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If they wouldn't lift, they wouldn't play for Karl Malone."</P> <P><U>On his teammates:</U> "The guys on this Jazz team mean everything to me.&nbsp; They've made it a pleasure to go to work every day."</P> <P align=center><STRONG>MALONE BY THE NUMBERS</STRONG></P> <P align=left><STRONG>33: </STRONG>Age, oldest NBA player to win MVP honors.</P> <P align=left><STRONG>26.1:</STRONG> Career scoring average.</P> <P align=left><STRONG>7:</STRONG> Average scoring rank among players with 10,000 points or 400 games.</P> <P align=left><STRONG>25,592:</STRONG> Career points scored.</P> <P align=left><STRONG>10:</STRONG> All-time scoring rank in the NBA.</P> <P align=left><STRONG>10,542:</STRONG> Career rebounds.</P> <P align=left><STRONG>5:</STRONG> Players, including Malone, who have scored 25,000 points and grabbed 10,000 rebounds.</P> <P align=left><STRONG>12:</STRONG> Players taken before Malone in the NBA draft.</P> <P align=left><STRONG>980:</STRONG> NBA games played.</P> <P align=left><STRONG>4:</STRONG> Games he has missed.</P> <P align=left><STRONG>467:</STRONG> Consecutive games played.</P> <P align=left><STRONG>48.1: </STRONG>Free-throw % as a rookie.</P> <P align=left><STRONG>77.8:</STRONG> Career free-throw %.</P> <P align=left><STRONG>71:</STRONG> Times he led the team in scoring last season.</P> <P align=left><STRONG>2:</STRONG> Olympic Gold Medals won.</P> <P align=left><STRONG>3:</STRONG> Children: Kadee Lynn, Kylee Ann, and Karl Jr. </P> <P align=left><STRONG>$4,500,000:</STRONG> Malone's salary.</P> <P align=left><STRONG>3: </STRONG>Class C Louisiana State Championships won while Karl played for Summerfield High School 1979-80-81.</P> <P align=left><STRONG>9:</STRONG> Second youngest of nine children, Karl first started shooting baskets when his mother fashioned a hoop by cutting the metal rim off a water barrel.</P> <P align=left><STRONG>1:</STRONG> First year at Louisiana Tech spent pulling his grades up to get eligible.</P> <P align=left><STRONG>1,000:</STRONG> Times he repented for his grades before he became a good student at college.</P> <P align=left><STRONG>15:</STRONG> Hours worked per day loading hay as a boy.</P> <P align=left><STRONG>10:</STRONG> Cents a bale h