Kenyon Martin to Sit as Nuggets Determine Severity of Knee Injury

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DENVER -- Kenyon Martin is one of the toughest guys in the NBA. But there are limits to what he can play through.

The Denver Nuggets forward has fought through a very sore knee the past month. But it remains be seen whether he can continue to do that.

"You can play through some of the pain,'' Martin said Saturday. "But when it becomes chronic, then you've got to listen to your body ... I've just been trying to do all I can to help this team win ... It just came to a point where it ain't no fun going out there in warm-ups and you're in pain.''

Martin will not play Sunday against Portland, missing his second straight game due to what the team has called left knee patella tendinitis. It will be the fifth game out of the past 12 that Martin, the backbone of Denver's defense, has sat out due to his left knee.

 

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