<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Expect former Nugget Nick Van Exel to compete hard to win at the beginning of the next NBA season. Whether it's on the hardwood or on a golf course remains to be seen. The Portland Trail Blazers guard said he could retire after this season because of knees that have been "bone on bone" since his second NBA season. But if a winning opportunity presented itself, Van Exel might put up with the pain and keep playing. Van Exel and the struggling Blazers (22-35) play the Nuggets (30-29) tonight at the Pepsi Center. "I've been thinking of (retiring), especially through the tough times with my knee injury from last season," Van Exel said in a recent telephone interview. "I was tired of feeling the way I felt. Losing takes a toll on me." But he would put off retirement </div> Source
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Bba11er08:</div><div class="quote_post">I would retire too if I was in the blazers.</div> Yea,it must be tough to get 13 million dollars a year and tons of chiks to play basketball in a midiocore NBA TEAM!!
If I were NVE I`d still give it another try next year for a different team. Yeah I never would really want to play for Portland, even if it was like the perfect team.
