you. I get it.:lol:

As for Bell, the scouting report on him says that he needs to add size and upper-body strength. Given his father's freakishly jacked physique, I'm going to guess that that won't be a problem.
 
The Mailman always delivered

By Bob Carter
Special to ESPN.com

Updated: June 4, 2007, 5:47 PM ET

"I know you're not supposed to hate people, but I just hated him because we didn't ask to be here. And we were here and he didn't want to have anything to do with us," says Cheryl Ford, whom Karl Malone didn't acknowledge as his daughter until she was 17, on ESPN Classic's SportsCentury series.

The main events played themselves out on winter evenings in large NBA arenas. Karl Malone against the best power forwards the opposition could throw at him, games that Malone and his Utah Jazz usually won.

The prelims came in the suffocating summer heat, in the training sweatbox of Louisiana and Arkansas, Malone working that marvelous body into shape. While Malone ran, pounded the stair climber and lifted weights, his rivals often skimped on the prelims, taking time off to golf or travel or & heaven forbid, merely rest.

"I can do something physically the other guy can't," Malone said. "I know the other guy has not dedicated himself the way I did."

Who could outwork the "Mailman," a 14-time All-Star Game selection whose desire was to play all 48 minutes and all 82 games?

Coaches trimmed him a bit on the minutes, but Malone got in his games -- all but 10 in his 18 seasons with the Jazz -- as he and All-Star point guard John Stockton became a Salt Lake City staple: "Malone the basket & Stockton the assist."

Some said Malone trained so hard because he was always fighting for respect. Malone himself said he feared failure, feared not keeping up, especially as he grew older.

Those who faced him knew only that Malone, who retired as the NBA's No. 2 scorer with 36,928 points and No. 6 rebounder with 14,968 boards, represented an intimidating force, a unique challenge.

"Every play, every rebound," said the Lakers' James Worthy, "you are going to have to go harder than you would go against anybody else in the league."

Malone had 10.5 percent body fat as an undeveloped rookie in 1985, under 5 percent for most of his career. He had massive arms and legs on a 6-foot-9, 256-pound frame, with the strength to play inside, the shooting ability to roam outside and the speed to beat other forwards down the floor. He competed tenaciously, elbows flying, some opponents calling his play dirty.

The league had never seen such a package. "His first three steps out of the block were the quickest of anybody's in the league," said Pat Riley. "He just exploded out of the lane."

Malone, an All-NBA first-team selection for 11 straight seasons, averaged 25 points and 10.1 rebounds. He won two MVP awards, was voted to the All-Defensive team three times, twice was the MVP of the All-Star Game and played on two gold medal-winning Olympic teams. In 1996, he was chosen as one of the 50 greatest players in NBA history.

The youngest boy of nine children, Malone was born on July 24, 1963 in tiny Summerfield, La., and grew up on a farm. His mother, Shirley, ran a forklift at a local sawmill, and often worked two or three jobs. His father, Shedrick Hay, was married and raising another family. Hay committed suicide when Malone was 14, a tragedy he kept from the public until 1994.

As a youngster, Malone chopped trees, baled hay, fished, hunted and sometimes stirred mischief with his brother Terry, riding neighbors' hogs like horses and shooting out windows with BB guns. "If we didn't get a whupping, we just couldn't sleep at night," Malone joked.

He was a standout player at Summerfield High School, which he helped to three straight Class C state titles (1979-81).

Malone was recruited by Arkansas coach Eddie Sutton, but went to Louisiana Tech, about 40 miles from home. When he learned his grade-point average was too low to play his first year, he improved his grades in college so that he would be eligible in 1982.

He led Tech to 74 wins and two NCAA Tournament appearances in three seasons, an all-Southland Conference selection each year. Playing for defensive-minded Andy Russo, he averaged 18.7 points and 9.3 rebounds. In his junior season the Bulldogs went 29-3 and advanced to the NCAA Sweet 16.

