SLOW RECOVERY GROUNDS K-MART

Kenyon Martin of the Denver
Nuggets.

An off-season knee surgery is what keeping Kenyon Martin away from the hardcourt and not a contract holdout as reported. Martin said the recovery period is taking longer than expected and it is next to impossible to join the Denver Nuggets training camp at this time, according to NBA.com.

“It is physically impossible right now for me to play basketball. If they brought $20 million cash here and put it in my locker, I couldn’t do nothing with it. I would have to give it back because I physically can’t go right now. It’s impossible.

“(The story) tried to make it seem like I never had surgery. That’s what that statement meant to me – like I never had surgery. Like I’m just out here, since I don’t have a contract, I’m just going to sit out until then. That would be a holdout. Totally different. That’s not the case. The question was stated as, ‘Since this is the last year of your contract, do you feel the need to rush back?’ That was the question. And I said, ‘No, I’m not going to rush back. Nobody’s in a hurry to give me a contract, so why would I rush back?’ I said that, but I didn’t say that if I had a contract, I’d be playing right now. I didn’t say that at all.”