<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Mehmet Okur and Karl Malone are different in many ways, but they have one major similarity: durability. Okur completed his second season in Utah the same manner he finished his first: with a perfect attendance record. In fact, Okur's consecutive-game streak reached 180 in the season finale, 164 games with the Jazz and 16 in Detroit. That's a long way from John Stockton's franchise record of 609 games, and Malone's personal best of 543. But it's enough to rank eighth among NBA consecutive-game streaks that are still alive, exactly half as long as the current leader, Toronto's Morris Peterson at 360. "I try to play every day. That's what I'm supposed to do," said Okur, the only Jazz player to appear in all 82 games this year. "I haven't been injured, so of course I play. I like to play." Making Okur's streak more impressive is how little time off the 25-year-old gets during the summer. Okur has played for the Turkish national team for the past several summers, and that may be the case again this year. The Turks have tried to convince Okur to compete in the World Championships in Tokyo in August. </div> <div align="center">Source</div>
