<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">There was a good story that got lost in all the Chris Webber saga. After the Lakers? shootaround Friday, forward Ronny Turiaf met for a half-hour with 16-year-old Garylee Zuniga of Aztec, N.M. Zuniga suffers from a serious heart defect; Turiaf underwent surgery in July 2005 to repair an enlarged aortic root. ``For me, it was such a pleasure sharing my story with a kid like that because he's looking up to us as NBA players,'' Turiaf said. ``For me to help him out, to just relieve some pressure and some sadness out of him, was a definite pleasure for me.'' Turiaf didn't hesitate in giving Zuniga his phone number as well. ``When you go through something like that, you've got to have somebody to talk to,'' Turiaf said. ``It was the same thing with me and (former Minnesota guard) Fred Hoiberg. If I didn't have him, it would have been so tough for me to go through it on a daily basis.</div> Read More...
