(http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/teams/mia/)Miami Heat (http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/teams/mia/) center (http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/teams/mia/)Alonzo Mourning (http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/players/845/), arguably the most significant player in the franchise's 20 seasons, suffered a torn patella tendon in his right knee in the first quarter of Wednesday night's 117-111 overtime loss to the (http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/teams/mia/)Atlanta Hawks (http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/teams/atl/). "I went over to help him up and he just said, 'It's over. It's over,' " Miami power forward (http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/teams/mia/)Udonis Haslem (http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/players/3765/) said.

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Severe knee injury ends Mourning's career - Rumors - NBA - Yahoo! Sports (http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/rumors/post/Severe-knee-injury-ends-Mourning-s-career;_ylt=AlbQTGHB7m21ELmvOi5bbFOkvLYF?urn=nba,5 8692)

Severe knee injury ends Mourning's career - Rumors - NBA - Yahoo! Sports (http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/rumors/post/Severe-knee-injury-ends-Mourning-s-career;_ylt=AlbQTGHB7m21ELmvOi5bbFOkvLYF?urn=nba,5 8692)

This would be really sad. Mourning has been a guy I always loved to hate. He's done a lot in Miami, especially coming back when many doubted that he'd be able to play again. But being his age, it is not difficult to see how his career could end this way.

When it rains it pours. The Heat are on their way to a lottery pick.

That's a bad way for his career to end.

Well, at least he got a championship. That's something Barkley, Malone and Stockton can't say.

Well, at least he got a championship. That's something Barkley, Malone and Stockton can't say.

Very true. A sad ending for a great player. Now the Heat can finally retire a jersey of one of their OWN players.

(The only jersey they have hanging from their rafters is Michael Jordan's Bulls jersey. I know, right?)

Very true. A sad ending for a great player. Now the Heat can finally retire a jersey of one of their OWN players.

(The only jersey they have hanging from their rafters is Michael Jordan's Bulls jersey. I know, right?)

I thought that they had Miguel Cabrera's jersey hanging there. LOL

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Can we trade Flip Jr. and Herrmann for Mourning. Since he aint gonna play anyway, seems as if we can unload Flip and free up a roster spot. We could then just waive Mourning and if we chose to, sign Chris Webber, not that I'm saying we should do that. This also gives Flip Jr. a chance to get some run for another squad, dude is a FA this summer.

Can we trade Flip Jr. and Herrmann for Mourning. Since he aint gonna play anyway, seems as if we can unload Flip and free up a roster spot. We could then just waive Mourning and if we chose to, sign Chris Webber, not that I'm saying we should do that. This also gives Flip Jr. a chance to get some run for another squad, dude is a FA this summer.
And then have Hermann heat up and Miami beat Pistons in the playoffs on the strength of his 3-point shooting and Wade averaging 30 free throws per game?

And then have Hermann heat up and Miami beat Pistons in the playoffs on the strength of his 3-point shooting and Wade averaging 30 free throws per game?

OK, Flip & Primo then for Mourning + a filler. Now if those two swing the momentum from us to Miami, then we dont deserve to win a Title. In actuality that trade makes a ton of sense, that would take our roster to 13, get us further under the lux cap, allow for a Webber (Only for insurance) resign. We could then have Herrmann and Hunter rotate on the inactive list from game to game. Mia gets a back up center and another guard, I mean for heaven's sake Chris Quinn is their starting PG!!!!! ROTFL!!!!!!:pound::pound::pound::pound::pound:

OK, Flip & Primo then for Mourning + a filler. Now if those two swing the momentum from us to Miami, then we dont deserve to win a Title. In actuality that trade makes a ton of sense, that would take our roster to 13, get us further under the lux cap, allow for a Webber (Only for insurance) resign. We could then have Herrmann and Hunter rotate on the inactive list from game to game. Mia gets a back up center and another guard, I mean for heaven's sake Chris Quinn is their starting PG!!!!! ROTFL!!!!!!:pound::pound::pound::pound::pound:
You know what's more funny is there is a question in my mind as far as whether Flip would be an upgrade over Quinn. :pound:

Riley has too much class to not let Zo retire as a Heat. Thats where he started his career.

Actually Zo was drafted by the Hornets and played several years for them before he first went to Miami.

I liked what ZO brought to the game and to the lockerroom. He'll be missed.........

I am in mourning over Mourning this morning.

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I am in mourning over Mourning this morning.

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You're a poet and you didn't even realize it.

You're a poet and you didn't even realize it.

Now here was a great poet and writer.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/43/CharlesBukowski.jpg/200px-CharlesBukowski.jpg



Born August 16 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_16), 1920 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1920)(1920-08-16) Andernach (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andernach), Germany (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany)
Died March 9 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_9), 1994 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994) (aged 73)San Pedro, California (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Pedro%2C_California)
Occupation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Employment) Novelist (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novelist), Poet (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poet)
Nationality (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationality) American (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States)
Influences Anton Chekhov (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Chekhov), James Thurber (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Thurber), Franz Kafka (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Kafka), Knut Hamsun (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knut_Hamsun), Ernest Hemingway (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Hemingway), John Fante (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Fante), Louis-Ferdinand Céline (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis-Ferdinand_C%C3%A9line), Robinson Jeffers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robinson_Jeffers), Fyodor Dostoyevsky (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fyodor_Dostoyevsky), D.H. Lawrence (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D.H._Lawrence), Ezra Pound (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezra_Pound), Conrad Aiken (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conrad_Aiken), Sherwood Anderson (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherwood_Anderson)
Influenced Billy Childish (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Childish)Know who he is?
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Modest Mouse wrote a song about him.

"Bukowski"

http://http://www.seeklyrics.com/lyrics/Modest-Mouse/Bukowski.html

Modest Mouse wrote a song about him.

"Bukowski"

http://http://www.seeklyrics.com/lyrics/Modest-Mouse/Bukowski.html

Bukowski lived in Venice CA from 67 - 71.

When I was married to my first wife in the early eighties we used to hang out a lot at Venice and Bukowski was still extremely popular there. He actually became kind of a cult figure in certain Venice circles.

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of course this only happens after i pick him up on my fantasy team.

which player do we want to go down next? just waive him and i'll pick him up!

Zo is probably one of my most disliked players - the stupid flexes and grimaces and 'look at my tough face', etc, but this isn't the way he should end his career. It should have been defeated in the playoffs at the hands of the Pistons.

Wart - I suggest you pick up Mark Blunt. His value just skyrocketed from zero to slightly more than zero. :MusicBigGrin:

I don't like him a lot, but you gotta respect the comback from the kidney transplant. He's gotta be taking those nasty anti-rejection drugs on a daily basis so that his body doesn't turn against that organ.

Last thing he needed was another surgery.

I like the way he plays, just not his facial expressions.

I will miss him. I am not a fan of his either, but he was a very tough guy. I am sure everyone thought it would be kidney problems that would force him to retire, not a freak knee injury.

One thing about those Hoya big men (Mourning, Ewing, Mutumbo) they got/get slammed on (posterized) quite a bit.

That`s really what I will most most about Mourning.......:MusicBigGrin: