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Among other sports stars receiving settlements were NBA star Moses Malone, who was awarded $155,000, and Dallas Cowboys great Michael Irvin, who received $249,000. Contra Costa Times

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He is the only undrafted player to lead a franchise in career rebounds and is fourth in rebounding among all undrafted players, behind Moses Malone, Ben Wallace and Brad Miller. "There's no hiding it. Everybody knows he's my favorite player and his story is one of the most special stories," Spoelstra said. "It's somebody who came from our own backyard in the toughest of communities in Miami. To not only make it out but then to be an absolute example for young kids to aspire to and to be the core value face of our franchise, it's pretty amazing." USA Today

Miami Heat, Udonis Haslem, Brad Miller, Ben Wallace, Moses Malone 

“They had all kinds of forwards out there,” McHale said. “I think it’s a sad state when you can’t (find) enough centers in our league anymore to fill up the roster. I don’t know if it’s a position-less game. If Moses Malone was playing right now and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Robert Parish, you’d have centers. I don’t know where they went. They went the way of the dinosaur, I think". Houston Chronicle

Houston Rockets, Kevin McHale, Robert Parish, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Moses Malone 

“If you put LeBron James on Moses Malone, everyone would go, ‘What an interesting matchup.’ You do it for a while and LeBron would come over and say, ‘You got to take me off this guy.’ It’s just different. There’s just not a lot of them right now.” Houston Chronicle

Houston Rockets, LeBron James, Kevin McHale, Moses Malone 

Moses Malone has a long resume, and it is difficult to compare him to any young player in the game today. But if anyone has the potential to be what Malone was, it is Kings center DeMarcus Cousins. Already, we have seen some of the downside of Cousins—he has clashed with his coach and been fined by his team several times. When it comes to scowling, he is certainly the equal of Malone. But we also have seen just how talent-laden Cousins is. After averaging 14.1 points and 8.6 rebounds as a rookie, Cousins stepped up his game last year, posting 18.1 points and 11.0 rebounds. Those numbers came despite being limited to 30.5 minutes per game. Cousins blossomed last year after the team fired coach Paul Westphal, with whom Cousins had a nasty locker-room run-in. Keith Smart took over, and Cousins responded well. He has also been working with well-known big-man coach Clifford Ray, who has helped tutor Dwight Howard and Al Jefferson, among others. What strikes Ray, who battled against Malone in the ’70s, about Cousins is how offensively advanced he is already. "He is just scratching the surface really," Ray said. Sporting News

Utah Jazz, DeMarcus Cousins, Moses Malone 

Joey Crawford: Charles Barkley might have been my favorite player to be with on the court. He was one of them at least. Charles used to get a lot of technical fouls, but the thing about Charles was that he didn’t take things personally. The next game was the next game. I always appreciated that about him. Moses Malone was one of the funniest. We were in Denver, I think he was playing with Philly at the time, and that day, a reporter had done a top-10 referee list and my name was in there. So my first call of the night is like a loose-ball foul on Moses, and Moses just turns and says, “That is not a top-10 call.” I had to laugh. New York Times

Charles Barkley, Referees, Moses Malone, Joey Crawford 

It has been 29 years since the 76ers won the franchise's last championship, so on Friday, in a nod to nostalgia, the organization welcomed back members of that 1982-83 team. Julius "Dr. J" Erving, Moses Malone, Bobby Jones, and Earl Cureton attended the Sixers' home opener at the Wells Fargo Center. This resonated with coach Doug Collins, the No. 1 pick in the 1973 draft and an eight-year Sixer. "It's good - it brings to mind championships," said Collins, who became famous in the city for, among other things, tossing alley-oop passes to Erving. "Bobby Jones and I go back to the 1972 Olympics - so, obviously, we got our hearts broken in Munich. I remember playing alongside Julius, trading for Bobby. "It goes back to a great time and a team that set a standard of excellence," Collins continued. "And that's what we aspire to at some point in time. So I think that any time you can bring back former guys who set a kind of standard it's great for our guys to see and for our fans to see." Philadelphia Inquirer

Philadelphia 76ers, Doug Collins, Julius Erving, Moses Malone, Bobby Jones, Earl Cureton 

Last month, when asked about the possibility of seeing his streak for consecutive double-doubles broken by Kevin Love, NBA Hall of Famer Moses Malone responded with a furrowed brow. “I did not even know that was a record until somebody told me the other day,” he said. “Really, when I played, no one ever said ‘double-double.’ If you were a big guy, you just did your job, got your rebounds inside, played defense and scored when you could. Nobody was talking about double-doubles.” Sporting News

Minnesota Timberwolves, Kevin Love, Moses Malone