The Utah Jazz played 2,155 regular-season games since Karl Malone scored 56 points in a win over Golden State on April 7, 1998. No Jazz player had topped the 50-point mark in a regular-season contest until Lauri Markkanen scored a career-high 51 in a 138-134 win over the Phoenix Suns on

Michael Jordan didn’t believe in load management, even when he was violently ill.

Michael Jordan, a petty, passive-aggressive ironman who generally tried to play 82 regular-season games (out of pride) during his career in an era of the NBA where players did not nearly have to move ...