NBA star Karl Malone is known for ‘delivering the mail’. This week, however, the hot topic is the child Malone fathered with a 13-year-old girl named Gloria Bell.To be fair we should mention that at the time of the conception Malone was a teen himself - 19 years old and a college sophomore at Louisiana Tech. Still the age difference qualified the situation for statutory rape charges. Lucky for Malone, the girl's parents decided not to pursue prosecution.
The former Utah Jazz power forward had no contact with the child as he was growing up and still makes no claims to fatherhood. When the two finally met, the basketball star told the 18-year-old Demetrius Bell it was too late for him to be his father, and that Bell would have to “earn his money on his own.”
It seems Bell is poised to do just that, having grown into a full fledged professional athlete like his uninterested father. Unlike Malone though, Demetrius Bell chose the sport of football to make his career, and last week he was sent to the Buffalo Bills in a 7th round NFL draft pick.
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