And we thought the Celtic's sportswriters are tough....

[Mark Estepp <EsteppJM@appstate.edu>]

 From TSN....
Mercer a CANCER???  No defense, sometimes lacking focus, yes, but a cancer?
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Stephen Siegel
                    The Sporting News

                    Don’t look now, but the Nuggets are a pretty good
                    team; better, in fact, than they were before trading
                    their leading scorer last week. Put them in the
                    Eastern Conference and they’re in the playoffs,
                    without a doubt.

                    But unfortunately for Denver, the team is in the
                    West and would need a miracle to avoid being a
                    lottery team once again.

                    By all accounts, the trade of locker-room cancer
                    and free agent-to-be Ron Mercer—along with
                    throw-ins Chauncey Billups and Johnny Taylor—to
                    Orlando for Tariq Abdul-Wahad and Chris Gatling
                    was a great move for Denver. Mercer may have
                    been the team’s top scorer, but he rarely played
                    defense and often lost focus