NBA: This flower path is a bit strong

The Utah Jazz was founded in New Orleans in 1974 and moved to Salt Lake City in 1979.

After struggling for the first few years, the Jazz began to become a regular in the playoffs in the 1980s.

From 1983 to 2002, the Jazz's regular season win rate exceeded 50% every year. What a concept.

Comparing the Suns and Timberwolves, who made the playoffs in the West this season, these two teams ranked 6th and 7th in the West, but both had 40 wins and 42 losses in the regular season, with a win rate of less than 50%.

Even the Los Angeles Clippers coached by Bill Fitch only had a win rate of 43.9% this season, but they were able to enter the playoffs even so.

So the Utah Jazz, who have a win rate of more than 50% for 19 consecutive years, naturally made it to the playoffs for 19 consecutive years.

And the Jazz in 1997 and 1998 will be the strongest Jazz in history!

In the past two years, they have made it to the finals twice, but lost to the Bulls twice, becoming the most tragic team in the second three consecutive championships of [Old Rogue].

Their core player, Karl Malone, is also the most tragic "hero" in history who lost to [Old Rogue] after Ewing.

Speaking of Karl Malone, the most classic is Pierce's saying "The postman doesn't work on weekends", and then the league's "postman" missed two free throws and missed a great opportunity.

Karl Malone, who has one of the most perfect bodybuilding bodies in NBA history and has strong confrontation ability, nicknamed [Postman], it is hard to imagine that he was still a player with poor confrontation ability in his rookie season.

But it only took one offseason for him to reduce his body fat rate from 10.5% to 4.8%, and finally got the most perfect bodybuilding body in NBA history.

(Popularize Karl Malone's training items: including but not limited to weightlifting, running, jumping stairs, running against the wind with a parachute on his back, climbing over the tires of heavy trucks, etc.)

With a good body, the ability to confront and the dimension are high! After the bird season, Karl Malone began his 12-year long [20+10] data.

Although Duncan, Garnett and others entered the league in the 1990s, in the eyes of the media, Barkley and Karl Malone are still the most powerful power forwards in the 1990s.

Compared with Barkley at the end of his peak, Karl Malone, who is also 33 years old, really lives up to the name of [Postman]!

From 1985 to 1998, Karl Malone's attendance rate was above 99% every season, and he did not miss more than 2 games.

In the 98-99 season, after a short absence of half of the regular season due to injury, he started four consecutive years of full attendance (80+ appearances in each regular season). You must know that in 1997, he was already 34 years old.

When he was 40 years old, he still maintained full attendance!

So what are his averages?

Except for his rookie season and the last season (41 years old Lakers F4 period), the other regular season data averaged more than 20 points per game!

A 40-year-old man was fully present, averaging 20+ points per game in the regular season!

LeBron James: Salute to the predecessors!

Such a superstar who holds 2 regular season MVPs, 11 first team, 3 first defense, ranks second in the historical total scoring list, and ranks sixth in the total rebounding list. Karl Malone, who will be 34 years old in a few months this season, is at the peak of his career.

As for the reason, it is naturally in the last offseason, Karl Malone practiced a mid-range shot, and his ability to face the basket reached the top height this season.

In the pick-and-roll with Stockton, he either cuts inside or hits a mid-range shot, just like taking something out of a bag!

There are many origins between Karl Malone and Hanamichi.

It is no secret that the Utah duo tried to trick the team's head coach Jerry Sloan into recruiting Hanamichi to Salt Lake City last season.

Karl Malone even praised Hanamichi in front of the media more than once.

Just like Olajuwon praised O'Neal in front of the media more than once!

Therefore, many fans regard it as inheritance:

The inheritance of the center position: Olajuwon to O'Neal.

The inheritance of the power forward position: Karl Malone to Hanamichi.

When fans talk about Karl Malone and Hanamichi, they can't avoid the two pairs of elbows.

Some people even speculate that Hanamichi's [Iron Elbow] is Karl Malone, who was taught by his master.

This season, this is the first confrontation between the two teams' elbows!

After the warm-up, the starting players of the two teams stood near the center line.

The starting players of the Jazz team are:

Center ~ Greg Foster, 211cm, 109kg;

Power forward ~ Karl Malone, 206cm, 116kg;

Small forward ~ BryantEn Russell, 201cm, 102kg;

Guardian ~ John Stockton, 185cm, 75kg;

Guardian ~ Jeff Hornacek, 191cm, 86kg.

The Raptors still have Hua Dao + Charles Oakley + Das + Doug Christie + Walter Williams.

During the jump ball, Hua Dao even felt that the black-boiled egg-headed man on the opposite side looked at him with eyes full of admiration for men.

"Flower, come to our Salt Lake City."

"It only takes one Kun year, and I will train you to be a muscular tough guy like me!"

As he said, Karl Malone made a signature move of a bodybuilding champion.

"When I get old, you will be the next leader of the Jazz!"

Everyone was shocked when this was said!

"No, I refuse!"

Hua Dao refused without hesitation.

If he hadn't known that Karl Malone still had about 5 years of "peak period", he might have agreed to it.

"Why?"

Karl Malone was obviously very surprised that Hua Dao would reject it without hesitation, after all, this condition was very attractive.

Even John Stockton showed a surprised expression.

"Because I hate to become a muscle man!"

Karl Malone looked incredulous:

"No, this is not the real reason."

"Isn't it that every man pursues to have a beautiful muscle?"

"There must be other reasons!"

When Hua Dao saw that no one believed him, he had to say casually:

"Because I will fight for the position of leader myself!"

"You don't need to appoint me!"

After this, everyone was speechless.

It was not until the referee signaled to prepare for a jump ball that Karl Malone came back to his senses and showed his elbow, and John Stockton also moved his knuckles.

"Then we have to see how much weight you have!"