Karl "Mailman" Malone's career had MJ stayed retired?

GOATcards · 11-25-2024, 08:38 PM

He'd join the single-digits number of players with 3 regular season MVP awards, and he'd probably win a title or two (against Reggie's Pacers in '98, possibly without last-minute face plant, or Zo's Heat in '97) and people would have to talk about whether he should be in the all-time top 10 even though he impregnated a 13 year old. He'd still have as many All-NBA selections but there would still be the elephant in the room as it were

just going through these hypothetical scenarios of who wins what titles under what alternative scenarios and whether/how that should affect players' all-time rankings, whatever damning details about their private lives which kill any chance for culture or hobby legacy

is he left out of the top-10 debate just on principle, despite his MVP award shares which might have been slightly inflated in an alternate reality and would be negated by his off-court behavior anyway

11-25-2024, 08:38 PM	#1
GOATcards Member Join Date: Feb 2021 Posts: 6,492	Karl "Mailman" Malone's career had MJ stayed retired? He'd join the single-digits number of players with 3 regular season MVP awards, and he'd probably win a title or two (against Reggie's Pacers in '98, possibly without last-minute face plant, or Zo's Heat in '97) and people would have to talk about whether he should be in the all-time top 10 even though he impregnated a 13 year old. He'd still have as many All-NBA selections but there would still be the elephant in the room as it were just going through these hypothetical scenarios of who wins what titles under what alternative scenarios and whether/how that should affect players' all-time rankings, whatever damning details about their private lives which kill any chance for culture or hobby legacy is he left out of the top-10 debate just on principle, despite his MVP award shares which might have been slightly inflated in an alternate reality and would be negated by his off-court behavior anyway