The NBA Shouldn’t Have Creepy Karl Malone at All-Star Weekend Story:
in Salt Lake City. On the surface, an all-time great participating in All-Star festivities in their former team’s home city makes sense; the league is banking on most fans summing up his presence that way. But in reality, having him there overlooks a past full of abhorrent behavior.
In 1983 a then 20-year-old Malone impregnated his “girlfriend,” 13-year-old Gloria Bell, while playing basketball at Louisiana Tech University. According to Bell, her family declined to press statutorycharges because of his impending NBA fortune — except he then denied paternity of their child, Demetress Bell. Gloria Bell’s family sued Malone, and they settled out of court in a manner that allowed him to not acknowledge that he was the father.
Malone faced another lawsuit from Bonita Ford, who he had Daryl and Cheryl Ford with in 1980. The 19-year NBA vet was held in contempt of court and agreed to another out-of-court settlement. Both Daryl and Cheryl went on to play basketball at Louisiana Tech, with the latter having a 10-year WNBA career, winning three championships with the Detroit Shock.
Karl Malone and John Stockton of the Utah Jazz pause during a break in NBA game action at the Delta Center circa 1997 in Salt Lake City, Utah.The few people in the tenuous position of defending Malone may decry this piece as the product of a “cancel culture mob” who can’t let the past go, but Malone has never so much as publicly acknowledged Gloria or Demetress, probably because the explanation for having sex with a 13-year-old would be even more complicated than his decision to abandon them.
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