The following may only be of interest to those interested in the media, but to me, it made Marcus Camby stand out. Then again, when you are an NBA center, you tend to stand out anyway.

It is rather safe to assume that calling the Nuggets 2007-08 season a "trying" one, would not be labeled as farfetched. They had Carmelo's arrest, Nene's Hilario's health scare, Carmelo's "We Quit" comment, and saw their best regular season record in 20 years accepted in town with a yawn.

Through it all, the one player you could almost certainly turn to for a comment was Marcus Camby. When the going got a little tough, the players got going.....as in going right out the door. No talking to the press. We had some questions, they had some other ideas about answering them.

Although, any day I was at practice, the routine for Camby always seemed to be the same. First guy to walk off the court, head towards the exercise room, stop just short, turn around, back to the wall, and answer all of our questions. Carmelo and Allen? Honest answers when they talked ("We Quit") is pretty frank but not always as readily available as Camby. It is something we in the local press appreciated. I mean, yeah, there are guys that would probably talk every day if a microphone was shoved in front of them, but there are only a few people are audience cares to hear from.

To us, the day that Camby left, not only did the Nuggets fans feel disappointed, the media did as well.

See you on Thursday, everybody.

-"z"