He played just 12 games in 2003 before his kidney transplant. He returned last October disgruntled. By December, Mourning had made himself into what the Nets' president, Rod Thorn, termed a distraction.
Mourning's surliness over his situation only festered. And then his body began to break down, not from the kidney transplant, but because he was unable to bear the pounding without taking anti-inflammatory medication.
Mourning shot back at Thorn on Thursday, calling it unfair for Thorn to offer a cryptic statement about the last three games Mourning missed with injury before being traded to Toronto.
RSS