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Alonzo Mourning was locked in a low-post slam dance with Milwaukee Bucks
center Ervin Johnson. Referee Joe Crawford kept an eye on the battle, watching
as Mourning put a shoulder into Johnson and tried to move him from the basket,
as if attempting to push a stalled car. "Watch the body," Crawford
warned. "Careful with the body, 'Zo." Mourning, the Miami Heat's
6'10" center, has been getting that advice in various forms ever since
doctors told him last October that he had a form of focal glomerulosclerosis, a
debilitating kidney disease that they expected would sideline him for the entire
2000-01 season and perhaps end his career ... "I never thought it would be
easy," [Mourning said]. "I knew coming back was going to be one of the
biggest challenges in my
life."
--from "Say, Ain't It 'Zo? by Phil Taylor, Sports Illustrated, April 9,
2001
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