NBA Notes
Future NBA Hall of Famer Karl Malone decided to retire after 18 seasons with the Utah Jazz and 1 with the Los Angeles Lakers. Malone will end his career without the NBA Championship he had been hoping for. He will also retire as the league's second leading scorer of all-time. During the press conference yesterday he wore a cowboy hat and t-shirt--no word on whether or not anybody asked him "whatchya huntin' cowboy" during the press conference. Memo to "little Mexican girls"...With all this free time Karl Malone now has be careful, because the Mailman is looking for you.

While I'm on the subject of Karl Malone, how badly have things gone for one of his former teams, the Los Angeles Lakers. They're hovering around .500, in danger of not making the playoffs, their coach resigned, and Kobe Bryant hasn't played like the MVP he did while Shaq O'Neal was there taking the pressure off of him the past few years.

The T'Wolves axed Flip Saunders. They replaced him with Kevin McHale, who has no head coaching experience. I loved Sam Cassell when he was with the Milwaukee Bucks, but I think he and Latrell Spreewell are just bringing the T'Wolves down. You think that Cassell and Spreewell, who have been pouting all year because they didn't get the extentions they wanted, are now going to listen to the guy with no head-coaching who wouldn't give them the extentions they wanted?