Mourning's career may be dawning

Alonzo Mourning is one of those guys that every owner should want to have on their teams. He's a great guy, a team player, and is arguably one of the toughest who have played the game. Who else has been able to take the black'n'blue season of the NBA after getting a kidney transplant? How many people have EVER been able to do something grueling after such a major surgery?

I'm waiting...

Well, even so, at 37 years of age and still playing, it may be all over. In the Miami Heat's loss to the Atlanta Hawks, Mourning went down hard and he immediately knew something was wrong:

"I went over to help him up and he just said, 'It's over. It's over,' " Miami power forward Udonis Haslem said.

He has a torn patella tendon (doesn't that just sound nasty??) and it could take almost six months of post-surgery recovery time. For someone at this stage of his career, he may never play again--but don't rule 'Zo out--this has been said before and he's obviously proved the naysayers wrong.

Here's to Mourning's successful recovery--we need more guys like him in the NBA.

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