Say it ain't Zo

He is that crazy

If there is ANYONE in the game of basketball, no - the history of professional sports - who can come back from this, it is Alonzo Mourning.

I wrote this two years ago:

Is Alonzo Mourning the most inspiring athlete of all time?

Yes. This mother fucker is crazy.

Less than two years ago, Zo had one of his kidney’s transplanted and had focal glomerulosclerosis. He was traded four times, and after rightfully refusing to go to Toronto (the graveyard for washed up superstars) he landed back on his old team, which had become Shaq’s team. When the heat were up 20 in his first come back game, the ref had to stop the game because the chants for “Zo” were so loud that no one could hear the whistle. Zo got into the game, blocked a shot and the place went bananas.

I saw him practice a few months ago. He was the first on the floor and the last to leave it. His biceps are bigger than my legs. He blocks people’s heads when he misses their shots.When he retires tomorrow (and now that he has a ring, he has no reason to keep going except the fact that he is crazy), he will retire as probably the most menacing defensive presence in the league.

When he was first drafted by Charlotte, he was forced to play centre because they already had a power forward named Larry Johnson (another UNLV alum, of whom I was a big fan). It wasn’t until he moved onto Miami that he really became the first option, but he never got to be the power forward he was designed to be.

I believe that if Zo had played power-forward like he did at Georgetown behind Dikembe Mutombo (seriously, he has played for every team) he would have had a career that rivaled Karl Malone’s. Except this way, he has a ring, something the Mailman never got. I love Alonzo Mourning even though he played for New Jersey