Mourning Retires from the NBA

[Chief]

Link (http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/print?id=3852288&type=story)

Thursday, January 22, 2009
Mourning retires from NBA
Associated Press

MIAMI -- Alonzo Mourning has decided to retire rather than mount another NBA comeback at age 38.

The seven-time All-Star center said Thursday he won't return from a devastating leg injury in 2007. He's not under contract but had been working out at the Miami Heat's complex and still had a spot in the team's locker room.

Mourning hasn't played since tearing the patella tendon and quadriceps muscle in his right leg on Dec. 19, 2007, the fourth anniversary of his lifesaving kidney transplant.

In 15 seasons, Mourning averaged 17.1 points and 8.5 rebounds and twice was chosen NBA defensive player of the year. He averaged 6.0 points and 3.7 rebounds in 25 games last season for the Heat.

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Well what a career eh, I will remember him most from pairing up with Larry Johnson in Hornets, then with Johnson and Mourning having Friction, Mourning traded to the heat where there were several rivalry fights between him and johnson and other members of the new york knicks.

fXRobvdrdlw

[lefty]

I thought he already did

[lil_penny]

Zo you will be missed

[ManuTP9]

:toast

[lefty]

The guy played to win every single night.

Best shot-blocker I've ever seen

[z0sa]

He tore his shit up on the 4 year anniversary of his transplant? Sucks. He had a great NBA career and ultimately won his ring, I guess that's all that really matters.

[Chief]

He tore his shit up on the 4 year anniversary of his transplant? Sucks. He had a great NBA career and ultimately won his ring, I guess that's all that really matters.

It's alway's weird when players get hurt or retire on some sort of anniversary or place of importance.

I believe barkley got his career ending injury while his team was playing Philadelphia I think.

"In his final year in the NBA, Barkley's season and career ended prematurely at the age of 36 after rupturing his left quadriceps tendon on December 8, 1999 in Philadelphia, where his career began."

[JamStone]

Good. Fuck him.

[Ghazi]

Fuck Zo

[mogrovejo]

Great player. Broke my heart in his rookie year:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbpSaz15PDI

[Flo-Rida]

Damn... Zo really steeped up when it counted especially when we beat the pistons and the mavs in the 06 ECF and Finals. I will never ever forget what he did with the heat. Damn he had so much passion for the game. good luck the rest of the way Zo.

[Findog]

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3329/3218836926_46fb31c654_o.gif

[Findog]

He was the kind of idiot that would do a fist pump for a successful inbounds pass. I hope everything works out with his kidney, but he was a fucking douche out on the court.

[JamStone]

The Nets and the Raptors will never forget how he screwed each of those franchises as well.

Respect how he came back from his kidney illness. He did play the game hard. And, he did do community work like 90% of the rest of NBA players.

But he was a major asshole and fucking douche on the court. Seriously, good riddance. You should have retired like 7 years ago when you first got that kidney problem instead of stringing it out like this to get all the "oh he's such a warrior" praise.

[Flo-Rida]

The Nets and the Raptors will never forget how he screwed each of those franchises as well.

Respect how he came back from his kidney illness. He did play the game hard. And, he did do community work like 90% of the rest of NBA players.

But he was a major asshole and fucking douche on the court. Seriously, good riddance. You should have retired like 7 years ago when you first got that kidney problem instead of stringing it out like this to get all the "oh he's such a warrior" praise.

I bet you wouldn't be saying that had he been a piston. Fucking asshole.

[JamStone]

Why not? Christian Laettner was a Piston and he was a fucking douche.

I call Rip Hamilton a bitch when he's flopping and whining to officials.

A douche is a douche. Zo is a fucking douche.

[mardigan]

Loved Zo on the Hornets. Great career. Plus, Van Gundy hanging on his leg like a child is one of my favorite highlights of all time.

[SenorSpur]

'Bout time.

[Reck]

Good. Fuck him.

[Chief]

I thought he already did

nah he was gonna workout his body and see if it would cooperate during the offseason, I guess he's not

He still works out I think at the Miami Heat Facility and still had a locker

[ClingingMars]

fXRobvdrdlw

lol, donaghy

-Mars

[Ed Helicopter Jones]

I'm glad to see that DRob's b!tch knew it was time to hang 'em up.


Zo, I'll miss the days of DRob owning you. Aloha!

[timvp]

GTFO.

[Armando]

Great career great player I wished Amare played as hard as Zo did on both ends of the floor.

[JoeTait75]

He was the kind of idiot that would do a fist pump for a successful inbounds pass. I hope everything works out with his kidney, but he was a fucking douche out on the court.

+100

His Heat teams and those Knicks teams set the sport back about a hundred years. Those games were an abomination, and Zo was right in the middle of it.

[Kriz-Maxima]

Good. Fuck him.

[pauls931]

He was a big part of that Miami title team...

[m33p0]

I thought he already did