<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Karl Malone would not normally kill a perfectly good Tuesday evening watching the Los Angeles Clippers. With his team in town, however, he had ample cause to amble over to the Staples Center. It couldn't have been for the basketball. The Clippers recently were mathematically eliminated from playoff contention. The Jazz have not needed a calculator for quite some time to know their fate. "I came for a reason," the NBA's No. 2 all-time scorer said. That was simply to watch the franchise for which toiled 18 seasons, and - more importantly - to show support for a coach who means so much to him. So while the Clippers were busy beating the Jazz 94-85, dropping Utah to 24-53 with just five games to go in its 2004-05 season, Malone shared Jerry Sloan's pain. "Yeah, he needs support," said Malone, who spent one season after leaving Utah with the Los Angeles Lakers, then retired last Feb. 13. "With the way things have been this year, of course he needs support.</div> <div align="center">Link</div>
that's pretty honorable of him. I mean seriously.. how many people were at that game? It couldn't have been too many.
