Mailman Delivers on Hall of Fame Speech, Pippen as Well

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SPRINGFIELD, Mass. -- Karl Malone vowed he wasn't going to cry.



It was one of the few times in basketball the Mailman wasn't able to deliver.



"I said two things," Malone had said Friday hours before his evening induction into the Basketball Hall of Fame. "I don't want to talk long and I don't want to cry. So I'm leaving my mom to the end. If not, I'll be sniffing the whole time."



Yes, Malone did leave his mother, Shirley Turner, who died exactly seven years earlier on Aug. 13, 2003 due to a heart attack, to the end. But he still sniffed the whole time.



In fact, the burly power forward, who usually left opponents in tears, was crying from the very second he stepped to the podium at Springfield's Symphony Hall.

 

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