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Basketball Hall of Famer Dennis Rodman will be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame, sources told ESPN's Shams Charania on Friday. Rodman, a five-time NBA champion with the Detroit Pistons and Chicago Bulls, has a four-match pro wrestling career, with three of those coming in WCW. He made his WCW debut in 1997 and famously skipped a practice during the 1998 NBA Finals to appear on "WCW Monday Nitro," where he set up a tag team match in which he partnered with Hulk Hogan to face Diamond Dallas Page and Karl Malone.
ESPN Insights: KD drops his 432nd game with 30 PTS to pass Kobe He now trails only Malone (435), Wilt (515), MJ (562) and LeBron (575)
ClutchPoints: Most games with 30+ points by a player in NBA history: 575 — LeBron James 562 — Michael Jordan 516 — Wilt Chamberlain 435 — Karl Malone 431 — Kobe Bryant, KEVIN DURANT (via @NBAonPrime )
Charlie Villanueva: There's only five players in NBA histories with 17,000 points, 10,000 rebounds, 1,500 steals, and a thousand blocks: Hakeem Olajuwon, Karl Malone, Kevin Garnett, LeBron James and Shawn Marion. All those guys are Hall of Famers, except Shawn Marion.
LeBron James began Thursday night's 124-104 win over the Dallas Mavericks with something he had never done before and finished it with something no player his age had ever done. James scored or assisted on the Los Angeles Lakers' first 23 points of the first quarter, his longest such streak to begin a game in his 23-year career, according to ESPN Research. By the end of the night, he had 28 points, 12 assists and 10 rebounds to become the oldest player in NBA history to post a triple-double. At 41 years, 44 days old, he passed Karl Malone (40 years, 127 days) for the record.
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The 41-year-old Lakers star LeBron James’ agent, Rich Paul, recently recorded an episode of his podcast ‘Game Over’ with Max Kellerman and spoke about whether this is James’ last NBA season, and made an eye-opening claim about it. He also addressed LeBron James’ floor right now, which means the least he can contribute to the Lakers, even on a bad day. He compared that to the Jazz veteran Karl Malone, who was second in the league’s history in scoring behind Kareem Abdul-Jabbar before James took over the record from them both a few years ago. “I made a comment before I said that obviously the ceiling is who he is, or who he has been for his career. But the floor is Karl Malone,” said Paul. He went on to explain how efficiently James could produce if he played the same role as Karl Malone did for most of his career, which is setting screens for John Stockton and rolling to the rim.
“You look at that list it’s like, there’s no way,” Harden said earlier this week in Atlanta when asked about his inclusion on a scoring list that includes all-time leader LeBron James, center Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, power forward Karl Malone, power forward Dirk Nowitzki, center Wilt Chamberlain, small forward Kevin Durant, and center Shaquille O’Neal. “There’s no way that I’d get the opportunity to be a part of this list. It’s literally like a dream come true. The work that I literally put in is coming to fruition. So many things that this game has done for me. And I’m sure for all those guys as well, you know what I mean. Those names are still being talked about, you know, post basketball. So it’s literally a dream come true, and it’s an opportunity and honor to be a part of that list.”
The Utah Jazz played 2,155 regular season games since Karl Malone scored 56 points in awin over Golden State on April 7, 1998. No Jazz player had topped the 50-point mark until Lauri Markkanen scored a career-high 51 in a 138-134 win over the Phoenix Suns on Monday night. He became the 97th player to score 50 points in NBA history.
But Jefferson picked ‘The Mailman,’ and his reasoning was rooted in what he called Malone’s “level of professionalism.” “The reason why I would pick Karl Malone over Charles is because of the level of professionalism that Karl Malone always approached,” Jefferson said on his Road Trippin’ pod. “Karl Malone also had a top-five point guard — wherever you want to rank him — in John Stockton next to him.” “So when I look at Karl Malone, with Charles when he was in Philly, he was in and out of shape, and then he would, you know, some of his off-the-court partying that we knew about…I’m saying Charles was a rebel. He’s not a role model. So I’m not taking shots at him. But I’m saying, when you look at a guy like Karl Malone, who trained for eight hours a day, he played for 19 years. He was second in scoring. And if his body would have held up, he probably would have been the all-time leading scorer.”
Byron Scott: Tell us your All-Time starting five, you included, so you got to pick four, so you got to give me a point guard, small forward, power forward, and center. Mitch Richmond: I'm going to go Magic Johnson at point guard. I'm gonna put Michael Jordan at the three. The four… Damn. There’s Karl Malone, Tim Duncan, Charles Barkley… Charles is a little undersized, but Charles was good. And you got Kevin Durant, Kevin Garnett… I'mma go with Kevin Durant cuz we're spreading it out. And then I'mma go Big Shaq at center.
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Layden went 277-294 during the regular season as the Jazz’s head coach. Under Layden, Utah made the playoffs five times, reaching the conference semifinals three times. One of his greatest accomplishments as an NBA executive with the Jazz was drafting Hall of Famers John Stockton and Karl Malone in back-to-back years, turning the franchise into a perennial playoff contender and eventually leading the Jazz to the NBA Finals in 1997 and 1998.
Tom Haberstroh: Jalen WIlliams just did something -- score 40+ in a Finals game -- that the following players have never done: Larry Bird Hakeem Olajuwon Karl Malone Kawhi Leonard Dirk Nowitzki
Jorge Sierra: Only nine players have been to the playoffs more times than James Harden: Karl Malone, John Stockton, Tim Duncan, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, LeBron James, Clifford Robinson, Tony Parker, Shaquille O'Neal, Jason Kidd
Jorge Sierra: MOST TIMES MAKING THE PLAYOFFS 19 - Karl Malone, John Stockton 18 - LEBRON JAMES, Tim Duncan, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar 17 - Tony Parker, Shaquille O'Neal, Jason Kidd, Clifford Robinson