Malone
Wins Second MVP Award
Karl Malone became the ninth
player in NBA history to win the Maurice Podoloff Trophy twice when the
NBA announced June 2nd that he has been voted as the league's Most Valuable
Player for the 1998-99 season. Malone, who won the award for the 1996-97
season, received 827 points and 44 first-place votes from a panel of sports
writers and broadcasters throughout the United States and Canada. Miami's
Alonzo Mourning, the 1998-99 Defensive Player of the Year, finished second
with 773 points (36 first-place votes) and San Antonio's Tim Duncan finished
third with 740 points (30 first-place votes).
Jazz
front office has full plate
It won't be a quiet summer
for the Jazz franchise as a whole. Utah has seven free agents, including
Karl Malone and hall-of-fame-teammate John Stockton, and the rights to
three first-round draft picks in June. A few players cleaned out their
lockers - Greg Foster and Thurl Bailey, for instance, almost resigned to
the fact that they won't be on the Jazz roster next fall. "It's been a
good run," said Foster, who spent four years with the Jazz after bouncing
around with five different NBA teams and playing in Europe before finding
a home in Utah. "Just being here resurrected my career. I'm just happy
I was a part of it. I'll take a lot of positives away from here."
Utah's Season Ends With Loss vs. Blazers
The Utah Jazz's season ended
on May 27, as they were defeated in the sixth game of their series with
the Portland Trail Blazers. It was a hard fought battle but in the end,
mental mistakes proved to overpower the Jazz's talent and the offensive
and defensive continuity they played with all season long... Please
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