Mourning rips Frank and Thorn

<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">In the latest and apparently never ending controversy over Alonzo Mourning's stay in New Jersey, the Heat center now claims Rod Thorn and Lawrence Frank deliberately tried to ruin his health by overplaying him last season. Mourning says the Nets were aware of his fragile condition after kidney transplant surgery and wanted him gone from the team. Thorn blasted Mourning's contention. </div>

What a bunch of crap. He is lucky we didn't dump his ass in the first place. He got to Miami and he plays more minutes there than he played in NJ and he isn't complaining. What a loser.

<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">But he also admits that he refused offers from coach Lawrence Frank to take him out of games, in part because he wanted to prove to the Nets that they couldn't break him.</div>

Yea nice try

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2005/writ...ning/index.html

 

As much as I disrespect the guy and dislike his distasteful and dumb comments, he did say one thing a while back that I think was the only good thing he ever said: He said that he does not want people to feel sorry for him, his condition, etc. I think that that is a very unselfish thing to desire and highly respect that.
EVERYTHING else that that comes out of his mouth is either a contradiction of that or an insult against someone else. This part of him makes me totally despise the guy. He sure has accomplished the goal of not making feel sorry for him, but he has also lost any form of respect that I had for him.

 

What else is new. He just makes himself look like an assclown each time he goes public.

 

Dude I lost so much respect for htis guy when he went to New Jersey. You guys honored him by taking a risk on him with a large contract, then he gets sick again and starts complaining. If he wanted to leave he could have left at any minute if he would have agreed to a buyout but he was too cheap to do it.

 

Mourning is just a clown. In the entire NBA, there probably isn't a character I have less respect for.

 

Honestly, I dont hate Zo like you guys do...because honestly, I think what you can see by all these comments is him showing his dissappoint New Jersey not staying in championship contender status, while he was here.

Think about it for a second, I think he wanted to be a major factor on a championship team....so thats why he is going to be upset with Jersey for ever..because we were his last real shot at doing that...and Rod Thorn pretty much took that away by rebuilding last year. So even though he is on a chip contender now in the eyes of many, it still isnt the same...because he has a very small role and he is playing under study to one of the guys that has kept him from getting a championship in the past and he never really cared for either in Shaq. So his pride will never let him look at the championship ring that he might get with Mami, the way he would have look at the chip in New Jersey....because In New Jersey he would have likely been a full time starter, once he got healthy enough to play alongside K-Mart. And when he came over from Miami, he was looked at as the missing part of what was keeping us from a chip for 2 seasons. So I think that meant alot for the ego of Alonzo Mourning and that type of championship under those conditions, would have meant alot to Mourning. So I think you have to put it in that perspective. I think his hate for the situation is a bit mis-guided...but in certain ways I can under stand why he feels the way he feels.

 

<div class="quote_poster">Quoting shapecity:</div><div class="quote_post">Shaq & Zo continue to bring up the past. I think the media should start referring to them as "Grumpy Old Men."</div>

Because both are happy with their situations and yet unhappy at the same time. Zo never pictured a time where he wouldnt be the man on a championship contending team in Miami...Its the Patrick Ewing snydrome, you know when he said he would never take a lesser role in New York, when the Knicks where looking to go in Camby's direction after Camby helped the Knicks to the finals in '99.....well Zo has pretty much taken that type of role except behind shaq...And in the back of his mind he probably really views himself as Karl Malone in 04 with the Lakers...and I dont care who you are when you are that great like Malone or Zo have been in their careers, you have to feel a bit less as a player when you have to settle for competing for that kind of chip.

And Shaq never picture competing for Chips anywhere but LA...plus LA pretty much chosed Kobe over him despite all the chips his pressence brought. So yeah they are competing for championships, both its not really under the conditions that either's ego pictured in the past.