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Reports: Spurs Are Leading Candidate To Land Malone
Staff and Wire Reports
Wednesday, December 08, 2004

According to several reports- including one that will appear in Wednesday morning's Los Angeles Times- if Karl Malone chooses to play this season, he will most likely sign with the San Antonio Spurs.

Malone has let it be known that he will not play for the Lakers because he is infuriated by comments made publicly and privately to him by Kobe Bryant.

Until last week, Malone had favored a return to the Lakers and his agent had been negotiating to make that scenario a reality, but comments made by Bryant are said to have upset Malone beyond the point of return.

Bryant reportedly indicated during a radio interview, that is was tough for teammates "to be looking over their shoulder, wondering if [Malone]'s going to come back and then everybody is going to disappear."

In addition, Bryant said that "it's not really fair to hold [Malone's situation] over the guys' heads that are here…. They are here giving me 110%…. I mean, you can't sit up here and speculate for the remainder of the season whether or not he is going to come back."

Malone's agent, Dwight ManleyManley, called in to KMPC-AM radio in Los Angeles and said Bryant's comments ended any chance Malone of playing for the Lakers. He added that it was hypocritical of Bryant to call Malone a distraction after the support Malone offered Bryant through his sexual assault case.

"Who needs this?" Manley told host Fred Roggin. "I gave last year by (Malone) coming here. He gave last year by him coming here (signing with the Lakers as a free agent for $1.5 million). Sacrifice, sacrifice, sacrifice.

"Who was the biggest beneficiary of that sacrifice?" Manley continued, referring to Bryant. "What one person got $100-some million to be on this team, to be the darling of everybody?

"Whose arm was put around that person when he was at his low point? It was Karl. He did all that stuff. And I take it personally when somebody that I saw sacrifice so much gets kicked in the pants like that. It's inappropriate."

Said Manley: "Karl is furious and irate and said this is unacceptable... It's pretty obvious with what happened with Phil, Shaq and now Karl, there's a pattern of tearing people down. This was a clear statement.

"Phil's gone and Shaq's gone and let's make sure Karl's gone, too," Manley said. "And (Bryant) can have his whole cake and be the king. Himself. The king of what, I don't know. But he's going to have that. He'll find out."

Malone, who was hunting at his Arkansas ranch Tuesday finally brokes his public silence on the matter with a call from Southern California's largest newspaper.

"As much love as I have for the organization and for its fans, when your star player doesn't want you there, I take hints easily," Malone told The Los Angeles Times. "I want to be there but he doesn't want me there.

"It's not about the Lakers, I love the Lakers. It's about your main guy saying he doesn't want me. I'm a big enough man to understand that, so I'm going to get on with my life, and I've got a great life."

"I didn't come to take anybody's glory, anybody's accolades, anybody's anything," Malone told KCBS-TV in a telephone interview. "But if it seems to me that that is what I'm doing, then I would rather move on and turn the page in my life.

"If that's your star player, you want him to want you on the team, right? I don't want to be anybody's distraction."

Later, in an interview with The Riverside Press-Enterprise (also for Wednesday's editions), Malone said:

"When a star don't want you on a team, I can take a hint. ... I only want to be where, A, I want to be, and B, where someone wants me to be. No more, no less."

According to one source at the Lakers, all negotiations and discussions about Karl's return to Staples Center have stalled.

Manley also said Malone had fully recovered from off-season surgery on his right knee and would decide next month whether to return to the NBA or retire.

The Spurs and T-Wolves have been courting Malone all summer, but earlier public statements by Malone had given the impression that both those teams would no longer be considered, in favor of the Lakers. It appears all of that has now changed.

출처가 espn 같은 메이져 언론이 아닌 spurs report여서 좀 걸리지만, 마냥 뜬 소문만은 아닌 거 같습니다.

올 시즌 레이커스가 플옵에 진출 하기 위해서는 말론이 중요한 키인데 코비가 왜 저런

망언을 했는지는 알 수 없네요.

어쨌든 레이커스 아니면 우승을 할 수 있는 팀으로 가고 싶단 의사를 표했고, 그 우승을 할 수

있는 팀은 스퍼스가 단연 앞서 있다고, 스퍼스 팸이니깐 대 놓고 말씀 드리는 겁니다.-_-;, 생각

하기에 상당히 신빙성이 있어 보입니다.

다만 말론이 있는 팀은 우승 못 한다란 징크스가 제일 걸리며(-_-;) 로즈는 찬밥도 아닌 완전

쉰밥이 되기에 그게 좀 걸립니다. 물론 말론이 오래 뛰어봤자 2년 이상은 못 뛸 걸로 생각이

되나 그 사이 로즈의 가격대비 효율은 갈 수록 떨어지죠.

이러다 정말로 헐값에 트레이드 되는 건 아닌지.-_-;

[삭(MVP지노빌리)]

솔직히 코비가 말론에게 안좋은 말을했다는 말론의 에이전트의 주장은 억지죠. 코비만 억울하게되었다는(ㅜ_ㅜ;;) 어차피 팀을 믿고 FA를 포기했던 게리를 가차없이 처분했던것에서 드러났듯이 팀이나 전당포멤버들이나 선수와의 특별한 유대관계나 팀에 대한 충성&애정보다는 반지라는 철저한 자신들의 이익을 위해서

[삭(MVP지노빌리)]

모였던 만큼 저렇게 해체되는게 더 자연스러운지도 모르겠습니다.(암튼 코비만 또 안티팬들에게 공격받을 건수가 생기거 같아서 씁슬하더군요.)

[別天地]

삭(MVP지노... 님 말씀 대로라면 말론은 정말 추한 짓 다 하고 다니는 거네요. 그런데 라디오 방송의 인터뷰였다니 전혀 없는 얘기를 지어 낸 건 아니란 생각입니다. 다만, 말론은 기달렸던 말을 들은 거고, 바로 행동을 한 거란 생각이 듭니다.

[別天地]

개인적으로 말론은 별로 안 반갑다라는.... 올려면 지난 시즌에 와서 레이커스 전력이나 약화 시키지...-_-;;

[삭(MVP지노빌리)]

추하다고는 생각안합니다.(확대해석은 안되요~.^_^;;;) 프로가 자신의 실익을 추구하는것은 당연한거니깐요. 다만 리그역사에 길이길이 남을 이런 화려한 라인업의 마지막이 이렇게 끝나는게 아쉬울 따름이죠.

[別天地]

자신의 실리를 찾는 것 까진 좋은데, 어린 양(양 치곤 이빨과 발톱이 좀 날카로워서 문제지-_-;)을 밟고 챙기는 건 너무하단 생각이예요.-_-;

[Placebo effect]

선즈팬> 이거.. 참.. 좀 더 지켜봐야 겠지만, 난감한 소식이 아닐수 없네요.. 정녕 말론은 別天地님 말씀대로 명분을 노리고 있었던 걸까요?. 하지만 그가 그런 선택을 하기위해 코비의 말을 문제 삼은건 억지란 생각이 드는군요..--;

[spTDurs)V3]

흑장미문제뿐만 아니라 제독에게 가격했던 기억때문이라도 안왔으면 하는 바램이군요... 그나저나... 판타지에서 말론 영입을 고려해봐야 할 시점인듯...

[김던컨의뱅크샷]

전 로즈를 생각해서 그다지 내키지 않는..-_-; 로즈에게 좀더 출장시간을 달라!!!