Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/11/21/Alonzo_Mourning_Resilience_Faith_Triumph
Former NBA star Alonzo Mourning shares his personal triumph over the life-threatening kidney disease focal segmental glomerulosclerosis. Regarding his ability to draw strength from crisis, Mourning states that “in every adversity there is a seed of equivalent benefit.”
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Alonzo Mourning is a former NBA Champion and Georgetown Hoya. He graduated Georgetown in 1992 after playing four years of basketball and was the #2 pick in the draft that year.
Throughout his career, he played for the Charlotte Hornets, New Jersey Nets, and Miami Heat, with whom he won a championship in 2006. He also won a gold medal in the 2000 Olympics in Sydney.
In 2000, Mourning was diagnosed with focal segmental glomerulosclerosis, a kidney disease that eventually necessitated a kidney transplant in 2003.
His new book, Resilience: Faith, Focus, Triumph, describes the numerous battles he faced in his life, and how he overcame them to end up where he is today – Georgetown University
Alonzo Mourning is a graduate of Georgetown University where he played basketball. He was selected second overall in the 1992 NBA Draft by the Charlotte Hornets, behind Shaquille O’Neal. Mourning is a seven-time NBA All-Star and two-time NBA Defensive Player of the Year. He played for the Miami Heat, Boston Celtics, New Jersey Nets, and in the 2000 Olympics. Prior the start of the 2000-01 season with the Heat, Mourning was diagnosed with focal segmental glomerulosclerosis, a disease of the kidneys.
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full respect
full respect
well you may be …
well you may be right, but i also think that if you were to compare a picture of him at the beginning of his career to when he was in his prime, you would see a marked difference. it’s possible that he just worked out better in the NBA and that accounts for all of it, but… he mysteriously comes down with a liver disease at like 29 years old?
Wow. What a man.
Wow. What a man.
I know that …
I know that steroids are rampant in pro sports, and you may be right, but Zo never went through the unexplained bulking up that Bonds did. I give the man a pass, innocent until proven guilty.
had he not been on …
had he not been on roids, he wouldn’t have been sick. a top specimen of the physical man, and suddenly he has a kidney problem. That’s why he didn’t ask “why me?” He knew why. He asked “why now” because he was roiding to improve his career not cut it short. conjecture perhaps, but makes sense to me.
Great speech. There …
Great speech. There was a certain power and meaning behind his words. You didn’t just hear it… you felt it and understood.
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