Utah Jazz legend Karl Malone is a divisive man in the NBA sphere these days. His actions as a college student are well known to many people, and his behavior toward the subsequent children he fathered painted him in a very negative light. Then there were the comments at the NBA All-Star game in Utah where he refused to acknowledge or take responsibility for anything he’s done.
So it’s not surprising that there are few men in the history of the Utah Jazz who curry such unique and differing reactions as Malone. Some people feel his fathering of a child with a teenage girl when he was in college was unforgivable, others are able to separate the art from the artist, so to speak.