Utah Jazz great Karl Malone was known as “The Mailman”, delivering the goods no matter what day it was.

In a similar fashion, Josh Smith should be known as “Return to Sender.” He will undoubtedly return even insured packages right back to the one sending it.

Mr. Smith just reached an impressive milestone by becoming the youngest player in NBA history to accumulate 1,000 blocks.

He did it at the ripe young age of 24 years and 59 days.

The original record was set by the former Los Angeles Clippers center Benoit Benjamin, at 25 years and 128 days old.

J-Smoove is currently the 2^nd best shot blocker, behind Dwight “Superman” Howard.

By the way did I mention “Return to Sender” took the record with ease, smacking away 1,000 attempts quicker than any other player rejected 900.

Nenad Krstic of the Oklahoma City Thunder deserves a little bit of credit. He was the one that eagerly offered the shot that was thrown right back in his face.

Oh wait, that’s not a good thing.

Well, at least he will get publicity from it. As the old saying goes there is no such thing as bad publicity.

Josh Smith has swatted 4 plus blocks in 10 of the Hawks’ 48 games so far, and has turned back at least 3 attempts in 6 more games. There have only been 3 games where he didn’t get a block, but one those 3 nights he compiled 8 steals.

A key factor in the Atlanta Hawks November 7^th blowout win against the Denver Nuggets 125-100 at home, was the season-high 6 blocks from the swat machine.

Denver coach George Karl admitted, “Josh Smith had an incredible game. We didn’t respect his shot blocking.”

That says it all right there. Teams and players have to respect his monstrous shot blocking presence, or they pay for it.

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