Special Delivery: The Amazing Basketball Career of Karl Malone [Paperback]

Clay Latimer (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 1999

When Karl Malone arrived in Salt Lake City in 1985, he couldn't make a free throw, hit a jumper or decipher a game plan. According to his plentiful critics, he lacked the emotional resources and ruthlessness to make himself over into a first-rank power forward.

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing (January 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1886110646
• ISBN-13: 978-1886110649
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.9 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,423,185 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars KARL DELIVERED THIS BOOK DOES NOT, October 7, 2005

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THIS BOOK IS SUPPOSED TO BE ABOUT KARL MALONE NBA SUPERSTAR. BUT ALOT OF THIS BOOK IS SPENT ON THE HISTORY OF THE JAZZ AND MANY OTHERS PLAYERS. IT IS NOT A BAD BOOK BUT NOT WHAT I EXPECTED. OK READ.

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1.0 out of 5 stars If you have never heard of Karl Malone..., January 10, 2001

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This review is from: Special Delivery: The Amazing Basketball Career of Karl Malone (Paperback)

...then this is probably an okay book to get started. Probably more for teenagers. I was in Salt Lake when K.M. was drafted and the then owner of the team had really wanted Keith Lee but the fans gathered at the Salt Palace were happy Malone was still available. Before his name was announced fans were chanting "Mailman, Mailman..." That draft began a long and very good relationship with the Utah fans. Both have benefited greatly from the union. Unfortunately that part of K.M.'s story isn't in the book. Neither are a lot of things you'd like to know, such as the details of Mr. Malone's famous off-season workouts that make his workout partners puke, although it is touched on. I wanted to know how he developed it and who can keep up with him and what else he does to maintain his high durability in the modern game.

Karl deserves better. I met him his rookie year and found out he was a fantastic person, able to handle fame better than most. At that early stage he could make you feel like you were very important - how many rookie NBA players can do that? I've been a huge fan ever since and I don't even like basketball much.

I read the book hoping to see his development into the best power forward of all time and instead I got a bunch on newspaper clippings and vignettes on early NBA thugs. I think there's more to Mr. Malone than that. I think there's more to his development as a player than what I read.

He still hasn't won a championship. Well neither did Barry Sanders, Carl Yastremski, Gale Sayers or even Jerry Sloan. K.M is a great basketball player and an even better person - he deserves a better story than what the book told.