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	Alonzo Mourning - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mourning was one of four players to lead an NBA team in four major statistical categories (along with Dana Barros, Hakeem Olajuwon, and Scottie Pippen), ranking first on the team in scoring (21.3 ppg), rebounding (9.9 rpg), blocked shots (2.92 per game), and field goal percentage (.519).
		Mourning re-signed with the Heat on March 1, 2005.
		Mourning's father was present and informed Cooper that Alonzo was retiring that very same day from the NBA because of a life-threatening kidney disease, focal segmental glomerular sclerosis, the same problem that Sean Elliott had in 1999.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alonzo_Mourning (1156 words)

	FosterClub \| Famous Foster Youth - Alonzo Mourning
		Alonzo was given a really hard choice: to live with his mom, Julia, or to live with his dad.
		During the time Alonzo lived with them, there were as many as nine other kids living with his foster parents, but he always felt like part of the family and was treated like one of their own children.
		Alonzo, who suffers from a rare kidney disease, is one of the most charitable sports stars in the country.
	www.fosterclub.com /funstuff/fam_fosterKids/alonzoMourning.cfm (922 words)

	USA Basketball: Bio - Mens - Mourning
		Mourning's memorable buzzer-beater in Game 4 of a first-round series against the Boston Celtics propelled the Hornets into the conference semifinals, making Charlotte the first of the four recent expansion teams to advance beyond the first round of the playoffs.
		Mourning missed the first 22 games of the 1997-98 season because of his knee injury, and also missed two games because of a broken cheekbone, an injury that led him to wear a protective mask for the final seven games of the season.
		Mourning and his wife Tracy have a son, Alonzo III and are expecting their second child in mid- September.
	www.usabasketball.com /biosmen/alonzo_mourning_bio.html (1032 words)

	Mourning's rebound - The Boston Globe
		Alonzo Mourning tried to approach the whirlwind of recruiting without any preconceived ideas about where he should go.
		Mourning's contract is up this summer, and if the Heat win a championship, he might retire.
		Two seasons later, Mourning was in the prime of his career when he was diagnosed with focal glomerulosclerosis, a serious kidney ailment that would require him to undergo a transplant.
	www.boston.com /sports/basketball/articles/2006/06/19/mournings_rebound (883 words)

	Alonzo Mourning, Center for the Miami Heat
		Mourning, also known as 'Zo,' is 31 years old, 6'10," and 258 lbs.
		This week, Mourning was able to return to the Heat because his doctors felt his condition was stable.
		After his return, Mourning said he was feeling stiff and sore, but he was downplaying all the attention he was receiving.
	www.webmd.com /content/pages/11/1676_52691.htm (865 words)

	USATODAY.com - Mourning intends to leave NBA on own terms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Mourning, who was forced to miss the 2002-2003 NBA season with a kidney ailment, was at the University of Chicago Hospitals to speak with patients as part of an educational campaign called Rebound from Anemia.
		Mourning was diagnosed with focal segmental glomerulosclerosis in October 2000, and missed most of that season before making a surprising return.
		Mourning would not speculate whether he would be back with the Heat next year, or for how much money he might sign for next season given the questions about his health.
	www.usatoday.com /sports/basketball/nba/heat/2003-03-26-mourning_x.htm (535 words)

	BlackNews.com - Alonzo Mourning Donates Entire Salary to Charity
		Miami, FL -- Alonzo Mourning is donating his Miami Heat salary for this season to charities that serve the city's underprivileged youth and help poor kidney patients.
		Mourning, whose basketball career was interrupted by bouts of kidney disease, received a transplant in December 2003.
		Mourning said last week that his main goal in donating his Heat salary is to publicize the work being done by a variety of organizations in South Florida.
	www.blacknews.com /pr/alonzo101.html (255 words)

	ESPN.com: NBA - Nets welcome Mourning's post presence, toughness
		EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. Alonzo Mourning signed Wednesday with the New Jersey Nets, who are hoping the one-time Miami star will provide the inside game they need to compete with the best teams in the NBA's Western Conference.
		Mourning said the opportunity to play with Jason Kidd and the chance to win an NBA title were the main factors in his decision to sign with New Jersey.
		Mourning, a seven-time All-Star, sat out the entire 2002-03 season due to a kidney ailment, but Nets officials are confident Mourning's health has improved enough to justify adding him to their roster.
	espn.go.com /nba/news/2003/0716/1581452.html (536 words)

	Boston.com / Sports / Basketball / Alonzo Mourning attends Nets game (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Mourning said he is feeling better since receiving a kidney from a cousin on Dec. 19 at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center.
		Mourning, who was visited in the hospital by teammates, went to the Nets' practice facility Wednesday.
		Mourning retired on Nov. 24 because of complications from the kidney disease focal segmental glomerulosclerosis.
	www.boston.com /sports/basketball/articles/2004/03/19/alonzo_mourning_attends_nets_game_1079686016?mode=PF (544 words)