He left early for the NBA in 1985, with Utah drafting him No. 13 in the first round, behind such players as Benoit Benjamin, Jon Koncak and Joe Kleine. Malone wasted little time showing he should have been a higher pick. He made the all-rookie team, averaging 14.9 points and 8.9 rebounds despite shooting .481 on free throws.

The next season he set a standard for preseason conditioning and hiked his scoring average to 21.7, the first of 17 consecutive years of 20-plus. His foul shooting climbed to .598.

By the third season, his average skied to 27.7, he sank 70 percent of his foul shots and he appeared in his first All-Star Game. The next two seasons, he averaged 29.1 points and a personal-best 31.

"He's built on his game every year," Stockton said. "He could have stayed pat where he was after his third year. Every year he found another way to hurt a team. That's his legacy."

Malone improved his passing, too, finding open teammates when opponents double-teamed him down low. His only significant weakness was an inability to create shots off the dribble, and he got plenty of help there from Stockton, the NBA's all-time assist leader. The pair brought new appreciation to the old pick-and-roll.

Try as they might, the two stars couldn't bring the Jazz a championship. Utah had a winning record in each of Malone's 18 seasons there and made the playoffs every year. But it went 85-87 in the postseason, gaining the Finals twice and losing both times to Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls 4-2.

An outdoorsman, Malone settled nicely into Salt Lake City, the smallest NBA market. Though other African-American athletes had found the city and its lack of racial diversity uncomfortable, Malone had few problems. "It didn't bother me," he said in 1988. "I grew up in a home where color meant absolutely nothing."

Malone rode motorcycles to games, fly-fished, ran car dealerships and did charity work. He and wife Kay, a former Miss Idaho USA whom he married in 1990, had four children, the family living in a $5-million house in the nearby mountains.

His reputation took a hit in 1998 when it was revealed he had been involved in two paternity suits involving women from back home in Louisiana, both cases being settled out of court. Blood test analysis set the probability that Malone was the father of Demetrius Bell at 99.3 percent. He acknowledged that twins Cheryl and Daryl Ford were indeed his. The twins played basketball at Louisiana Tech, with Cheryl going on to become the WNBA Rookie of the Year with the Detroit Shock in 2003.

As time went on, Malone squabbled with ownership over contracts, received occasional suspensions for rough play and criticized teammates for what he saw as poor conditioning. But he performed at an amazingly consistent level, his scoring average never falling below 20 points except for his rookie year and a final, injury-slowed season with the Lakers (13.2).

He averaged 27.4 points and 9.9 rebounds in 1996-97 when he led Utah to a franchise-record 64 wins and won his first MVP award. Two years later, in a strike-shortened season, he won the award again as Utah went 37-13.

Malone expressed disappointment over his play in the two Finals against Chicago and looked forward to one day winning a title in Utah. The team never made it back, though, and he and Stockton left after the 2002-03 season. Stockton retired and Malone, a free agent, signed with the Lakers, taking a pay cut of $17.8 million for a shot at a ring.

"Let him chase his dream," Jazz owner Larry Miller said. "He's entitled to it."

A knee injury forced the 40-year-old to miss 40 regular-season games and limited him in the 2004 playoffs. The Lakers, despite the presence of Shaquille O'Neal, Kobe Bryant and Gary Payton, were upset by Detroit in the Finals.

Malone didn't play the next season and announced his retirement on Feb. 13, 2005, just 1,459 points behind Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. "All records," Malone said, "are not made to be broken."
 
Fuck Karl Malone! Me and some friends was at this Latech football game. we saw Karl Malone around his group of white friends at his trailer. my dawg was a fan of his so he went to say whats up. Karl Malone straight disrespected him. didnt een want to shake dude hand at a fuckin barbecue. said dude wasnt college material becuse they way that he dressed....fuckin jeans and a t shirt at a football game? I was like damn...
 
tp2001 said:
Who criticized Howard on his child out of wedlock?

And I hated Karl Malone anyway
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There was a whole post dedicated to him being fucked up dude and a hypocrite for getting a Orlando Magic cheerleader knocked up.

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He manned up and is taking care of the baby, but people *cough*blunt*cough* said he wasn't a real man because he didn't marry her.
 
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