In the p>1997～1998 NBA regular season, he took Admiral Robinson to the hospital as soon as he lifted his elbow. In the second round of the playoffs, he kicked Robinson's ankle again. Malone elbowed Robinson in the NBA, only fined him $1, and suspended him for one game, and said Malone didn't mean it. So people believed it. Unexpectedly, this seems to encourage Malone. The referee didn't even give a foul for his "extra" kick at Robinson. Robinson was very angry after the game. He said, "It's an unbearable dangerous move, and it's not the first time he's done it, but the referee hasn't even convicted a foul. I don't know what they do for a living!" In this way, the Spurs were swept out by the Jazz.

Then Malone knocked Buckley, who had been looking for the championship ring for 14 years, to the ground. After seeing Buckley's injury, the doctor diagnosed Buckley as a "muscle tear". In the end, Buckley wore a suit and watched from the sidelines how Malone shattered his hope of wearing a championship ring. The NBA has discussed Malone's "iron elbow" for this reason, but karl malone's statement about his elbow is similar to Sprewell's statement of "pinching the coach's neck", which means that the injured player is not strong enough. The most famous incident of Malone's iron elbow was in 1992, when Thomas, the "smiling assassin", was chopping points on stockton's head. Suddenly, a big truck came out in front of him and knocked Thomas to the ground with a crash. Slow-motion replay, it turned out that Malone was fighting out. I saw him suddenly shrink his raised arm (as if to say oh Yeah! The gesture), the elbow firmly hit Thomas's eyebrow frame. At that time, the Pistons were all a group of unruly masters, and a group of Pistons immediately surrounded them and finally got away. In retrospect, the victims of Malone's iron elbow are still "little people": people like Nash and Thomas. Occasionally, the big guy is also a devout Christian type like Robinson, and the thrilling one is with new york fat man Hotel Harrington. Malone stared at Harrington, who came up defiantly, and didn't dare to start work. He didn't give a fist until someone turned around. So Malone's reputation was really bad in those years.

All people will never forget the scene when Malone struck David Robinson into a concussion with his iron elbow and was admitted to the hospital. Before Robinson, Thomas, the "smiling assassin", had 4 stitches, and other celebrities who fell under his elbow included Buckley, Grant and Nash. Dallas media once called Malone "Dr. Iron Elbow". At the same time, his good partner, John stockton, always uses his elbow gestures to gain space for himself, and his actions are more hidden, so that many people can't find a referee to defend themselves after being injured.