Former NBA Player, Director of Basketball Promotions at Louisiana Tech
Fast Facts
Nicknamed "the Mailman
" Selected 13th overall by the Utah Jazz in the 1985 NBA draft
Half of a famous Jazz tandem with John Stockton, who was drafted in 1984
13-time All-Star; named NBA MVP in 1997 and strike-shortened 1999
Part of the 1992 U
S
Olympic basketball team, dubbed the Dream Team, which was the first Olympic team fielded by the U
S
that included NBA players
Jersey No
32 retired in Utah, as well as at his alma mater, Louisiana Tech
Elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2010 along with the Dream Team as a whole
The Jazz immortalized Malone and Stockton with side-by-side statues outside the EnergySolutions Arena, and renamed sections of the roads where the arena and statues stand as the intersection of Karl Malone and John Stockton Drives