	Alonzo Mourning : USAToday.com - Alonzo Mourning Biography from USAToday.com
		Alonzo Mourning hopes to be in a Heat uniform when they open their season on Halloween night with a visit from the Chicago Bulls.
		Mourning should be returning to the Heat, but they're still working on details of his contract, which is said to be more than the league minimum.
		ET ESPN is reporting that Alonzo Mourning is preparing to return to the Heat.
	fantasybasketball.usatoday.com /content/player.asp?sport=NBA&id=243 (402 words)

	Northwest Kidney Centers CEO joins Alonzo Mourning for Kickoff Legislation to Improve Kidney Care (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Basketball legend Alonzo Mourning was on Capitol Hill Wednesday, July 7, at an event to support new legislation aimed at helping hundreds of thousands of Americans who suffer from kidney failure and who rely on Medicare for life-saving dialysis treatments.
		Media were invited to attend Mourning's visit to a D.C. dialysis clinic with patients and staff on Wednesday, July 7, from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m., followed by a reception with bipartisan members of the House and Senate to introduce new legislation to modernize the Medicare End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) benefit.
		Mourning, who suffered from kidney failure and underwent a kidney transplant in 2003, has been an outspoken advocate for the growing numbers of patients with kidney disease.
	www.nwkidney.org /home/alonzomourning.html (560 words)

	StarIQ.com - Alonzo Mourning
		Mourning is not the first NBA player to succumb to focal glomerulosclerosis, a disease that impairs the kidneys’ ability to properly filter the blood.
		Mourning shone at the Olympics, and the six-foot ten-inch center matured in the public eye, evolving from the foul-mouthed NBA bad boy of yore into a lovable husband and father.
		Alonzo Mourning is an Aquarius, born on February 8, 1970, in Chesapeake, VA. Currently, Uranus, the planet of the unexpected, ruling shocking developments and all manner of surprises, has been transiting back and forth over Mourning’s Aquarius Sun.
	www.stariq.com /pagetemplate/article-printer.asp?pageid=1675 (1024 words)

	ESPN.com - NBA - Mourning needs kidney transplant, NBA career over (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Alonzo had been the cornerstone of the Heat organization for eight years and continues to be a role model in the Miami community.
		The disease was detected in Mourning in 2000, while he was with the Miami Heat and shortly after the 6-foot-10 center helped the U.S. team win the gold medal at the Olympics.
		Mourning averaged 8 points and 2.3 rebounds in 17.9 minutes for the two-time defending Eastern Conference champions, who have struggled this season, posting a 5-7 record.
	sports.espn.go.com /nba/news/story?id=1669704 (1137 words)

	USATODAY.com - A season of mourning without Mourning? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Mourning was diagnosed in October 2000 with focal segmental glomerulosclerosis, a career-threatening kidney disease.
		Mourning has acknowledged that his prognosis is uncertain, knowing that dialysis or a kidney transplant might be needed.
		Mourning is to make $20.6 million this season in the final year of a seven-year, $105-million contract, leaving Riley with few options other than to play out the season without what he has and begin rebuilding next summer.
	www.usatoday.com /sports/basketball/nba/heat/2002-09-12-mourning-out_x.htm (656 words)

	cbs4.com - Miami Heat Re-Sign Alonzo Mourning (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Mourning played last season for the veterans' minimum salary of about $1.1 million; the new deal was not expected to be significantly different.
		Mourning, who underwent a kidney transplant in December 2003, announced July 15 that he would be back in Miami for his 14th NBA season.
		Mourning, a seven-time All-Star, is Miami's all-time leader in games played (491), blocked shots (1,405), free throws made (2,328) and free throws attempted (3,512).
	cbs4.com /topstories/local_story_230193708.html (424 words)

	Alonzo Mourning ends NBA career - Nov. 25, 2003
		Mourning never won an NBA title or played in the NBA Finals but was a member of the 2000 gold medal United States Olympic Team.
		Mourning played a total of 88 games over the next two seasons, but was unable to perform any longer at an All-Star level and the Heat sunk in the standings as a result.
		With Mourning seen as the missing piece in the championship puzzle, the Nets planned to have him split time in the middle with Jason Collins and serve as a mentor to power forward Kenyon Martin.
	www.inq7.net /spo/2003/nov/25/spo_4-1.htm (589 words)

	Anxious days - Alonzo Mourning, basketball player Sporting News, The - Find Articles
		Alonzo Mourning, the NBA Defensive Player of the Year the past two seasons, the third-place finisher in last season's vote for Most Valuable Player, the soul of Riley's franchise, had yet to make it to camp.
		Mourning appeared bloated and fatigued at the Heat's media day, although most attributed that to his arrival from Australia a day earlier.
		Based on the collective-bargaining agreement and the size of Mourning's contract, which is due to pay him $16.9 million this season, the Heat would be allowed to add a salary at 108 percent of the average league salary.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1208/is_42_224/ai_66456093 (889 words)

	AskMen.com - Alonzo Mourning
		Mourning was the second pick overall in the 1992 draft, and many would argue that he lived up to the hype.
		Mourning was the league's Defensive Player of the Year in 1999 and 2000.
		Mourning didn't want to retire but did so for the sake of his long-term health, and with good reason.
	www.askmen.com /sports/business_60/98c_sports_business.html (904 words)

