Rose spoke to his father for the first time nine years ago, but he was fortunate in the sense that when his father played, the NBA wasn't as popular as it is now, and Walker didn't have the same distinguished career as Malone.
I had to realize that was God's plan for me. I was healthy and happy, and it wasn't like I was living under some freeway. Bell says he has nothing to prove to Malone, although no one could blame him if he secretly wanted to show up his old man. I asked Bell what he would do if his father called him up one day, ready to be what he's never been. Absentee father certainly isn't the image most have of Malone -- especially in Summerfield and Salt Lake City, where he's revered.
In fact, in Utah governor Mike Leavitt presented Malone and his wife, Kay, with a special declaration to "commend and thank Kay and Karl Malone for their incredible service, friendship, and generosity to the state of Utah. It makes his apparent reluctance to be a father to Bell that much more astounding, especially when you consider that Malone also grew up fatherless.
Malone's father committed suicide when he was 3. A decade ago, Malone and his wife -- with whom he has fathered four children -- spoke at a conference on families and talked openly about the children Malone has fathered outside of their marriage. Malone told the audience: "Everything I've been through, everything I'm about to go through in my career and my life, if my family wasn't with me and didn't support me, it would be really tough.
ESPN null. Karl Malone falls short, as a father. Being a parent to so many kids has got to be as difficult a challenge as dominating the court. Which basketball player do you think is the best father?
Kids include: Juwan Howard Jr. Lockhart: Kenneth Anderson Jr. Karl Malone. Scottie Pippen. Shaquille O'Neal. Photo: Jason H. Michael Jordan. Dwight Howard. Dominique Wilkins. Dominique Wilkins is rumored to have at least seven children with an unknown number of women. Shawn Kemp. Malone first met the twins, Daryl and Cheryl i n the summer of , the year they turned 17 -- the age at which he fathered them. Cheryl and Daryl, both basketball stars at their high school were stunned. His daughter Cheryl would later recall with some bitterness watching her father receiving an accolade on TV, being extolled as a devoted family man, knowing that she and her brother had been abandoned.
She noted :. Cheryl, now 38, is a basketball star in her own right, and a three-time winner of the WNBA championship and was selected to represent the US at the World Championships in Brazil. Daryl Ford was also a basketball player, but unfortunately, although he was a good athlete, he wasn't as gifted as his sister, who inherited his father's devastating style and ability.
Daryl was cast in the deep shade, swallowed up by the shadows of his father and his sister. Malone revealed in Although Daryl did play college basketball at Louisiana Tech, he lacked that spark that makes a champion.
His father was supportive and encouraged him to finish his degree regardless. He said :. But there was yet another secret child lurking in Malone's past, and this time the story was a little more complex. He shared a son, Demetress Bell , with Gloria Bell, a neighbor's daughter, who was just 13 at the time of his birth. The then year-old Malone was on his way to fame and fortune, and he left his child and the young mother behind.
Malone himself had grown up in a dysfunctional family. His own father had another family and paid Malone and 8 older siblings little attention.
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