At age 38, Karl Malone still has plenty of fun making life miserable for opposing fans.
     
Malone scored 35 points to lead the Utah Jazz to a 103-92 victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers on Monday night ? then poked fun at fans who tried to disrupt his rhythm at the foul line by hooting, hollering and waving white balloons.

"They were vocal, but didn't cross the line," said Malone, who bowed to fans chanting, "Karl, Karl," as he left the game with 41 seconds to play.
     
"It's like the fans are starting to say this guy has been doing this for 17 years, he's not going to do it much longer. I'm allowing myself to have a little more fun."
     
Malone dominated the second half by scoring 23 points as Utah won its fifth straight and improved to 5-2 on its nine-game trip, forced by the Olympics in Salt Lake City. It is the club's longest trip since an 11-game swing in the Jazz's first season of 1974-75.
     
"Everybody is making a big deal of it, but it doesn't matter," Jazz guard Bryon Russell said. "We've got to play on the road anyway."
     
Malone looked right at home ? especially at the foul line, where he made 13 of 16 free throws. He was the key factor in forcing three Cleveland players ? centers Zydrunas Ilgauskas and Chris Mihm, and forward Tyrone Hill ? to foul out.
     
"The only guy who really had a chance against him was Tyrone," Cavs coach John Lucas said. "Karl looked at me like I was nuts whenever I put somebody else in there. I told him, 'That's all I got right now."'