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K.J. Malone's wild ride: How an NBA legend's son almost became a U.S. Marshal

BATON ROUGE, La. -- K.J. Malone almost did not return for his senior season at LSU.

That hardly seems like breaking news, right? Dozens of college football players, including four of Malone’s LSU teammates from 2016, opt to forgo their final year of college eligibility.

What makes Malone’s story unique is that he wasn’t debating whether to leave LSU to enter the NFL draft, as Leonard Fournette and Jamal Adams did. Malone thought about giving up sports altogether to become a U.S. marshal.

“It was pretty close. It started building up during the summertime when all the stuff went down with the cops and all that stuff.