RIP Moses Malone

[USSInsiders]

Allahu Akbar (The One True God is the Greatest)!

alhamdullillah

 

[Slaimon Khan Shah]

alhamdullillah

Na'am. May Allah bless you immensely Akh!

 

[Skooby]

Dawn Staley took this photo with him just yesterday:

 

[wheywhey]

"Malone passed away this morning at the Marriott in Downtown Norfolk where he was staying. He was supposed to participate in the Still Hope Foundation Celebrity Golf Tournament." NBA great Moses Malone passes away in Norfolk at age 60

Says he died in his sleep, so apparently he was in bed. He was found around 8am by hotel staff. My guess is that someone was going to have breakfast with him or drive him to the golf course and they couldn't contact him. No official cause of death, of course, but people are speculating heart attack.

 

[O.G.B]

R.I.P

 

[FAH1223]

 

[mastermind]

RIP to the underrated legend.

 

[mson]

they show a chit-ton of jordan era games tho.

i always just see their selections as the nba forcing their agendas. the same agendas that older basketball heads have been complaining about for the past 25-plus years.

The NBA don't want to show the old NBA games as much anymore because them older games shows plenty examples of bad refereeing, and fixed refereeing. I seen one of them old Bulls/Pistons rivalry games, and the ref blatantly fukked the Bulls out of a regular season win by calling a foul on Jordan that didn't happen. I never seen Jordan so mad in my entire life.

Interesting theory.

 

[mson]

Whoever created that Career Mixtape of Malone's highlights deserves kudos. And that Pete Rock/C.L. Smooth track makes me want to dust off my grade school compact disc collection Thanks for sharing bruh.

Some nikka in the booth had the nerve to call CL Smooth overrated. That's hip hop right there.

 

[Reid2Achieve]

He had to be one of the most underrated players of all time. RIP

 

[Strapped]

may he rip

 

[mson]

Charles Barkley issued a statement about the death of fellow NBA Hall of Famer Moses Malone on Sunday. The two of them were teammates with the Philadelphia 76ers for the first two years of Barkley's career, and the current TNT analyst had this to say about the man who mentored him:



"The man I called 'Dad' passed today. Words can't explain my sadness. I will never know why a Hall of Famer took a fat, lazy kid from Auburn and treated him like a son and got him in shape and made him a player.

Every time I saw him I called him 'Dad.' I hope he knew how much I appreciated and loved him."



When Barkley was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame, he chose Malone and longtime Phoenix Suns owner and executive Jerry Colangelo to present him. With Malone standing onstage, Barkley raved about how the legend helped him as a young player:



"I always tell people the most influential person in my career is Moses because he got me in shape and taught me how to work hard. I asked him early in my rookie year, 'Why am I not getting to play?' After I got over the fat-and-lazy thing -- it took me a little bit to get over that -- he got me in shape. And I always give him great credit for that."



Before and after his playing days, Barkley made no secret of how much Malone meant to him. He was under no obligation to say anything publicly about this yet, but he clearly wanted the world to know where his mind is as the NBA community mourns Malone's deathand remembers his career.

 

[Stuntone]

Rest in Peace to the OG

 

[OC's finest]

RIP

 

[Reggie]

RIP to Moses Malone. One of the greatest and most underrated players ever. Gone entirely too soon.