<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">In the mirror, Kenyon Martin sees a loving father and a future NBA all-star. He knows many people see him as everything that's wrong with the Nuggets. "I'm going to rub some people the wrong way. And I don't mind that. I don't care. I don't care, you know what I'm saying?" Martin said Tuesday. "I'm going to be Kenyon. I'm not going to change. "I'm not going to change the way I play the game of basketball. I'm going to still scream, yell, cuss, whatever it is I do on that basketball court. Because that's what got me here. And if I change that, I wouldn't be Kenyon." For $93 million, the Nuggets bought a mountain of regrets when they obtained the 6-foot-9 power forward in a 2004 trade with New Jersey. K-Mart was gonna make this Denver team a contender. Instead, he made a mess. Hobbling on a brittle knee, arguing with hecklers, feuding with coach George Karl and giving the Nuggets 93 million reasons to part ways with general manager Kiki Vandeweghe, Martin became the face of a dysfunctional franchise. Last season, before the Nuggets got run out of the playoffs all red-faced, Martin was kicked off the team in disgrace by Karl for insubordination, as punishment for the veteran's angry outburst during halftime of first-round playoff game in Los Angeles. Some would say K-Mart inflicted a mortal wound on his reputation that contentious night. Nah, insists, Martin. "My reputation can't take no hit. It can't. I've always had a reputation of being fiery or got an attitude or whatever. So it couldn't take no hit. It probably made me look bad for a few months. But I've looked bad before in the league," Martin said. </div> Source