	USATODAY.com - Alonzo Mourning blocks anemia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		By Mike Falcon and John Morgan, Spotlight Health, with medical adviser Stephen A. Shoop, M.D. Alonzo Mourning's NBA career is a highlight reel of multiple all-star appearances, roof-top rebounding, and determined shot-blocking.
		For Mourning, undergoing treatment for kidney disease, his exhaustion was especially worrisome.
		Mourning's anemia was corrected by taking Procrit (epoetin alfa), often used in patients with kidney failure and other serious diseases where the kidneys are threatened — such as cancer chemotherapy or HIV/AIDS.
	www.usatoday.com /news/health/spotlighthealth/2003-04-08-mourning_x.htm (1194 words)

	Alonzo Mourning longing for the more-physical NBA days
		MIAMI (AP) - Alonzo Mourning wasn't enthused when Miami centre Shaquille O'Neal was sent flying out of bounds by Dallas' Jerry Stackhouse in Game 4 of the NBA final.
		Mourning was, and is, no stranger to intense contact around the rim.
		Mourning was in a good mood, of course, after the Game 4 win - but the sage in the Miami locker-room was quick to caution teammates that two victories in the NBA finals means little.
	www.cbc.ca /cp/nba/060616/v061652.html (639 words)

	Mourning returns to Heat
		Mourning, who practised with his new teammates on Tuesday, is expected to earn about $325,000 US for the remainder of the 2004-05 campaign.
		Mourning, who had a kidney transplant on Dec. 19, 2003, claimed he stopped playing this season because of hand, hip, knee and leg injuries but also openly criticized New Jersey's off-season moves and demanded a trade to a contender.
		Mourning is a lifetime 52.3 per cent shooter and has averaged 19.7 points, 9.6 rebounds, 2.9 blocks, 1.3 assists and 34.4 minutes in 652 NBA games (620 starts).
	www.cbc.ca /sports/story/2005/03/01/mourning050301.html (1293 words)

	BlackNews.com - Basketball Star Alonzo Mourning Spreads The Word About Kidney Disease
		Since then, Mourning has made a triumphant return to the National Basketball Association (NBA), and now he will visit clinics throughout the United States with Rebound from Anemia, a program designed to provide information about chronic kidney disease and its signs and symptoms to the millions of people with the condition and those at risk.
		Many people, including Mourning before his diagnosis, do not realize that they have chronic kidney disease, or are at risk for developing it, until they have reached advanced stages of the condition.
		Through Rebound from Anemia, Mourning hopes to motivate people to take action by evaluating if they are at risk for chronic kidney disease, and by identifying common signs and symptoms often associated with the condition.
	www.blacknews.com /pr/kidneydisease201.html (1008 words)

	ESPN.com - Dick Vitale - vcolumn031124Mourning
		I was so sad when I learned Monday that Alonzo Mourning's basketball career has come to such an abrupt end.
		Coach Pat Riley and Alonzo Mourning defined the Miami Heat in the latter half of the 1990s.
		He was all about getting the W! It started as a high-school player and went on to his Georgetown days and then on to the NBA with the then-Charlotte Hornets, Miami Heat and the New Jersey Nets.
	espn.go.com /dickvitale/vcolumn031124Mourning.html (389 words)

	Alonzo Mourning to Get Kidney Transplant
		Mourning retired from the New Jersey Nets on Nov. 24 on the advice of his doctor because of focal glomerulosclerosis, a kidney disorder.
		Although Mourning did not feel sick, Appel said Mourning needed a transplant within a few months or he would have to go on dialysis, according to published reports.
		Mourning was in the first year of a four-year, $22 million contract with the Nets when he retired.
	www.webmd.com /content/article/78/95902.htm (676 words)

	NephCure Ambassador and NBA Star Alonzo Mourning Speaks to the New York Daily News About his Battle with FSGS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Mourning was diagnosed with focal segmental glomerulosclerosis in 2000.
		"And as soon as he said that, the news flash came across the hospital TV in her room: 'Alonzo Mourning is retiring because of kidney failure.'" Cooper knew plenty about what Mourning was going through — his own father had often talked about an uncle who died of kidney disease in the 1960s.
		Mourning suffered one rejection episode after the procedure but Appel was able to treat it successfully.
	www.nephcure.org /NYDaily_alonzo.htm (1513 words)

	Free Throw Helps Heat Hold Off the Nets - New York Times
		Miami Heat center Alonzo Mourning, who has built a reputation for his unrelenting passion, did not shy away from anyone who charged into the lane Monday night, even though Nets players dunked on him four times.
		Mourning's presence allowed Heat guard Dwyane Wade to block Carter's shot from the side as time expired for a 90-89 victory at American Airlines Arena.
		Mourning said afterward that he gave his teammates a chance to "roast me because that was the first time in my career that I've been dunked on in a game four times."
	www.nytimes.com /2005/11/08/sports/basketball/08nets.html?ex=1289106000&en=f25ab804a4d90d3a&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss (606 words)

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