Then SI’s Jackie MacMullan wrote the following piece for her March 19 column: Headline: “The Jazz Master” Subhead: “Malone is playing like an MVP—not that anyone has noticed.” First sentence: “Jazz forward Karl Malone knows Michael Jordan will win the league MVP trophy again.” You get the idea. You can’t blame Jackie for looking for a cute angle—she spent about 800 words talking about how underappreciated Malone was over the years.
